Alcohol intoxication in hospitalized young teenagers.

The scientific literature concerning alcohol intoxication is enormous. However, less is known of alcohol-induced disturbances in children and adolescents and most of those reports concern cases of hypoglycemia in children under five years of age. We studied the clinical status and chemistry, especially acid-base balance, in 36 young teenagers treated at hospital for alcohol intoxication.

Hospitalizations due to poisonings in Finland.

Poisonings constitute an important category of causes for admission of patients to the emergency room. The annual incidence of hospitalized poisonings in Finland over 2 years (1987-1988) was 11.7 for a population of 10,000 according to the Hospital Discharge Register; it was 8.

Medical charcoal for a child's poisoning at home: availability and success of administration in Finland.

In a prospective study, 174 families were interviewed over the telephone to find out whether the treatment of their child's poisoning with medical charcoal was successfully completed. The majority (103; 59.2%) of the families had no charcoal at home.

Acid-base balance in alcohol users seen in an emergency room.

Over 10% of emergency room patients are diagnosed as having alcohol (6.0%) or drug intoxication. In the present study 196 alcohol intoxications treated in a hospital were studied retrospectively; 49.

Acute alcohol intoxications in children treated in hospital.

Cases of alcohol intoxication in children are common; they are encountered every day in Finland. Studies other than case studies of alcohol intoxication in children are few. Metabolic acidosis was a frequent finding in juvenile alcohol intoxication.