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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Address: Department of Ophthalmology, Mid Essex NHS | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Exposure to Euphorbia lathyris latex resulting in alkaline chemical injury a case report Alexander S loannidis Konstantinos I Papageorgiou and Petros S Andreou Address Department of Ophthalmology Mid Essex NHS Trust Court Road Chelmsford Essex CM1 7ET UK Email Alexander S Ioannidis - alexioannidis@ Konstantinos I Papageorgiou - papageorgiouk@ Petros S Andreou - pandreou@ Corresponding author Published 10 November 2009 Received 26 March 2008 . r llr Accepted 10 November 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 115 doi l 752-1947-3-115 This article is available from http content 3 1 1 15 2009 Ioannidis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction We report the case of a patient with extreme pain following accidental exposure to the latex of Euphorbia lathyris. Case presentation A 76-year-old Caucasian woman attended the ophthalmology department with acute severe bilateral eye pain. This occurred immediately after having pulled a weed out of her garden with her bare hands. She recalled having subsequently rubbed her eyes. The offending plant was brought into hospital and was identified as the Caper Spurge Euphorbia lathyris . Her ocular pH was alkaline pH 9 . After copious irrigation the pH normalised. She was treated with topical steroids cycloplegics lubricants and opioid oral analgesia. Three days later she was symptom-free and her vision had returned to normal. Conclusion Exposure to Caper spurge latex is a rare cause of keratoconjunctivitis. It can however potentially lead .