1Dept of Paediatrics, KPC Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata
2Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata
3Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Hi-Tech Medical College, Kolkata
*Author for correspondence: Email: somnath1976@rediffmail.com
Online published on 4 April, 2015.
Loxapine overdose is a rare toxicological emergency. This case report deals with an 8-year-old girl presenting in stuporous condition. She was provisionally diagnosed as suffering from acute menigoencephalitis and treated accordingly. Detailed history later revealed that it was a case of inadvertent loxapine succinate administration in place of lactulose.
The patient was treated on the lines of neuroleptic malignant syndrome, after which she improved and was discharged eleven days later.
Loxapine succinate, Lactulose, Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
