Toxicant and Disease Database

The CHE Toxicant and Disease Database is a searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions. Diseases and or toxicants can be viewed by utilizing the search options below. See a full description of the database and our methodology.

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Methemoglobinemia

Causes Grouped by strength of evidence

Strong Evidence anilines chlorate salts copper naphthalene nitrates / nitrites nitrobenzene TNT (trinitrotoluene)	Good Evidence 1,1-dichloroethane nitroethane nitrotoluenes p-dichlorobenzene toluidine	Limited Evidence chromic acid

Notes

Anilines are fat-soluble and readily penetrate intact skin through clothing and also can be inhaled as vapor. Chlorate salts are used primarily in pesticides and herbicides.

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Information in this database was originally drawn from these texts:

Klaassen CD, Ed. Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 6th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
LaDou J. Ed. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 3rd Edition. New York: Lange Medical/McGraw-Hill Company, 2004.
Rom WM. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 1998.

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Methemoglobinemia

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