| Summary Information |
| Diseases / List of Toxic Diseases /
Disease summary |
| Alternative Names |
Convallaria
majalis Toxicity |
| Disease Agents |
Flowers,
leaves and stems of lily of the valley Convallaria majalis contain glycosides
(including convallotoxin, convalloside, convallamarin) and saponins
(B102.40.w1,
B103). |
| Infectious
Agent(s) |
|
| Non-infectious
Agent(s) |
|
| Physical
Agent(s) |
-- Indirect / Secondary |
| General Description |
- In humans, general symptoms include nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain;
headache, dilated pupils, mental disturbance and irregular or slow heart beat. In extreme
cases, may result in coma and death. (B103)
- Flowers were lethal to geese and ducks in doses of 13 grams and 12 grams
respectively (B102.40.w1).
|
| Further Information |
Only mild
enteritis in chickens fed 30 grams of flowers (B102.40.w1). |
| Techniques linked to this disease |
|
 |
| Host taxa groups /species |
|
| Disease / Agent has been reported in either the
wild or in captivity in the following WATERFOWL Species: |
Geese and ducks (B102.40.w1). |
| "Geese and ducks"
- species not specified |
| Disease / Agent has been reported in
free-ranging populations of the following WATERFOWL Species: |
-- |
| -- |
