Discussion This patient had symptoms suggestive of lithium and methyldopa interaction:
confusion, disorientation and hand tremors. 2-6 Although men-tal disturbance has been …

LITHIuM, the lightest metal, has an atomic weight of seven and closely resembles sodium
chemically. The ion is toxic and there are no therapeutic uses for lithium salts. Good (1903) …

Locked wards in Canadian mental hospitals To the editor: I was dismayed on several counts
at your publication of the misleading polemic" Locked wards in Canadian mental hospitals …

Lithium Intoxication SIR,-I was interested to read the account by Dr. B. von Hartitzsch and
others (30 December, p. 757) of neurological phenomena persisting in two of three patients …

LITHIUM was first discovered in 1818 by Arfvedson (1818) as an impurity in Swedish iron
ore and, since then, traces of this element have been found widely distributed in salt beds …

Now that lithium carbonate has been accepted as an effective treatment of bipolar manic-
depressive psychosis, the use of this drug has increased and will probably continue to …

Hospital records of 425 patients who had been treated simultaneously with lithium
carbonate and haloperidol were examined. Adverse reactions in these patients were the …

Acute self-poisoning with lithium is not common and it probably carries less risk of serious
complications than therapeutic intoxication (Dyson et al., 1987). Lithium is almost exclusively …

This syndrome followed the use of a commercial salt substitute containing lithium chloride,
citric acid and potassium iodide. The changes which occurred were profound and severe …

The severity of intoxication from lithium treatment has been thought to vary with the serum
concentrations. Thus anorexia, diarrhoea, vomiting, loss of weight, and tremor are common …