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Don’t Eat Those Berries!

By Jason Hack, MD | on June 13, 2022 | 0 Comment
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Pediatric Lantana camara ingestions reported to Texas poison centers.

Forrester, Mathias B; Petty, Lizbeth. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine; Philadelphia Vol. 38, Iss. 11,  (Nov 2020): 2456-2457.

Morton, J. F. (1994). Lantana, or Red Sage (Lantana camara L., [Verbenaceae]), Notorious Weed and Popular Garden Flower; Some Cases of Poisoning in Florida. Economic Botany, 48(3), 259–270.

Wolfson SL, Solomons TWG. Poisoning by Fruit of Lantana Camara: An Acute Syndrome Observed In Children Following Ingestion of The Green Fruit. Am J Dis Child. 1964;107(2):173–176.

Dr. Hack is chief of the division of medical toxicology and vice chair for research at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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Jason Hack, MD

Dr. Hack (Oleander Photography) is chief of the division of medical toxicology and vice chair for research at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He enjoys taking photographs of beautiful toxic, medicinal, and benign flowers that he stumbles upon or grows in his garden. Contact him at ToxInRI@gmail.com, www.toxinRI.com, or on Instagram @oleanderphotography.

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