A traditional treatment by plants with L. can induce an intravascular haemolysis in patients with a glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. This information is poorly diffused in areas where the plant grows, where it is consumed for ethnomedicinal purpose and where G6PD deficiency prevalence is high; as a consequence, the probability of haemolytic accidents is presumably underestimated. It seems frequent in Mayotte according to local recent data reporting. Such accidents were previously only, and on a rare basis, reported in Sri Lanka. It seems necessary, at least in Mayotte, to inform patients, or the patients' relatives, about the potential risk in case of using traditional medicine by plants, in addition to all other circumstances able to induce haemolysis in G6PD deficiency.

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