Acute Renal Injury Following Detergent Ingestion

Abstract

Acute kidney injury (AKI) due to detergent ingestion has been reported infrequently in the literature and there is no report about pancytopenia developing after detergent ingestion. We report a case with AKI and pancytopenia that developed after ingestion of laundry detergent. We thought that renal toxicity due to detergent ingestion might be a result of the direct toxic effect of the detergent on the renal tubular epithelium.