CSF test is required in: March 2010: (A) Morphine poisoning, (B) Organophosphorous poisoning, (C) Alcohol poisoning, (D) Arsenic poisoning
Answer is C. Ans. C: Alcohol poisoning Structures preserved in poisoning of: Brain: opiates, organophosphorous, alkaloids, cyanide, strychnine, barbiturates anaesthetics etc Spinal cord: strychnine and gelsemium CSF: Alcohol Bone: Arsenic, antimony, thallium