Perfil clínico-epidemiológico de crianças e adolescentes de 0 a 14 anos com intoxicações agudas por saneantes no período de 2015 a 2019

Abstract

Objective: Analyzing the clinical-epidemiological profile of children and adolescents from 0 to 14 years of age who are victims of intoxication by sanitizers who were notified at the Center for Information and Toxicological Assistance of Pernambuco (CIATox/PE), from January 2015 to December 2019. Method: a cross-sectional study was conducted, between March 2019 and September 2020, with analysis of the DATATOX database. The data were typed in the MS Excel worksheet and the program used for statistical analysis was STATA in version 13.1. The Ethics Committee of the Institute of Integral Medicine Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP) approved the work. Results: 1,048 attendance forms were analyzed, with the age group prevalent from 1 to 4 years, male predominance and the most common agent the bleach. Most cases with mild severity and favorable outcome. As for the place of exposure, the most frequent was habitual residence and in urban areas. In the 10 to 14 year age group, 52.8% were related to suicide attempts, mostly girls, with the "chumbinho" as the mainagent. Conclusion: the data obtained are consistent with the findings in the literature.