Dalili zote alizonazo Mwakyembe zinaonyesha aliwekewa sumu ya mionzi ijulikanayo kama THALIUM-201. Vilevile yawezekana akawa alichanganyiwa kwa kiasi kidogo sana na POLONIUM-210. Mojawapo ya dalili hizo ni mwili kuota magamba na ukurutu na kunyonyoka kwa nyele ambazo zote Mwakyembe zimejionyesha. Dalili zimegawanyika katika makundi mawili kama zilipo hapa chini.
Neurology
- Signs take 2 to 4 days to develop with the severity dependent upon the level of poisoning.
Dermatology
- There is peripheral neuropathy with marked leg and foot tenderness and paraesthesia. Weakness may be difficult to elicit because of pain and it tends to be mild.
- With severe neurological involvement, respiratory paralysis can be fatal at the end of a week.
- Examination of the eyes and face may show loss of the lateral half of the eyebrows, drooping eyelids, facial nerve palsy, ophthalmoplegia.
- Specialist examination is required with slit lamp assessment and documentation of colour vision.
- Keratitis and corneal opacities occasionally occur.
MATIBABU
- Hair loss, rashes and palmar erythema take 2 to 4 weeks to appear.
- There is atrophy of the hair follicles. Alopecia is so characteristic that it should prompt suspicion. The hair loss primarily affects the scalp, temporal parts of the eyebrows, the eyelashes, and the limbs. Less often, the axillary regions are affected.
- Early signs are not specific and include scaling of the palms and soles and acneform lesions of the face.
- One month after the poisoning, Mees' lines (transverse white lines on the nails) appear in the nail plate. They also occur in arsenic poisoning and renal failure.
- Other findings may include crusted eczematous lesions, hypohidrosis, anhidrosis, palmar erythema, painful glossitis with redness of the tip of the tongue, stomatitis and hair discoloration.
- There is a characteristic band-like dark pigmentation of the scalp that develops within 4 days.
Mtu akilishwa kiasi kikubwa cha Thaliium-201 anaweza kutibiwa kwa kupewa PRUSSIAN BLUE ambayo kwa kitaalamu inapunguza "half life" ya hiyo mionzi kwa 50%.
TATIZO LINAKUJA PALE AMBAPO MTU AMEPEWA POLONIUM-210 KWA KWELI HAINA TIBA. VILEVILE INATEGEMEANA NA KIASI AMBACHO MTU AMEPEWA KWANI TATIZO KUBWA NI KUWA POLIUNM-2010 HUENDA KUKAA KATIKA SIFONGO ZA MIFUPA (BONE MARROW) NA KUZIHARIBU KABISA HIVYO MTU KUPOTEZA UWEZO WA KUZALISHA CHEMBECHEMBE HAI NYEKUNDU (RED BLOOD CELLS).
Alpha particles emitted from polonium-210 can disrupt cell structures, fragment nuclei, damage [FONT=Palatino Linotype,Palatino][FONT=Palatino Linotype,Palatino]DNA[/FONT][/FONT], and cause cell death
POLONIUM-210 not possible