Health authorities in SA issue an urgent warning to hospitals and GPs after a patient who consumed a substance sold as a complementary medicine suffered severe lead poisoning.
Health authorities in SA have issued an urgent public warning about a substance which, while sold as a complementary medicine, has been found to contain poisonous heavy metals including lead and mercury.
The product is believed to have been made overseas and sold to the patient at a South-East Asian supermarket in Adelaide. While SA Health said it could not release certain details about the case, it confirmed the patient had since been discharged from hospital and was now being managed at home. including after at least a dozen people who developed a dependence on it sought help for withdrawal symptoms in south-east QueenslandSA Health said authorities had notified hospital emergency departments and GPs about the lead poisoning case, and urged them to be mindful of blood lead testing "for patients presenting with relevant symptoms".
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