{"pk":404,"title":"When Too Much Is Enough: Pediatric Cyproheptadine Overdose with Confirmatory Level","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Cyproheptadine is an H-1 antihistamine with anticholinergic and antiserotonergic effects.Cyproheptadine’s most common use has been in the management cold-induced urticaria. It is often usedin primary care for its side effect of appetite stimulation. Recently there has been increasing interest inits use in the treatment of drug-induced serotonin syndrome. Cyproheptadine overdose is uncommonlyreported in the medical literature. We report the rare case of a pediatric cyproheptadine overdose with aconfirmatory cyproheptadine level.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Case Reports","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85f9m16k","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Terrance","middle_name":"","last_name":"McGovern","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Paterson, New Jersey","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Justin","middle_name":"","last_name":"McNamee","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emergency Medicine Professionals, Ormond Beach, Florida","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marcus","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Newark, New Jersey","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Josh","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kashani","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine,Paterson, New Jersey","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-07-06T00:42:40+01:00","date_accepted":"2017-07-06T00:42:40+01:00","date_published":"2017-07-06T19:05:25+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/404/galley/168/download/"}]}