What dishes do you usually eat at home?
Chicken stew with mushrooms, pickled pickles, beans fried meat...
Be careful! If you accidentally eat these home-cooked dishes, you can be poisoned or killed.
Come and see if there are any favorites for you and your family!
July-October is a good time to eat wild mushrooms. Many people use wild mushrooms to stew chicken in order to taste the early. Be careful! Wild mushrooms are not something you just want to eat.
According to data released by the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission, from May to July 20, 2020, there have been 273 cases of wild fungal poisoning in Yunnan Province, with 12 deaths, exceeding the number of people affected by the new crown in the province [1].
Recently, there is a woman in Qujing, Yunnan Province, who is on the hot search for "poisoning hallucination after eating wild mushrooms".
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How poisonous are poisonous mushrooms?
Really very toxic!
The toxins of some poisonous mushrooms cannot be decomposed even by high temperature cooking, and there is a high probability that nausea, diarrhea, mental excitement, hallucinations, etc. will occur after accidental ingestion, and serious symptoms such as hemolysis, liver and kidney damage may occur.
What is even more frightening is that 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.
And some poisonous mushrooms are full of "stealth skills" and look like ordinary mushrooms, even if you look at the picture book, it is difficult to recognize.
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Life Saving Cheats:
"If you don't die, you won't die", the safest thing to do is not to eat.
Remember: Do not pick, buy, sell, or eat wild mushrooms that you have not eaten or do not know.
The bean carob family can be described as "prosperous", four seasons of beans, kidney beans, lentils, knife beans, cowpeas, oil beans... It can be described as one of the shoulder handles of home cooking. However, carob poisoning occurs almost every year.
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The Kunming Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau once "warned" that suspected northeast oil bean carob food poisoning incidents have occurred in the city, prohibiting school canteens, unit canteens, and group meals from processing and eating northeast oil bean carob to prevent collective poisoning incidents!
Why is carob toxic?
This is because carob contains a large number of saponins, lentiline, hemocytinins, and protease inhibitors, which are afraid of heat and will remain if not cooked thoroughly, which can make people nauseous, vomit, diarrhea, and in severe cases even cause death [3-4].
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Life Saving Cheats:
If you want to eat beans without poisoning, you must cook them and then eat them!
Remember not to blanch it in boiling water and mix it cold, and you can't be crisp and tender when you fry it. It must be boiled for more than 15 minutes, so that it is fully cooked, loses its original bright green color, and eats without raw taste and bitterness, in order to destroy the toxin [5].
Yellow broccoli, also known as "forgetful grass", can be poisoned.
A few days ago, after eating "fresh yellow cauliflower stir-fried meat shredded", a small couple in Hubei began to have chest tightness and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and both were hospitalized overnight.
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Why is broccoli poisonous?
Eating yellow cauliflower pays attention to "eating dry and not eating fresh", because fresh yellow cauliflower contains a substance called "colchicine", which will oxidize in the body to produce a highly toxic dicopontine, which has a strong irritation to the gastrointestinal tract and will cause vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.
Acute poisoning occurs when adults eat 0.1 to 0.2 mg of colchicine at a time (equivalent to 50 to 100 g of fresh yellow cauliflower) and can cause death if it reaches 6 to 7 mg [6].
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Life Saving Cheats:
Yellow cauliflower is usually blanched and eaten in the sun.
Colchicine is easily soluble in water and not tolerant to high temperatures, and can be removed by boiling water and drying.
If you have to eat fresh yellow cauliflower, you need to remove all the flower buds, soak for 2 hours, blanch the water and then cook, the amount of consumption should be controlled below 50 grams.
It is often said that "seafood is eaten fresh", and raw food has become a fashion, such as raw oysters, sea urchins, salmon. But it's dangerous.
Recently, Huangpu District of Guangzhou City reported a case of vibrio parahaemolyticasis food poisoning, with 48 cases of illness and no deaths.
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What are the risks of eating seafood raw?
Vibrio parahaemolyticis is mostly found in shrimp, shellfish, crabs, cuttlefish, striped fish, yellow croaker, jellyfish and other seafood. If eaten raw and uncooked, the bacteria are not killed, it can cause food poisoning.
The symptoms of poisoning are mainly stomach pain, especially severe pain near the navel, and there are symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, chills and fever.
A small number of patients may experience unconsciousness, cramps, pallor, or cyanosis, which can lead to prostration if rescue is not timely [7].
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Life Saving Cheats:
Heat sterilization: Vibrio parahaemolyticus is not heat-resistant, heated at 56 ° C for 5 minutes, or 90 ° C heated for 1 minute can be killed, so fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish and other seafood should be boiled thoroughly before eating; cold mixing, should be washed and soaked in vinegar for 10 minutes, or blanched in boiling water for several minutes before eating.
Separation of raw and cooked: Knives, cutting boards and other kitchen utensils for raw and cooked food should be separated, and attention should be paid to disinfection to prevent cross-contamination [8].
Read more medical texts: can the black parts of these 8 kinds of seafood be eaten in the end?
It is said that the dishes that every family must have are pickles, but if you eat them incorrectly, something big may happen.
Recently, Zhang Dabo, a 52-year-old in Hangzhou, suddenly became grumpy after dinner, vomiting, incontinence, and his hands and lips became purple. Sent to the hospital emergency department, he was told that it was "nitrite poisoning", and the cause of the poisoning was pickled vegetables.
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Why are pickles poisonous?
Improper pickling of pickles, excessive nitrite in the inside, will affect the oxygen combination in the blood, resulting in poisoned people quickly appear symptoms of general hypoxia, such as lips, nail beds, etc. become brown, blue-brown, blue-black, chest tightness, breathing difficulties and other symptoms, severe cases can be coma, shock, and even death.
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Life Saving Cheats:
To avoid nitrite poisoning, newly pickled vegetables are best eaten after 20 days to avoid the peak period of nitrite concentration; leftovers should be kept at low temperatures, and try to eat as little or no as possible [9].
This "bitter" melon is not a bitter melon, but refers to the bitter gourd melon, gourd and other gourd family plants.
On June 15, after eating bitter gourd melon for half an hour in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, a family of three people in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, successively developed abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms; on June 21, the Sichuan family vomited up and down after eating their own bitter gourd, and food poisoning went to the hospital.
Why are "bitter" melons poisonous?
Plants of the cucurbitaceous family such as zucchini, loofah, urn, cucumber, pumpkin, melon and monk fruit produce a class of bitter toxic substances under special conditions - hyacin.
Cucurbitacin is a highly toxic substance, which will produce strong cytotoxicity in the body, causing a variety of poisoning symptoms, such as vomiting and diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, liver and kidney function damage, hair loss, etc., and even lead to death when severe.
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Life Saving Cheats:
Before making these cucurbitaceae dishes, cut a little and lick them with the tip of your tongue to taste the taste. If there is a bitter taste, throw it away immediately, and even the cut kitchen knife and cutting board should be carefully cleaned.
If you feel bitter after making a dish, don't eat any more bites and pour it out along with the other side dishes on the plate. It's not about going to the fire, it's about killing!
Special Author: Zhu Yuwei | Registered Dietitian
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