Table 5.
Medications that were used as treatments among the stung children among hospitalized children in Abuzar Children’s Hospital, Ahvaz Jondishapour University of Medical Sciences, Spring 2006
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| Treatments | A. crassicauda | H. lepturus | Unknown species | Total | ||||
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| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Antivenin | 12 | 92.30 | 3 | 60 | 27 | 69.23 | 42 | 73.68 |
| Alkaline diuresis | 10 | 76.92 | 5 | 100 | 17 | 43.58 | 30 | 55.10 |
| Calcium gluconate | 1 | 7.69 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1.75 |
| Diazepam | 1 | 7.69 | - | - | 1 | 2..56 | 2 | 3.50 |
| Phenobarbital | 1 | 7.69 | - | - | 2 | 5.12 | 3 | 5.26 |
| Antibiotic penicillin | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5.12 | 2 | 3.50 |
| Antibiotic Kefline | - | - | - | - | 4 | 10.25 | 4 | 7.01 |
| Dexamethazone | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2..56 | 1 | 1.75 |
| Atropine | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5.12 | 2 | 3.50 |