Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1

Acute olanzapine toxicity in a toddler

  • Author:
  • Hemendra Singh1,, Sahana Amarnath Boggaram2, Mamatha Krishna Murthy3, ATK Rau4
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 46 to 47

1Department of Psychiatry, MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

2Department of Pharmacy Practice, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

3Department of Pharmacy Practice, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

4Department of Paediatrics, MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

*Correspondence Dr. Hemendra Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, MS Ramaiah Medical College, MS Ramaiah Nagar, MSRIT Post, Bangalore-560054, Karnataka, India. hemendradoc2010@gmail.com

Online published on 7 April, 2020.

Abstract

Olanzapine is an antipsychotic medication, which is approved for treatment of psychiatric illnesses among various age groups of psychiatric patients. Accidental consumption of olanzapine is uncommon among the paediatric age group. We report a case of accidental consumption of 15 tablets of olanzapine (5 mg each) in a two-year-old boy. It is important that clinicians are made aware of these reports of an overdose of olanzapine.

Keywords

Antipsychotic. Accidental. Paediatric