Paraquat Poisoning in Clinical and Medico-Legal Perspective a Case Report and Over View

Paraquat commonly used as weedicide is chemically known as 1, 1?-dimethyl-4, 4?-dipyridylium is associated with both accidental and suicidal ingetion leading to severe and often fatal toxicity. Reports of herbicide poisoning in India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history, nonspecific clinical features, and lack of diagnostic tests and time lapse between consumption and detection in blood or urine as it is concentrated mostly in lungs and kidneys making reports of analytical toxicology not dependable. We report a case of fatal paraquat poisoning from a tertiary care hospital, Eluru, West Godavari, and Andhra Pradesh, India.