ABSTRACT
People who handle the bulbs a lot may develop a dermatitis due to the calcium oxalate raphide crystals that penetrate the skin and cause inflammation.2-4
Risk Assessment Tulip bulbs pose the greatest risk to people and animals that may handle or eat the bulbs. The bulbs pose the greatest risk to dogs. A contact dermatitis or allergy occurs in some individuals handling the tulip bulbs.2-4
Poisoning has occurred in people who have mistakenly eaten tulip bulbs for onions.5 Fatalities in people who have eaten tulip bulbs have not been reported. However, cattle fed quantities of discarded tulip plants and bulbs have been fatally poisoned.6
