Dr Riffi Mohammed has completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from Tlemcen University and postdoctoral studies from Algiers University School of Medicine. He is a member of SoHT. He has published one paper in “Toxicologie analytique et clinique”.
Abstract
Alpha-Chloralose was introduced in drugs domain as general anesthetic for animal experiment a century ago, it found also its utility and became the most famous and only raticide since 1989. Although it has been ignored to the benefit of AVK, new problems are appearing witch put emphasis documenting hospitalizations poisoning cases’ difficulties and also their diagnostics. Endeed, Alpha-Chloralose is one of the old substance products that it ‘s up of the debate in Algeria about its efficiency use as a pesticide, because of a potential misuse. This is why we decide to develop this topic through four interesting cases, completing with clinical and analytical investigations. In countrary of the almost of case reports in the litterature, mostly are choosen with several evolution after recividism or death (case N°1 and 2), ones likely Munhchauzen syndrome (case N°3), and a probable poisoning case (case N°4).
