Many people in life eat fruit almost every day
This season another fruit is on the market in large numbers
Many Chengdu people also like it very much
TA is the word girl
The scientific name water chestnut (bí qí) is commonly known as the horseshoe
Many people like to eat raw on the skin
I even like to "peel" the water chestnut directly with my teeth.
But the well-off girl wants to remind everyone
Eat raw watercress beware of parasites!
01 Long-term raw water chestnut
The woman's abdominal pain was unbearable and she sought medical attention urgently
According to Health Hangzhou, Ms. Wang (pseudonym), 27, loves raw water chestnuts on weekdays and often buys a bag to eat.
Since two years ago, she often felt vague pain in her upper abdomen, and when it was severe, she even had pain until she couldn't sleep all night, went to the local hospital and was diagnosed with biliary ascariasis, and did many tests but could not get a clear diagnosis.
Although Ms. Wang intuitively believed that it should be related to her eating habits, she did not investigate deeply considering that abdominal pain symptoms did not come frequently.
At the beginning of this year, Ms. Wang went to Hangzhou to work, and this problem has been dragging on. It wasn't until a week ago that the symptoms of abdominal pain suddenly worsened and she realized that the situation was not right, and her family rushed her to the Hangzhou Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for hospitalization, but the results shocked everyone, suggesting that there may be a papillary tumor in the hepatic bile ducts.
The physician who attended the patient combined the patient's medical history and eventually locked the cause on the parasitic infection.
During the operation, after the doctor cut open Ms. Wang's inner bile duct, everyone took a breath of cool air, only to see two flat parasites with mouth suckers squirming wildly in the tube, which was very arrogant!
At this point, the truth came out, and the real culprit that caused Ms. Wang to suffer from repeated abdominal pain for two years was indeed the parasite ginger slice insect, which liked to hide in the water chestnut.
02 Why are there parasites in water chestnuts?
This starts with the growing environment of the water chestnut.
Water chestnut prefers warm and moist, not hardy, mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other southern regions.
Friends who have seen it know that water chestnuts are mostly planted in paddy fields. In these paddy fields, there may be cysticers of ginger flakes, which are easily attached to the surface of the water chestnut.
Once eaten by mistake, ginger flakes will parasitize in the duodenum, resulting in ginger flakes disease, which can cause intestinal ulcers, diarrhea or facial puffiness.
Source: Human Parasites
Many people are lucky to think that they have eaten water chestnut raw, but escaping parasitic infection is not lucky, and the infection of ginger flakes is an incubation period, and unlike acute food poisoning, some infections may take 1 to 2 months to attack.
Some people think that if you take salt water and soak it and eat it, you will not be afraid of parasites.
In this regard, Chen Jiaxu, director of the Health Education and Counseling Testing Center of the Institute for Parasitic Disease Prevention and Control of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said:
Saline soaking does not kill parasites. Soak the ginger cysticercosis in 3% salt water, soak for 3 days to survive, and the cysticer will die after 5 days. However, ginger cysts are intolerant to high heat and die after one minute of boiling water, or one day of exposure to sunlight. Therefore, it is safer and more assured to wash and cook the water chestnut as much as possible after eating.
In addition to water chestnuts, raw and cold foods such as diamond horns, russets, and houttuynia cordata are all hosts for ginger flakes. Therefore, these foods should not only be cleaned, but also best cooked and eaten, but also avoid eating raw diamond horns with shells, raw water chestnuts, and the utensils containing this food should also be boiled or exposed to the sun.
03 Most parasites enter from the mouth
Be careful when eating these foods
As the saying goes: the disease comes from the mouth, and the parasite is no exception, generally speaking, the reason why it is infected with parasites is actually eaten. Like what:
Eat sashimi – liver flukes
Many people love to eat sashimi, one bite at a time, but as everyone knows, these sashimi may contain a large number of parasites, the most of which is The Most Chinese Testicles, that is, liver flukes. If the sashimi is not well sterilized, these parasites will be eaten into the stomach, causing liver fluke disease, and in severe cases, liver cirrhosis and even bile duct cell carcinoma.
