Table 1.

Clinical symptoms of five patients with acute thallium poisoning

Patient No.	Age	Initial symptoms	Accompanying symptoms
			Hepatic damage	Alopecia	Coagulopathy	Central nervous symptoms
1	40	Dysesthesia of distal limbs with hyperalgesia, weakness of lower limbs	+	+ (10th day)	+ (11th day-16th day)	+ (13th day)
2	33	Dysesthesia of lower limbs with hyperalgesia, lumbodynia	+	+ (9th day)	-	-
3	49	Hypalgesia of two hands, abdominalgia	+	+ (8th day)	+ (11th day-13th day)	+ (15th day)
4	44	Dysesthesia and paresthesia of lower limbs, abdominalgia,	+	+ (8th day)	-	-
5	37	Dysesthesia, weakness, abdominalgia	+	+ (3rd day)	-	+ (12th day)

The initial symptoms are the chief complaints of the patients at admission. The accompanying symptoms that we observed during hospitalization are recorded in the table. “+”: Symptoms were positive; “-“: Symptoms were negative. Date in parentheses was the occurrence time when the symptoms appeared after exposure.