Recently, the weather in Guangdong Province has been changeable, various wild fungi and plants have entered a period of vigorous growth, and incidents of food poisoning caused by accidentally picking and eating poisonous wild mushrooms, intestinal grasses and other poisonous plants have occurred from time to time. To this end, the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau issued a reminder: In order to prevent the occurrence of poisoning accidents such as accidentally eating wild poisonous mushrooms and broken intestinal grass, please do not pick, eat, produce and sell wild mushrooms and broken intestinal grass by yourself.
Fully understand the harm of poisonous mushrooms and broken intestinal grass
According to the relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, some wild poisonous mushrooms are similar in appearance to edible mushrooms, and identification requires professional knowledge and the use of certain instruments and equipment, which are difficult to distinguish by the naked eye and according to the appearance characteristics such as form, smell, color, etc., and it is very easy to accidentally eat and cause poisoning.
In the wild, non-toxic mushrooms are often mixed with poisonous mushrooms, and non-toxic mushrooms are easily contaminated with poisonous mushroom hyphae, and even non-toxic mushroom species that are partially attached to poisonous plants may also be contaminated with toxicity. So even if you eat wild mushrooms that are drug-free, you are still at risk of poisoning.
The toxins contained in poisonous mushrooms are complex or vary according to region, season, variety and growing conditions, and the incubation period for poisoning is 2 hours to 24 hours, and some are only about 10 minutes. Liver-damaging poisoning caused by accidental consumption of poisonous mushrooms is the most dangerous, manifested by nausea, vomiting, pain in the liver area and other symptoms, and some patients may be accompanied by psychiatric symptoms. At present, there is no specific treatment for poisonous mushroom poisoning, and the symptoms of poisoning are serious, the incidence is urgent, and the mortality rate is high.
Broken intestine grass does not belong to the official name of any kind of plant, but the common name used by people around the country to call some poisonous plants, the most "famous" of which is hook kiss, also known as large tea medicine, the whole plant is highly toxic, the main toxic substance is hook kiss alkaloid, the accidental eater is light breathing difficulties, heavy is fatal. The clinical manifestations of hook-kiss poisoning are mainly neurological symptoms, mainly including respiratory paralysis, dizziness, slurred speech, muscle flaccidity, diplopia, vision loss, sore throat, dysphagia, diarrhea and abdominal pain, mouth foam, nausea and vomiting.
Hook kiss is commonly found in the village, roadside, hillside grass or bush, in the form of vine crawling growth, and buried in the soil of the root system developed, often with the surrounding plant system entangled symbiosis, the shape of its flowers, rhizomes and some commonly used medicinal materials such as "five-fingered peach", "honeysuckle", "golden key", etc. are very similar, for the Guangdong masses who have always used Chinese medicinal materials to soak wine or boil soup drinking habits, it may be due to the mistaken digging of hook kiss roots or mixed with the roots of hook kiss roots, used to soak medicinal wine or soup drinking and cause poisoning, similar cases of poisoning occur from time to time.
Do not pick and eat on your own
Wild mushrooms, wild plants
In order to prevent the occurrence of poisoning accidents such as accidentally eating wild poisonous mushrooms and broken intestinal grass, the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau reminds the general public to do the following:
Not picked. During the spring outing, the general public should not pick wild mushrooms or mushrooms of unknown origin or wild plants out of curiosity or to satisfy the appetite;
Do not buy. Do not buy mushrooms at roadside vendors, even if you buy wild mushrooms in the regular market, you should not let your guard down, especially wild mushrooms that you have not eaten or do not know, do not listen to bias, and buy them easily to eat. Do not buy Chinese herbal medicines of unknown origin;
Do not consume. To avoid food poisoning, families should be cautious about eating wild mushrooms. Do not process and eat wild mushrooms for group meals, catering services, folk tourism, etc., to ensure the safety of food consumption. Before making your own medicine wine and using Chinese herbal medicines to cook soups, you must learn more about the knowledge of medicinal herbs and purchase medicinal materials from formal channels to ensure health and life safety.
All kinds of catering units, canteens and other food operators should also implement the main responsibility, strengthen self-management, strictly import good raw materials, purchase channels should be formal, and do a good job of raw material purchase registration accounts. All kinds of unit canteens, especially school canteens, are strictly forbidden to pick and purchase wild mushrooms and five-fingered peaches (easy to mix with hook-kissed rhizomes), and it is strictly forbidden to use wild mushrooms and five-fingered peaches as food raw materials; edible mushrooms and medicinal and food homologous ingredients should be strictly selected to avoid mixing toxic and harmful substances into them.