A man who ate freshwater sashimi for 32 years was found to be infected with liver fluke disease, and doctors found a large number of liver flukes in his bile ducts, of which the larger one was comparable to melon seeds, and after the operation was removed from the living body, there were dead worms in the man's body that were continuously discharged through the drainage tube.
Eat undercooked pork – tapeworms
The most common parasite in pork is tapeworm, if the diet is not careful, eat uncooked pork or raw pork, and the pork happens to have tapeworm, it is easy to be infected and cause tapeworm disease.
There are no obvious symptoms in the early stage of pork tapeworm disease, and as the infection time is prolonged, symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness, and weight loss may occur. If it parasitizes the brain, it can cause epilepsy or even a hernia.
Eat three-minute cooked beef – tapeworms
The main cause of infection with taeniae is infection with undereaten beef with cysticercosis.
There are many people who like to eat undercooked beef, such as steak to eat three points cooked, five points cooked, beef jerky to eat air-dried, and even barbecue restaurants to raw beef as a selling point, which will greatly increase the risk of infection with cow tapeworm. In order to ensure safety, Dr. Chen Jing reminded everyone that beef is still fully cooked.
Raw yellow eel - jaw-mouth nematodes
According to the data, there are as many as 15 kinds of parasites on the yellow eel, including jaw-mouth nematodes, whether it is domestic or wild, and it is very harmful to the human body.
When the jaw-mouth nematode enters the human body, it will skewer around inside, causing different symptoms in different parts, which can seriously lead to organ perforation, bleeding and even epilepsy and paralysis.
Eat shrimp and crab raw - lung flukes
Most of the ways of human infection with lung trematodiasis are raw or semi-raw shrimp and crabs containing cysticercosis. Once infected with lung flukes, it will lead to pulmonary fluke disease, causing cough, chest pain, if the lung fluke further jumps to other organs, it will cause headaches, epilepsy, vision loss and so on.
The Preventive Medicine Outpatient Department of the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention has received 4 cases, which is a family of four in Wenzhou, and usually has the habit of eating drunk shrimp and drunken crabs.
One day, they caught and ate brook crabs in a stream while playing in a scenic spot, and then one of them developed diarrhea and abdominal pain, and was eventually diagnosed with lung trematodiasis. Half a year later, the other three also developed cough, sputum, chest pain and other symptoms, and were eventually diagnosed with lung trematodiasis.
Raw frogs, snakes – Manson's Schizothorax
There are many folk remedies that point out that raw frogs, raw snake bile, etc. can cure diseases, but the truth is that eating them will only cause diseases.
Frogs and snakes may have hidden Schizothorax mansonii in the body, this parasite will swim in the human body, wherever it goes, where there is a problem, it can also be distributed throughout the body, of which the split-brain spinal cord head lice is seriously ill and harmful.
Recently, Sun Dabo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, heard that raw swallowing frogs can strengthen the body, so he caught 5 frogs to eat, and then there were symptoms such as shivering, fever, fatigue, etc., and the body temperature was once burned to 40 degrees, and after examination, the doctor found that sun Dabo had schizothus mansonii in his body.
In short, parasites are very harmful to the human body, and Dr. Chen Jing of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine once reminded in an interview with Xiaokang'er that stay away from parasites must be prevented:
▷ Avoid contact with sick animals and poultry;
▷ Develop healthy eating habits, do not eat raw or undercooked food, and do not drink raw water.
▷ Keep pets carefully and vaccinate pets on time according to regulations. It should be noted that many people have begun to raise foxes, snakes, marmots and other wild animals, and the parasites, bacteria and viruses in these animals are very complex, and contact should be more careful.
Some of the content sources of this article are: Popular Science China, Health Hangzhou, Hangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinhua News Agency
Edit: Wen Jing