Treatment for ciguatoxin poisoning (ciguatera)

For dehydration due to ciguatera, first-line treatment is intravenous fluid therapy. Intravenous mannitol is no more effective than sodium chloride 0.9% for the treatment of ciguatera.

Anti-inflammatory drugs can be useful for symptomatic therapy.

Evidence to support pharmacological treatment of chronic ciguatera is lacking—seek advice from a poisons information centre (13 11 26).