Do a good job of emergency treatment of food poisoning
What should I do in case of food poisoning? At present, there is no specific treatment for poisoning such as poisonous mushrooms and intestinal grass. Once the symptoms of suspected poisoning occur after accidentally eating wild mushrooms, wild hook kisses and other wild plants, methods such as vomiting should be used as soon as possible to quickly eliminate toxins. At the same time, after inducing vomiting, you should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible and report to the local health administrative department in time. It is best to bring samples of remaining mushrooms or wild plants with you for further definitive diagnosis.
At the same time, we must be vigilant against the "false healing period" of poisoning. After treatment in some patients, the symptoms of acute gastroenteritis gradually alleviate or even disappear, giving people the illusion of healing, in fact, at this time, toxins are entering the liver and other internal organs through the blood, infringing on the parenchymal organs, and the condition will deteriorate rapidly after one or two days, involving the liver, kidneys, heart, brain and other organs, with liver damage being the most serious. Therefore, when the initial symptoms of poisoning are relieved, they should still stay in the hospital for active treatment and observe for a period of time to ensure that their condition is stable and improved before being discharged.
What are poisonous mushrooms?
Poisonous mushrooms, also known as poisonous mushrooms, refer to large fungi that appear to be poisoned after people eat them. There are about 400 kinds of poisonous mushrooms in the mainland, and more than 100 kinds in Guangdong, and the incidents of poisoning due to accidental consumption of wild poisonous mushrooms occur from time to time every year, and the mortality rate ranks first in the classification of foodborne disease outbreak pathogens.
Common poisonous mushroom species in Guangdong include white poisonous umbrella (deadly amanita), gray pattern amanita, white variant of yellow-lipped amanita, sticky-covered foot-covering mushroom, and clustered silk umbrella (clustered yellow-tough umbrella).
What are the symptoms of accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms?
Poisonous mushrooms are very toxic, and the clinical manifestations of poisoning are complex and diverse.
Most of the symptoms of acute gastroenteritis such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain occur after accidental eating, blurred vision, as well as mental symptoms such as hyperactivity, mental depression, confusion, and hallucinations, and severe symptoms such as hemolysis, liver and kidney damage.
Once similar symptoms appear after accidental ingestion, it is highly suspected of poisonous mushroom poisoning, and it is necessary to go to the hospital immediately for medical treatment, and must not delay, otherwise it is easy to cause serious consequences such as coma and even death.
Note: Be wary of poisoning "false healing period". After treatment, the symptoms of acute gastroenteritis gradually resolve or even disappear in some patients. However, after the toxin is absorbed by the intestine into the blood, it invades the parenchymal organs, and the condition will deteriorate rapidly after 1-2 days, and there will be liver, kidney, heart, brain and other organ damage, especially liver and kidney damage.
Therefore, when the initial symptoms of poisoning are relieved, they should still stay in the hospital for active treatment and observe for a period of time to ensure that their condition is stable and improved before being discharged.
What to do after poisoning occurs?
At present, there is no specific antidote to poisoning poisonous mushrooms, so after poisoning, you should immediately go to a regular hospital for treatment. In addition to:
Fasting: If you are unwell, stop eating mushrooms immediately.
Vomiting: Induce vomiting as soon as possible when the poisoned person is conscious. Vomiting can be caused by pressing the pharynx with a finger or pressing the tongue with an appliance. Try repeatedly and try to vomit out the food in the stomach to reduce toxin absorption.
Seek medical attention: People who have eaten mushrooms together after someone has been poisoned should seek medical attention regardless of whether they have symptoms of poisoning.
Sample retention: Properly store residual mushrooms and other foods so that medical staff can determine the cause of poisoning and symptomatic treatment as soon as possible.
Finally, a reminder
Avoid eating poisonous mushrooms and intestinal grass
The best thing to do is that
Source | Comprehensive Yangcheng Evening News, CCTV News, Guangdong Disease Control, copyright belongs to the original author
Text | Part of the content comes from The Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Ding Ling correspondent Guangdong City Supervisor
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Proofreading | Zhou Yong
Audit | Zhong Chuanfang
Issue | Sun Chaofang