Yub Raj Sedhai, Alok Atreya, Soney Basnyat, Prabin Phuyal, Sagar Pokhrel
The Medico-legal journal 2022 JunSodium nitrite is a common household product with a variety of uses such as curing meat, food additive, colouring agent, anti-freezing agent and disinfectant. We report a case of sodium nitrite intoxication for deliberate self-harm and discuss the increasing number of such cases in recent times.
Yub Raj Sedhai, Alok Atreya, Soney Basnyat, Prabin Phuyal, Sagar Pokhrel. The use of sodium nitrite for deliberate self-harm, and the online suicide market: Should we care? The Medico-legal journal. 2022 Jun;90(2):79-80
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