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Paraquat is a dying-inducing pesticide that was originally used to control weeds, but has become a poison that people avoid and is known as the "water of death", and even banned it.
And his inventor Li Dejun said bluntly: "I knew that there was no antidote to it, but I didn't expect that someone would take the initiative to drink it." ”
So is there really no cure for paraquat, and how can a herbicide become a deadly poison?
Herbicide paraquat
Paraquat is actually a chloride, colorless and odorless, can quickly and destructively remove green plants, whether plants or weeds, two to three hours after spraying, the leaves of the plant begin to yellow, three to four days after the plant is basically all dead, and it is indiscriminate weeding.
The herbicide was originally produced in the United Kingdom, and with the development of agriculture on the mainland, the demand for pesticides gradually increased, so paraquat was imported from the United Kingdom, until 1996, when Li Dejun led a team to develop paraquat, and after testing, the mainland began to produce paraquat.
Because paraquat works wonders for weeds and weeds in the field, it is used by farmers to spray paraquat when there are no crops in the harvesting fields.
Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages, paraquat is so lethal that it is effective not only for plants, but also for people, and paraquat is a powerful poison that has no antidote.
Precautions for paraquat include protective measures during pesticide spraying, rubber gloves, masks and overalls, and the poison has a significant effect on the animal's central nervous system, and if taken orally, respiratory failure and death are very likely.
Paraquat is also highly toxic to humans, with a lethal dose of only 3 grams, but it has also been reported that just one gram of paraquat has killed humans, and paraquat is the most harmful to the lungs in humans, with pulmonary edema and pulmonary hemorrhage occurring within 24 hours, leading to respiratory failure and death.
In real life, many frustrated people often want to end their lives with paraquat, which makes paraquat, which was originally only a herbicide, become what people call "water of death".
Paraquat, the "water of death", was banned
Li Dejun, the inventor of paraquat, said in an interview with the media: "I knew there was no antidote to it, but I didn't expect anyone to take the initiative to drink it." ”
It is hard to imagine how Li Dejun was in the mood to say this, after all, he developed paraquat to promote the development of agriculture and increase the production of agricultural products, and he did not expect that so many people would die because of this herbicide.
Pesticides, which were supposed to benefit the people, have become a lifeline for many people, how can this not be regrettable?
According to the director of the emergency department at Sun Yat-sen University, because there are more than a dozen patients poisoned by paraquat every year, very few are rescued, and a 9-year-old boy was criticized by the teacher for arguing with his classmates, so he bought paraquat and drank it in a fit of rage.
The little boy was already in critical condition when he was sent to Zhongshan Hospital, and after rescue, he still failed to pull the child back from the ghost gate.
As a nine-year-old child, he didn't understand anything about how toxic paraquat was, but he paid with his life.
Xie Yuntao, who was 19 years old at the time, also lost his life to paraquat.
After drinking paraquat, Xie Yuntao wanted to fall to his father for help, but his father was so frightened that he had no master, and with the help of his neighbors, he sent Xie Yuntao to the hospital, and after 5 days of rescue, Xie Yuntao was not only out of danger of life, but became more and more serious, and he was already unconscious.
The reason Xie Yuntao drank paraquat was that he wanted to exchange his life for his mother's home, and he just wanted to scare his mother with pesticides, and he did not know the power of paraquat, and Xie Yuntao's father gradually felt powerless during the rescue of his son.
Xie Yuntao said of how he felt when he drank paraquat, as if there was a poisonous snake in his body, which was recklessly and slowly devouring his body.
After more than two weeks of rescue, Xie Yuntao finally died, and his mother never went back, even if he contacted his mother the day after taking the poison, his mother only said that he would rest assured that he would not go back.
Every year, many people like Xie Yuntao and the 9-year-old don't know about the toxicity of paraquat and take paraquat if they want to threaten it, so many people start to oppose paraquat.
Of course, not only on the mainland, but also in the UK, many people lose their lives to paraquat every year.
Paraquat is a banned drug
Because paraquat is highly toxic to humans, there is no specific antidote to it, and many people die from paraquat ingestion of paraquat, so in 2014 the registration and production of paraquat was revoked, and the production of paraquat was stopped, and two years later, the sale and use of paraquat was banned in China.
At that time, people who were registered at the time of registration could still use it, but by 2020 there will be no more paraquat in the country.
In 2020, the mainland also issued a notice stating that only companies that produce paraquat parent drug with a license and registered for pesticide use abroad can produce paraquat, which means that there will be no paraquat in mainland China, and paraquat will become a "banned drug" in mainland China.
Paraquat was originally an agricultural product, used by farmers to control weeds, and his inventor Li Dejun did not expect that a bottle of herbicide would become a life-killing drug for so many people.
epilogue
It is believed that when Li Dejun's research team was studying paraquat, they must have wanted the crops to have a good harvest and grow better, but no one thought that paraquat would have such a lethal power that it would become a "deadly water" for many people.
Eventually, paraquat became a "banned drug" in China, but it also reminded everyone that you only have one life, and you must value your life no matter what it is.