An Untoward Reaction to Accidental Ingestion of LSD in a 5-Year-Old Girl
JAMA September 11, 1967 Doris H. Milman 18 citations
A 5-year-old girl with no prior psychiatric problems became acutely psychotic after accidentally ingesting 100μg of LSD. Symptoms included agitation, panic, depression, flattened affect, disorientation, depersonalization, body image distortion, and reduced intellectual function. She also showed signs of organic brain dysfunction, such as impaired visual-motor and visual-perceptual abilities and an abnormal EEG. The most severe symptoms resolved within days, but thinking disorder, body image distortion, and lowered IQ persisted for several months. After five months, only the abnormal EEG and visual-motor disorganization remained; after nine months, only visual-motor impairment persisted.