Urgent reminder!
Recent
There have been many incidents in Zhangzhou City
Caused by eating mud snails
Food poisoning incidents
Investigated
After investigation, the patient purchased pickled mud snails from mobile vendors, and after eating them, clinical symptoms such as numbness, vomiting, fatigue and other clinical symptoms appeared, and the Zhangzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention detected a high concentration of paralytic shellfish toxins in the remaining mud snails after eating, combined with the epidemiological investigation results, it was preliminarily determined to be a food poisoning incident caused by eating paralyzing shellfish toxin-contaminated mud snails.
What is a mud snail?
Speaking of mud snails
Family in Quanzhou
Surely not unfamiliar
Many people have eaten and even loved to eat!
Smooth snail meat, served with porridge
I wish I could eat more than one bowl!
Mud snails are molluscs of the mollusks Phylum Posterior gill suborder Adiscosa. The shell is ovoid in shape and the shell is thin and brittle. Mud snails are intertidal benthic animals that live on sedimentary or muddy mudflats in low- and moderate-tide areas, crawling on the surface of the tidal flats after low tide, feeding on benthic algae, organic detritus, invertebrate eggs, juveniles and small crustaceans. Mud snails are one of the main molluscs that can be eaten, and their diet is mostly salted and eaten raw.
What is paralytic shellfish poisoning?
What are the symptoms?
Paralytic shellfish poisons can be divided into four categories:
Carbamate toxins, including stone clam toxins (STX), neolithic clam toxins (NEO), knee glucotoxins (GTX);
N-Sulfonylcarbamoyl toxins, including C1, C2, C3, C4, GTX5 (B1) and GTX6 (B2);
Decarbamoyltoxins;
Deoxydecarbamoyl toxins.
Symptoms of shell poisoning are
Initial numbness of the lips, tongue, and fingertips, followed by numbness in the legs, buttocks, and neck, followed by dyskinesia. Symptoms of intoxication vary, but most people are conscious, some patients are accompanied by dizziness, headache, nausea and vomiting, as the course of the disease progresses, breathing difficulties gradually worsen, severe cases can die due to respiratory muscle paralysis, mortality rate of about 5% to 18%.
Need attention!
The occurrence of shellfish toxin poisoning develops rapidly
No specific detoxification method
What to do if you have symptoms of seafood poisoning
Once poisoning occurs after eating seafood, first dial 120 immediately and go to the hospital as soon as possible. Because poisoning is no better than other diseases, such as paralytic shellfish toxin, tetrodotoxin, etc., there is no specific detoxification method, and the toxin can be fatal.
For minor toxins, heavy metals, etc., the human body can discharge itself. If you really like to eat seafood, as long as you don't eat it often, eat a lot, and occasionally eat a small amount to relieve your hunger, it is still no problem. In addition, vegetables and fruits contain more vitamin C, eat more to help the liver detoxification, accelerate the breakdown of toxins; milk, rice soup, etc. can also protect the gastrointestinal tract, so eating vegetables and fruits before eating seafood, drinking some rice soup, or can play a slight relief effect.
Zhangzhou CDC reminds:
Do not buy or eat mud snails that may be contaminated with shellfish toxin in the near future, and be vigilant against paralytic shellfish toxin poisoning. Once you have experienced physical discomfort symptoms after eating seafood such as mud snails, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible and take the initiative to inform the doctor of your dietary history.
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