Arsenic (As)
•As contaminates in drinking water, sea foods, meat, herbal medicine
–Acute toxicity: Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloody rice water diarrh bone marrow depression, pancy topemia, anemia, basophilic stippling within 4 days of large ingestion
•Chronic toxicity:
•Dermatologic changes: hyperpigmentation and
•keratosis on palms and soles
–Nail: Mee’s line
–carcinogen