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(The cartoon made headlines in December 1997 when its flashing lights sent more than 700 Japanese kids into convulsions.)
In 24 children with inherited disorders of fatty acid oxidation, conduction defects or arrhythmias were the predominant presenting feature [ 14 ] . Arrhythmias in association with hepatomuscular symptoms and hyperammonemia have also been demonstrated in cases of carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase deficiency whose presenting features also include neonatal distress, convulsions, hypoglycemia, hypoketonemia, intermittent dicarboxylic aciduria, hypothermia, apnea, neurological deterioration, and hypocarnitinemia with grossly elevated acylcarnitines [ 15 ] . The accumulation of arrhythmogenic metabolites of fatty acids, such as long chain acylcarnitines, may be responsible for the observed lethal cardiac defects.
The time taken before the onset of clonic convulsions, the duration of clonic convulsions, and the percentage of seizure and mortality protection were recorded [ 26 ] .
There are approximately 175 stings by Tityus trinitatis and eight human deaths annually [ 11 ] . In humans acute symptoms are convulsions, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, sweating, dyspnoea and localised burning [ 10 ] . Of all scorpion sting victims, 80% developed acute pancreatitis and in 38% of these cases there was no abdominal pain [ 10 ] .
[ 41 55 ] Convulsions and dizziness are other reported effects of mefloquine which can be related to liver or thyroid disturbance.