Abstract
Abstract
This research reveals that drugs and chemicals poisoning have been reported to
have severe and fetal side effects on health provided by doctors in statistics
and periodical records. This work aimed to explore the interaction among drug
and chemical poisoning patterns concerning risk factors, especially gender, age,
exposure circumstances, and outcomes in the Makkah region. A retrospective
analysis was of clinical drug and chemical poisoning cases (2014–2015).
The data were retrieved from the Department of Environmental and Occupational
Health, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabia Ministry of
Health received 1216 reports of drug and chemical poisoning during
2014–2015 in Makkah. This study has found that, the most affected gender
was that of males (65%). The most affected age category with drug
poisoning was over 15 years old (67%), but under 5 years for chemical
poisoning (60%). The majority of drug poisoning cases are unknown drugs
(42%), which accidental poisoning was a minority compared with other
drug causes (27%). Chemical poisoning accidents were the majority causes
of the recorded cases (63%). We reported healthy recovered without
complications for most patients from drug and chemical poisoning
(85–95%). Antidotes were administered in only (5%) of
cases, and fatalities were reported (0.5% of cases). We have shown a
flagrant increase in the number of people poisoned by drugs and chemical agents
during 2015. Increases poisoning cases involved both genders and all studied age
categories, especially males over 15 years up to 25 (drugs) and
< 5 years (chemicals). Most cases were accidental (chemicals)
and reported healthy recovery for most patients.