TRINITROTOLUENUM
- N. T. (TRINITROTOLUENE)
Symptoms discovered in munition employees managing T. N. T who inhale and ingest it and additionally take in some thru the skin. They have been compiled by way of Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft and posted in the December, 1926 variety of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
The damaging motion of T. N. T on the crimson blood corpuscles is accountable for the anaemia and the jaundice with their secondary symptoms. The hemoglobin is modified so it can’t act satisfactorily as an oxygen service and as a end result we have breathlessness, dizziness, headache, faintness, palpitation, undue fatigue, muscle cramps and cyanosis; additionally drowsiness, despair and insomnia. Later levels of the poisoning produce poisonous jaundice and aplastic anaemia. The jaundice is the end result of mobile destruction in distinction to obstructive jaundice.
Head.–Depression and headache (frontal). Aversion to company, apathetic and weeps easily. Faintness, dizziness, intellectual sluggishness; delirium, convulsions, coma. Face very dark.
Respiratory.–Nose dry with stuffed sensation. Sneezing, coryza, burning of trachea, choking weight on chest; dry, convulsive cough, elevating mucous plugs.
Gastro-Intestinal.–Bitter taste, tons thirst, bitter regurgitation; stupid burning at the back of the ensiform; nausea, vomiting, constipation observed through diarrhoea with cramps.
Cardio-Vascular.–Palpitation, tachycardia, bradycardia, intermittent pulse.
Urinary.–High coloured urine, burning on urination, unexpected desire, incontinence and retention.
Skin.–Hands stained yellow. Dermatitis, nodular erythema, vesicles, itching and burning; puffiness. Tendency to haemorrhage beneath the pores and skin and from the nose. Tired ache in returned of knees.
Modalities.–Worse, alcohol (falls after one or two drinks of whisky). Tea (marked aversion).
Relationship.–Compare: Zinc; Phosph; Cina; Ars; Plumbum.
Dose.–Thirtieth efficiency has been used with success.
