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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;18(2):e104383

Załęska J, Błaszczyk A, Jakubowska L, Szopiński J, Polaczek M, Grudny J, Zych J, Roszkowski-Śliż K

Fire-eater's lung.

Advances in respiratory medicine. 2016;84(6):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(2):98-104

Pielaszkiewicz-Wydra M, Homola-Piekarska B, Szcześniak E, Ciołek-Zdun M, Fall A

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

Polish journal of radiology. 2012;77(4):60-4

Franzen D, Kohler M

Severe pneumonitis after fire eating.

BMJ case reports. 2012;2012

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;101(12):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;80(5):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;24(3):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;283(6307):1661