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Lindano also see: Lindano1; LINDANO2; LINDANO3

Description
He is organoclorado that was used like insecticide in the cane cultures of sugar, tobacco and other products.

To the date, in Mexico its sale is prohibited and use in any culture, nevertheless is continued using in prepared for the processing of the lice in the hairy leather. The doctors continue it also prescribing for the processing of the escabiasis.

This use must give in and treat these diseases by nontoxic methods. The World-wide Organization of the Health highly classifies it like dangerous. The fatal dose in only 10 adults has been of gr. and is medical information of patients in whom convulsive crises have taken place? manifestación of a serious poisoning? after ingesting 1,6 gr..

As it acts in the human body
It enters the human organism by respiratory tract, skin and gastrointestinal channel. The clinical panel of the acute poisoning of the lindano depends on the dose that arrives at the organism, being able to affect the gastrointestinal apparatus reason why it can have manifestations as it feels nauseous, vomit and diarrea which they can be confused with a panel of acute gastroenteritis, but difference of this, because always it goes accompanied of others very diverse manifestations, mainly of the nervous system.

It can enter the human organism by respiratory tract, cutaneous and gastrointestinal. The clinical panel of the acute poisoning by lindano depends on the dose that arrives at the organism, being able to affect the gastrointestinal apparatus and to pronounce itself with feels nauseous, vomit and diarrea. These symptoms can be confused with a panel of acute gastroenteritis, but difference of this one because always it goes accompanied of other manifestations, mainly of the nervous system.

The migraine is a common symptom that it is accompanied by nervousness, distresses, excitation, amnesia, lack of coordination in movements and tremor. In the acute poisoning due to the lindano, the injury of the nervous system is most serious, and depending on the dose, concomitantes state of nutrition of the patient sex, age, and other diseases, the patient can evolve later to the convulsions and, to the death caused by depression of the centers respiratory and cardiovascular.

In all the patients who suffer of acute poisoning by lindano injury in the liver must look for, by means of clinical tests of its operation and the determination of bilirrubinas, transaminasas, or fosfatasas, since the injury of the liver can present/display necrosis (death of cells). The lindano is a good hepáticas enzyme inducer mainly in the chronic exhibition. Usually there is no clinical manifestation of this induction, becoming does not patent when the patient quickly eliminates drugs prescribed by some other disease, but that no longer have the awaited effect.

Another device injured because of acute poisoning by lindano is the kidney, reason why the renal operation must be examined measuring levels of creatinina, urea, úrico acid and electrolytes in the blood.

Persistence to the atmosphere
As all organoclorados the lindano is a very stable and persistent molecule in the medio.ambiente. Being very liposoluble it tends to bioacumular itself in the weaves with much fat like the mammary gland, the liver, the nervous system (the nervous weave mainly has much fat by the phospholipids that form the mielina).

This persistence in the atmosphere and the mammals is the fundamental reason so that it has retired to him of the commerce in most of countries, since it can have adverse effects in the long term.

Commercial Names

Etan 3G, Gammaphex, Gammex, Lindane, Lindol 6G

Chemical Formula
6 Cs H 6 CL 6
Not of Cas
58-89-9

Compilation: Jorge Arturo of Leon
Overhaul: Dra. Lilia Albert

 

 

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