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Cardiac and respiratory arrest in a 12-year-old girl with acute permethrin oral toxicity: A case report.

Hesam Adin AtashiHamid Zaferani AraniFelicia AgathaSeyyed Mojtaba GhoraniMahya Sadat Teimouri KhorasaniMasoumeh Moalem
Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)
Permethrin (PER) is widely employed as the most frequently used type I synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. Despite its worldwide application, reports of pediatric toxicity following permethrin administration are scarce. The present report describes the case of a 12-year-old girl with cardiac and respiratory arrest resulting from self-induced oral toxicity by permethrin.
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