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Hydrocarbons (petrochemicals: petroleum, petrolatum, paraffin, vaseline, naphta, jet fuel (kerosene), Diesel, gasoil), ointments, salad oil, variegated oils, butter). Aspirated

Frequency - Incidence

Incidence of respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as assessed by number of reported/published cases in the literature. Red digits in stars indicate: 0 = Very rare, questionable signal · 1 = < 10 cases · 2 = 10-50 cases · 3 = 50–100 cases · 4 = 100-200 cases · 5 = >200 cases

Evidence level/grade

Evidence level for respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as estimated using Hill’s (1965), Naranjo’s (1981), and Bégaud’s (1985) criteria applied to published cases. Blue digits in stars indicate: 0 = Questionable · 1 = Low · 2 = Moderate · 3 = Robust · 4 = Definite · 5 = Unquestionable, pathognomonic

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Imaging: Bibasilar opacities/shadowing

Publications

Watanabe K, Nakamura J, Tanaka S, Nakashima K

Adult Chemical Pneumonitis Caused by Accidental Kerosene Aspiration: A Case Report.

Cureus 2026 Feb;18;e104383 — 2026 Feb

Za??ska J, B?aszczyk A, Jakubowska L, Szopi?ski J, Polaczek M, Grudny J, Zych J, Roszkowski-?li? K

Fire-eater's lung.

Advances in respiratory medicine 2016;84;337-341 — 2016 — 337-341

Franzen D, Kohler M, Degrandi C, Kullak-Ublick GA, Ceschi A

Fire eater's lung: retrospective analysis of 123 cases reported to a National Poison Center.

Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases 2014;87;98-104 — 2014 — 98-104

Pielaszkiewicz-Wydra M, Homola-Piekarska B, Szcze?niak E, Cio?ek-Zdun M, Fall A

Exogenous lipoid pneumonia - a case report of a fire-eater.

Polish journal of radiology 2012 Oct;77;60-4 — 2012 Oct — 60-4

Franzen D, Kohler M

Severe pneumonitis after fire eating.

BMJ case reports 2012 Sep 03;2012; — 2012 Sep 03

Studer D, Brill AK, Joost C, Stucki A

[Consequences of an accidental aspiration of petroleum in a case of a fire eating man].

Praxis 2012 Jun 06;101;793-8 — 2012 Jun 06 — 793-8

Gentina T, Tillie-Leblond I, Birolleau S, Saidi F, Saelens T, Boudoux L, Vervloet D, Delaval P, Tonnel AB

Fire-eater's lung: seventeen cases and a review of the literature.

Medicine 2001 Sep;80;291-7 — 2001 Sep — 291-7

Franquet T, Gómez-Santos D, Giménez A, Torrubia S, Monill JM

Fire eater's pneumonia: radiographic and CT findings.

Journal of computer assisted tomography 2000 May-Jun;24;448-50 — 2000 May-Jun — 448-50

Buchanan DR, Lamb D, Seaton A

Punk rocker's lung: pulmonary fibrosis in a drug snorting fire-eater.

British medical journal (Clinical research ed.) 1981 Dec 19-26;283;1661 — 1981 Dec 19-26 — 1661