infantile mercury poisoning
Findings
No curated finding names infantile mercury poisoning yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Infantile mercury poisoning is a rare intoxication affecting children, most commonly characterized by erythema of the hands, feet and nose, edematous, painful, pink to red, desquamating fingers and toes, bluish, cold and wet extremities, excessive sweating, irritability, photophobia, muscle weakness, diffuse hypotonia, paresthesia, hypertension and tachycardia, due to elemental, organic or inorganic mercury exposure. Additional manifestations include alopecia, loss of appetite, excessive salivation with red and swollen gums, tooth and nail loss, and insomnia.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0016588), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
7 names
Resolves to: infantile mercury poisoning
- Also called
- erythroedema polyneuritisFeer diseaseinfantile acrodyniainfantile mercury intoxicationpink diseaseSwift diseaseSwift-Feer disease