{"title":"\"Alkaline Diuresis\" is the Savior in 2,4-Dimethylamine Intoxication.","authors":"Sabarinath Shanmugam, Ramasami Sethuraman, Baby Kavitha, Jeya Shakila, Chakravarthy Thirumavalavan, N Karthikeyan, Krishna Kumar","doi":"10.25259/ijn_431_23","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>2,4-dimethyalmine is a herbicide commonly used by agriculturalist. Acute intoxication can cause fatal multiorgan damage. No antidote is available. We report a rarely encountered manifestation of this toxin, that is, spontaneous rhabdomyolysis, acute kidney injury and the effectiveness of alkaline diuresis as a life saving treatment in 2,4-dimethylamine intoxication.</p>","PeriodicalId":13359,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Nephrology","volume":"34 6","pages":"659-660"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618936/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Indian Journal of Nephrology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25259/ijn_431_23","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/6/17 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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2,4-dimethyalmine is a herbicide commonly used by agriculturalist. Acute intoxication can cause fatal multiorgan damage. No antidote is available. We report a rarely encountered manifestation of this toxin, that is, spontaneous rhabdomyolysis, acute kidney injury and the effectiveness of alkaline diuresis as a life saving treatment in 2,4-dimethylamine intoxication.