Methylphenidate Unintentional Ingestion in Preschool Children
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: With the rising number of prescriptions for methylphenidate has come an increase in preschool younger siblings being exposed to the risk of ingesting methylphenidate. Furthermore, the symptoms of methylphenidate ingestion in preschool children have not been previously defined. METHODS: Over a 3-year period we enrolled and followed by telephone children aged <6 years with methylphenidate ingestion, whether it was their own medication or someone else's, at time of first call to the poison control center. RESULTS: A total of 49 children aged 30+/-11 months were included. Patients ingested a median of 1 tablet (range 0.25-10) for a total median dose of 0.9 mg/kg (range 0.26-12). Twenty-one patients were referred to a health care facility, and the poison control center recommended activated charcoal for 12 of them. Patients referred to a health care facility ingested more methylphenidate: median 1.8 versus 0.7 mg/kg (P<0.001). Patients for whom activated charcoal was recommended ingested more methylphenidate: median 3.5 versus 0.8 mg/kg (P<0.001). Twenty-four patients developed symptoms: agitation or irritability in 17, somnolence in 5, vomiting in 2, and abdominal pain in 2. Two patients had tachycardia. Patients who ingested an extended-release preparation had similar rates of symptoms as those who ingested a regular preparation, 7/9 versus 17/40 (P=0.07), while having ingested similar amounts, median 1.6 versus 0.8 mg/kg (P=0.08). Patients who ingested 1 tablet or less had a similar rate of symptoms as those who ingested more than 1 tablet: 12/29 versus 10/17 (P=0.25). There was no difference in the dose ingested for those who became symptomatic compared with those who remained asymptomatic: median 1.2 (range 0.26-12) versus 0.8 mg/kg (range 0.26-3.8) (P=0.08). CONCLUSION: Preschool children ingesting less than 1 mg/kg of regular methylphenidate can be safely managed at home in spite of the fact that some will develop minor symptoms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".