Methemoglobinemia without hemolytic anemia following exposure to naphthalene moth balls

• Main Authors: Snehamayee Nayak (Author), Jyotiranjan Satpathy (Author), Bijaylaxmi Mallick (Author), Mangal Charan Murmu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mothballs are commonly used household product that contain an aromatic hydrocarbon named naphthalene. On systemic exposure it causes oxidant injury to hemoglobin molecules resulting in oxidized forms of hemoglobin like methaemoglobin and further hemoglobinuria. Most commonly naphthalene poisoning ca...