During last year's National Day, the emergency department of a hospital in Wenzhou admitted a 76-year-old grandmother with food poisoning. It is reported that the patient suddenly appeared dizziness, nausea, vomiting, breathing difficulties and other symptoms after eating a bean. The situation is critical, and it is necessary to identify what this bean is before it can be prescribed. The emergency department doctor immediately contacted the deputy director of the chinese medicine pharmacy of the hospital, and took pictures of the beans brought by the patient and sent them to him. The pharmacist took a look and quickly identified that this was the seed of the bean potato (also known as sweet potato), which was highly toxic, and then sent the relevant information on detoxification to the emergency department colleagues, and finally saved the patient's life!
The "seed" brought by the patient's family. Courtesy of the hospital
Grandma went up the mountain to collect medicine and mistakenly picked this bean
The patient's grandmother is a Longwan native, who has suffered from high blood pressure for more than 10 years and usually has the habit of picking herbs and decocting them. On the afternoon of October 3, Grandma was preparing to go to the mountains to collect medicine, and when she saw the planted soybean potatoes on the side of the road, she mistakenly thought that these bean potato seeds that looked like pods were edible, so she picked a lot of them and took them home. After Grandma cooked these pods, she peeled off the beans in the middle and ate them, probably eating more than 10 pods and more than 40 beans. Unexpectedly, he experienced symptoms of food poisoning such as nausea and diarrhea on the same day, and then gradually became delirious. The next day, he was found by his family and rushed to the emergency department of the hospital, where he was about delirious for about 9 hours.
After the poisoned variety was quickly identified, the emergency department doctor took corresponding detoxification measures. In the end, after emergency treatment, Grandma turned the crisis into safety. According to the doctor, Grandma can be discharged from the hospital in the near future.
Grandma mistakenly ate the beans is the seed of the bean potato, and the bean potato is commonly known as "sweet potato", the pod shape resembles the four seasons of beans, the seed is also called sweet potato rice, nearly square, yellow-brown, yellow-green, dark red, the form is like soybeans, but flattened than soybeans, sweeter.
But this "sweet potato" is not a sweet potato, the people often call sweet potato "sweet potato", and sweet potato and "sweet potato" (soybean potato) are actually two different things. The edible part of the sweet potato (sweet potato) is its root, and the seeds and stems of the bean potato are highly toxic.
jicama
Sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes should be clearly distinguished
How to distinguish sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes (soybean potatoes)? Sweet potato (soybean potato), sweet potato their name is often worn by Zhang Guan Li, and they are all grown in the ground, and they are all vines, but they do not have a "relative" relationship, sweet potato is the root of the sweet potato of the spinosa family, and sweet potato is the root of the legume plant bean potato.
Soybean potato (sweet potato)
Legumes
sweet potato
Spinosaurs
Although the roots of sweet potato (soybean potato) are edible, but their stems and leaves and seeds contain fish vine ketone, soybean potato ketone, soybean potato poison and other toxic substances, as an insecticide it is a highly exclusive and very environmentally friendly insecticide, but if people eat it by mistake, they will be poisoned, especially the seeds of sweet potato (soybean potato), ingesting 5 to 6 poisonous substances may cause death. Symptoms of poisoning include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, weakness, unsteadiness, decreased blood pressure, etc., which mainly damage the respiratory center and eventually cause respiratory failure and death.
Bean potato flower and bean potato. Photo by Wang Jiansheng
6 people ate it and sent it to the hospital for rescue
On May 30, 2015, a food poisoning incident occurred under Ruian Pond by mistakenly eating soybean potato seeds, 5 adults and 1 child all experienced various degrees of nausea, vomiting, general weakness and numbness in the limbs after eating, one of the male patients had symptoms such as confusion and respiratory cardiac arrest, and died on June 2 of that year, and the rest of the patients were discharged from the hospital after active treatment.
According to the patient Affin (pseudonym), they are tangxia people, sweet potato (soybean potato) is planted by her family, after the sweet potato matured, she saw the sweet potato seeds grow like edamame, thought she could eat, so at noon on May 30, fried, family and neighbors each ate more than a dozen, one of them grabbed a handful to eat more. Ten minutes after eating, some people began to feel nauseous and wanted to vomit, thinking that they had just eaten a bad stomach and did not care.
According to the director of the rescue area of the emergency department of Ruiyi Medical, the hospital has received several cases of poisoning due to accidental eating of soybean potato seeds.
The doctor warmly reminds the public that they do not know what they do not know, such as accidental poisoning, be sure to carry or take pictures of the suspected source of poisoning (so that medical staff can identify the poisoned variety in time), and seek medical treatment as soon as possible.
Retweets remind everyone!
Source: Wenzhou Metropolis Daily Comprehensive Wenzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Ruian released, Ruian People's Hospital, emergency medical information
Copyright belongs to the original work, please contact the original source for reprinting
-END-