dieldrin and Poisoning

Topics: Animals; Animals, Domestic; Cats; Cattle; DDT; Dieldrin; Dogs; Hexachlorocyclohexane; Horses; Insecticides; New Zealand; Poisoning; Poultry; Sheep; Swine

Topics: Animal Diseases; Animals; Bridged-Ring Compounds; Cats; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Chickens; Chlordan; Cyclohexanes; DDT; Dieldrin; Dog Diseases; Dogs; Drug Synergism; Female; Guinea Pigs; Haplorhini; Horse Diseases; Horses; Hydrocarbons, Halogenated; Indenes; Insecticide Resistance; Insecticides; Male; Mice; Naphthalenes; Neoplasms; Poisoning; Poultry Diseases; Rabbits; Rats; Rodent Diseases; Sheep; Sheep Diseases

Topics: Animals; Chemical Phenomena; Chemistry; Dieldrin; Insecticides; Mammals; Poisoning; Toxicology

In late July of 1994 two 11-mo-old Holstein heifers were found dead inside a barn after a break-and-entry into it by several animals. The other animals showed no signs of sickness. The predominant postmortem findings were pulmonary edema and muscular hemorrhage. Chemical analysis found endosulfan, dieldrin, DDT and DDE in the rumen contents of both animals. The owner admitted that a very old bottle of pesticide had been knocked over and consumed by these animals; the lid consisted of plastic tape. The sale of DDT to the public was discontinued in the US on January 1, 1973, and the sale of dieldrin was halted in the US in 1987. This case demonstrates that poisoning by long obsolete farm chemicals still must be considered in differential diagnoses of acute deaths.

Topics: Animals; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; DDT; Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene; Dieldrin; Endosulfan; Hemorrhage; Insecticides; Poisoning; Pulmonary Edema; Rumen

A sudden onset of bizarre neurologic dysfunction was found in 8 of 90 mixed-breed feeder calves. Seven other calves were dead, and 3 more died during the next week. A diagnosis of organochlorine toxicosis was made when rumen and abomasal contents from 1 of the calves revealed 22.4 and 20.6 micrograms of aldrin/g of ingesta, respectively. Complete feeds retrieved from self-feeders contained 54 and 528 micrograms of aldrin/g of feed. The initial concentration range in fat from 40 live calves was 6.01 to 42.44 micrograms of dieldrin/g of fat. Additional fat samples were analyzed to verify residue compliance until the entire herd was clear of residue 18 months after removal of the contaminated ration. The range of apparent half-lives for dieldrin in body fat of heifers and steers was 69 to 231 and 53 to 116 days, respectively. These findings demonstrate the considerable variability in apparent half-life of dieldrin in field cases. In cases of dieldrin-contaminated livestock, veterinarians and regulatory personnel must accurately determine the necessary slaughter withholding times so that informed economic decisions are made in the best interest of the producer while enhancing the probability of a safe food supply. Excretion rates of dieldrin from field-contaminated cattle may not be consistent with results obtained under experimental conditions.

Topics: Adipose Tissue; Aldrin; Animal Feed; Animals; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Chromatography, Gas; Dieldrin; Drug Residues; Female; Food Contamination; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Half-Life; Male; Poisoning

Topics: Adult; Diazepam; Dieldrin; Electroencephalography; Humans; Male; Mannitol; Poisoning; Positive-Pressure Respiration; Suicide

Topics: Abomasum; Animals; Artiodactyla; Blindness; Bone Marrow; Brain; Dieldrin; Female; Kidney; Liver; Lung; Lymph Nodes; Male; Muscles; Myocardium; Pesticide Residues; Poisoning; Rumen; Sex Factors; South Africa; Spleen

Topics: Adipose Tissue; Administration, Oral; Animals; Brain; Brain Chemistry; Dieldrin; Female; Fetal Diseases; Fetus; Guinea Pigs; Kidney; Liver; Male; Maternal-Fetal Exchange; Microscopy, Electron; Nitrites; Poisoning; Pregnancy; Sodium

Topics: Adipose Tissue; Administration, Oral; Animals; Chromatography, Gas; Dieldrin; Ethanol; Lipid Mobilization; Liver; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred Strains; Poisoning; Time Factors

Topics: Animals; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; DDT; Dieldrin; Diet Therapy; Enzymes; Fats; Microsomes, Liver; Milk; Pesticides; Phenobarbital; Phenytoin; Poisoning

Topics: Aluminum Silicates; Animals; Antidotes; Calcium; Carbon; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; DDT; Dieldrin; Fats; Hydrocarbons, Halogenated; Oils; Pesticides; Phenobarbital; Poisoning; Proteins; Quinolines; Vitamin A; Vitamin D; Vitamin E

Topics: Animals; Carbon; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Dieldrin; Female; Food Additives; Milk; Phenobarbital; Poisoning; United States; United States Food and Drug Administration

Topics: Animals; Dieldrin; Female; Poisoning; Pregnancy; Rats; Reproduction; Time Factors

Topics: Age Factors; Animal Feed; Animals; Blood Vessels; Brain; Brain Chemistry; Brain Diseases; Brain Edema; Dieldrin; Female; Male; Poisoning; Rats; Seizures; Sex Factors; Time Factors

Topics: Animals; Autopsy; Biphenyl Compounds; Bird Diseases; Birds; Brain Chemistry; Chlorine; DDT; Dieldrin; Hydrocarbons, Halogenated; Insecticides; Lead Poisoning; Mortality; Poisoning; Skeleton; United States

Topics: Adult; Agricultural Workers' Diseases; Antidotes; Atropine; Child; Child, Preschool; Chlordan; Dieldrin; Hexachlorocyclohexane; Humans; Hydrocarbons, Halogenated; Male; Parathion; Pesticides; Phosphates; Poisoning; Poisons; Pralidoxime Compounds

Topics: Alkaloids; Dieldrin; Electroencephalography; Insecticides; Neurologic Manifestations; Occupational Diseases; Poisoning; Seizures; Toxicology

Topics: Alkaloids; Child; Dieldrin; Foodborne Diseases; Insecticides; Poisoning; Protective Agents; Toxicology

Topics: Chlorine; Dieldrin; Insecticides; Ions; Organic Agriculture; Pentobarbital; Phenobarbital; Physiology; Poisoning; Toxicology

Topics: Antidotes; Calcium; Chlordan; DDT; Diagnosis; Dieldrin; Emetics; Gastric Lavage; Gluconates; Humans; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; Insecticides; Pentobarbital; Phenobarbital; Poisoning; Respiration; Respiration, Artificial; Sodium Chloride; Therapeutics; Toxicology

Topics: Aldrin; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Dieldrin; Dogs; Hepatitis; Hepatitis A; Insecticides; Kidney Diseases; Pathology; Poisoning; Rats; Research; Statistics as Topic; Toxicology

Topics: Cold Temperature; Conditioning, Classical; Dieldrin; Eosinophils; Epinephrine; Insecticides; Leukocyte Count; Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; Pharmacology; Poisoning; Rats; Reflex; Research; Toxicology

Topics: Analgesics; Analgesics, Non-Narcotic; Antipyretics; Dextropropoxyphene; Dieldrin; Hypnotics and Sedatives; Medical Records; Piperidones; Poisoning

Topics: Aldrin; Autonomic Nervous System; Dieldrin; Insecticides; Poisoning