On December 18, the author learned from the official website of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission that in November, a large-scale food poisoning incident was reported in the province as 3 cases of disease and 1 death due to puffer fish poisoning in Jieyang.
According to the circular, in November 2021 (from 00:00 on November 1 to 24:00 on November 30), 21 prefectures and cities in the province reported 1 public health emergency of general and above level in addition to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and 1 incident of puffer fish food poisoning reported in Jieyang, with 3 cases of illness and 1 death, and the level of the incident was larger.
Pufferfish, commonly known as "pufferfish", are currently known to have more than 30 species of pufferfish, most of which are poisonous and some are lowly toxic. The accumulation and distribution of toxins varies according to the season and location, and the pufferfish are more toxic during spawning and reproduction, and the females are larger than the males, and the toxicity of internal organs, ovaries and blood is the strongest.
In addition, tetrodotoxin is very stable in chemical and thermal properties, boiling, salting or sunbathing, frying, frying, frying, cooking, frying, burning, charcoal and other general cooking methods can not destroy, decompose and dilute it.
What are the symptoms of poisoning by eating puffer fish?
Relevant data show that poisoning will generally occur 10 minutes to 45 minutes after eating puffer fish, and some people will delay the onset of the disease after 3 hours.
Poisoning is first manifested as paralysis of the lips, tip of the tongue, face and limbs, which may be accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc., and then breathing difficulties, convulsions and arrhythmias, and eventually death.
When the poisoned person is dying, his consciousness is mostly clear.
It should be emphasized that for tetrodotoxin poisoning, there is currently no specific detoxification drug, once poisoned, usually can only take vomiting, gastric lavage and other detoxification measures and symptomatic treatment, the success rate of severe treatment is not high.
[Reporter] Tang Chusheng Zhang Bingchun
【Author】 Tang Chusheng; Zhang Bingchun
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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