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More Than Just A Gastroenteritis - Bottle gourd (Lagenaria Siceraria) Toxicity Diagnosed in the Emergency Department

2021-12-08

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<h4>Background: </h4> Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) is sometimes used in complementary medicine practice for the treatment of chronic ailments. It belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. However, there have been reports of toxicity due to consumption of bottle gourd juice leading to severe abdominal upset and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. As emergency physicians we need to be aware of such complementary medic...

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Literature Corpus work: 53c600a6-fc46-5aea-9036-34b3057e8db7
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1139827/v1

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