COVID-19 pandemic and methanol poisoning outbreak in Iranian children and adolescents: A data linkage study.

Seyed Amirhosein Mahdavi Ali-Asghar Kolahi Maryam Akhgari Farzad Gheshlaghi Narges Gholami Mohammad Moshiri Neda Mohtasham Sara Ebrahimi Pardis Ziaeefar Rebecca McDonald Basak Tas Amir Mohammad Kazemifar Alireza Amirabadizadeh Mohammadreza Ghadirzadeh Farkhondeh Jamshidi Bita Dadpour Seyyed Davood Mirtorabi Fariba Farnaghi Nasim Zamani Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam

Published in: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research (2021)

The Iranian methanol poisoning outbreak during the first wave of COVID-19 was associated with significantly increased hospitalization rates among children and adolescents-including at least six pediatric in-hospital deaths from poisoning. Public awareness needs to be raised of the risks associated with ingesting alcoholic hand sanitizers.

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