Deadly Oleander Flower

This flower is commonly called Jepun flowers, oleander, baladro or Adelfa, His appearance very attractive from the outside suggests that this flower is a flower that is not dangerous. Oleander is known as one of the most toxic plants on earth, often used for suicide in south India. variety of toxins contained in all parts of this plant, such as oleandrin and neriine, causing nervous system disorders, digestive disorders, and circulatory system in which to work it all happened simultaneously. victim will experience symptoms of loss of consciousness, trembling, pain, coma, and death. sap can cause skin irritation and eye. 

Have you seen the flowers of ornamental plants Oleander pink, white or yellow? It must have, because these plants can be found everywhere, both on school grounds, hospital grounds, our home page, city parks and along the edges of the road. But who would have thought, that plants seem beautiful to the eye, is a plant highly poisonous and deadly, ranging from leaves, flowers, fruit seeds, branches and stems to the trunk sap. Anyway, all parts of the Oleander plant are toxic, not only for humans, but also for pets (cats and dogs) and livestock (sheep, cattle, horses).

There are several components of toxins contained in plants such as oleander oleandrin and neriine this incoming class of cardiac glycosides, a substance that causes slowing of heart rate and heart failure. Tree bark (bark) Oleander contains a poisonous substance that has a working power rosagenin like strychnine. Children who like to pick the leaves or flowers and sucking or chewing, are the creatures most at risk of poisoning. One page of Oleander leaves are eaten by toddlers can be fatal (deadly). Symptoms of poisoning will soon arise immediately after eating part of the Oleander plant, including nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, blurred eyes, slowed heart rate, coma and eventually death.

Disturbingly, Oleander plant is now used as a tool for suicide, particularly in the area of ​​South India and Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, for example, before 1980, there has never been in the hospital medical records of death due to toxic Oleander. In that year, reported on a large scale in the media about the death of two girls who deliberately eat yellow Oleander seeds for suicide. Since the incident, the suicide rate continues to rise with Oleander and Sri Lanka today in an average 2,000 people die each year because of Oleander poisoning. Oleander toxins are used not only for suicide (suicide), but also to kill people (Homicide) and to abortion (abortion).

Drying leaves, seeds of this plant branches does not reduce levels of toxicity. Even the honey produced by bees suck nectar from flowers Oleander is also toxic for consumption. Surprisingly enough, the leaves of plants that taste sweet, it can kill a horse if given too late emergency care (100 grams of the substance of these toxins is enough to kill an adult horse).

Getting treatment Oleander poisoning is to induce vomiting (induced vomitting), flushing the stomach (gastric lavage), and granting norit (activated charcoal). Permberian norit is intended to bind toxic substances so that it becomes neutral for expulsion from the body. Ways need to be taken, if the stimulation of vomiting is not successful, is the provision of digoxin immune fab, a production of drugs from GlaxoSmithKline. For developing countries like India and Sri Lanka, providing immune fab digoxine certainly having problems, because the price is quite expensive.

Therefore, preventive measures need to be at risk of Oleander is an ornamental plant. When at home we still have children under five, this plant should be cut down only. Similarly to primary school, wiser if not maintain Oleander plants in the schoolyard. There are stories that can not be confirmable, the number of children who died because scouts roasting meat Oleander stabbed with a tree branch. Once the story was probably just a myth, of course, the introduction of knowledge about the dangers of Oleander plant poisoning to children need to be socialized since early, so that avoidable adverse events.