Alcohol poisoning among girls is helping fuel a rise in poisonings suffered by teenagers, research suggests.

Experts analysed GP records and found a 27 per cent rise in poisoning - including accidental, deliberate self-harming and alcohol poisoning - between 1992 and 2012.

There were 17,862 cases of poisoning among UK teenagers between 1992 and 2012, the data, published in the journal Injury Prevention, showed.

Looking at the number of poisonings occurring in 100,000 young people year terms, experts found a rise from 264.1 new cases per 100,000 person years to 346.8 per 100,000.

The largest increases were for intentional poisonings among 16- to 17-year-old-girls and for alcohol-related poisonings among 15- to 16-year-old girls, both of which roughly doubled.

Between 2007 and 2012 almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of poisonings were recorded as intentional, and 16 per cent were related to alcohol.

Girls were significantly more likely to suffer from poisoning, the study found, with the rate of poisoning in boys and young men less than half of that in girls and young women. Intentional poisonings were 80 per cent lower in boys and young men than girls.

And alcohol-related poisonings were 10 per cent lower in boys and young men.

The research, from the University of Nottingham, also found that youngsters living in the most economically deprived regions were two to three times more likely to poison themselves than those in the least deprived.

Poisoning is one of the most common causes of death among teenagers worldwide, with much of it related to self-harm.

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