1.Acute Renal Failure due to Potassium Bromate Poisoning.
Seung Heon OH ; Ho Yung LEE ; Suk Ho CHUNG ; Chang Jin KIM ; In Joon CHOI
Yonsei Medical Journal 1980;21(2):106-109
Poisoning due to potassium bromate, cold wave neutralizer for permanent waving solution in hair styling, is rarely encountered and only few cases are as a cause of acute renal failure reported in medical literature. Recently, we saw a 18 year-old-female patient, hair stylist, who was admitted to Severance Hospital due to acute renal failure after accidental ingestion of potassium bromate. This is the first known case of acute renal failure due to potassium bromate poisoning in Korea.
Adolescent
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Bromates/poisoning*
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Bromine/poisoning*
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Female
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Hair Preparations/poisoning*
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Human
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Kidney Failure, Acute/chemically induced*
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Kidney Failure, Acute/diagnosis
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Korea
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Potassium/poisoning
2.Hearing and Visual Loss with Renal Failure Due to Sodium Bromate Poisoning.
Jeong Jo JEONG ; Woo Chul CHUNG ; Yoon Hee CHOI ; Kyung Ah YOH ; Tak Yong KIM ; Kyung Su PARK ; Jong Min LEE ; Dong Chan JIN ; Yoon Sik CHANG ; Byung Kee BANG
Korean Journal of Nephrology 1997;16(4):824-827
Hair neutralizer in home permanent cold wave kits contains a 2% to 10% potassium or sodium bromate, which is colorless, odorless and tasteless solution. Bromate salts are extremely toxic oxidants. The reported toxic effects of bromates poisoning are vomiting, diarrhea, depression of central nervous system, oliguric acute renal failure, sensorineural hearing loss, peripheral neuropathy and hemolytic anemia. Deafness seems to be almost permanent. In many cases, the recovery of renal function is not complete and some of them are transformed to chronic renal failure and maintained on hemodialysis. Since the serious side effects of deafness and acute renal filure usually occur within 4-16 h after ingestion, prompt removal of the bromate from blood by peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis, which are proven method of removal, should be performed immediately. Recently, we encountered a 37 year old female hairdresser who was admitted to St. Mary Hospital due to oligura, hearing loss and visual loss after ingestion of sodium bromate. The patient required regular hemodialysis therapy and no recovery of hearing and visual loss was evident up to 8 month follow up.
Acute Kidney Injury
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Adult
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Anemia, Hemolytic
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Bromates
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Central Nervous System
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Deafness
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Depression
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Diarrhea
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Eating
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Female
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Follow-Up Studies
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Hair
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Hearing Loss
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Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
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Hearing*
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Humans
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Kidney Failure, Chronic
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Oxidants
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
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Peritoneal Dialysis
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Poisoning*
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Potassium
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Renal Dialysis
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Renal Insufficiency*
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Salts
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Sodium*
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Vomiting