Severe toxicity following inhalational exposure to N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET)

Examples include owner's manuals for snowblowers, prescription medicine directions, hospital discharge instructions or product labels. The future challenge for manufacturers will be to provide information in a way that is more likely to be read or viewed and understood and followed. On discharge from the hospital, the patient featured in our case report expressed concern that the public was not more aware of the dangers of accidental DEET toxicity.