Publikation

Suicide of a man with known allergy to fish protein by ingesting tinned fish

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 19.06.2012

Bereiche
PubMed
DOI

Zitation
Sterzik V, Drendel V, Will M, Bohnert M. Suicide of a man with known allergy to fish protein by ingesting tinned fish. Forensic Sci Int 2012; 221:e4-6.
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)
Zeitschrift
Forensic Sci Int 2012; 221
Veröffentlichungsdatum
19.06.2012
eISSN (Online)
1872-6283
Seiten
e4-6
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

On a day in November, the body of a 31-year-old man was found near a swimming lake with two open and partly emptied fish tins lying next to him. Further investigations showed that the man had been allergic to fish protein and suffered from severe depression and drug psychosis. Already some days before the suicide, he had repeatedly asked for fish to kill himself. Although the results of the chemical and toxicological examinations were negative, the autopsy findings and histological tests suggest that death was caused by an anaphylactic reaction.