Puffer fish bulge in danger
Isn't it still a bit silly?
Don't be confused by its appearance, it is actually a lot of people who are highly toxic in order to covet its delicious taste and become "vegetative" and even die because of it! life!
Guangdong Provincial Health Commission Notification:
In February, three large-scale food poisoning incidents occurred in Guangdong, with a cumulative total of 174 reported cases, of which 2 people died of puffer fish poisoning in Jieyang, Guangdong.
According to the latest public health emergency information released by the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission in February, in February 2021, 21 prefectures and cities in the province reported 3 public health emergencies of general and above level in addition to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, all of which were larger-level food poisoning incidents, with a total of 174 reported cases and 2 deaths.
Among them, 2 cases were puffer fish poisoning incidents reported in Jieyang City, with a cumulative incidence of 2 people and 2 deaths, and 1 was a foodborne disease cluster incident reported in Guangzhou City, with 172 cases.
In fact, the tragic occurrence of poisoning due to eating puffer fish has occurred more than once,
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Huizhou man was poisoned after eating pufferfish
Mr. Fan, a restaurateur from Huidong County, Huizhou City, gave him a puffer fish in late April last year. Mr. Fan processed it himself and ate it, feeling that it was fishy, and only ate a little and put it down.
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But what he didn't expect was that after half an hour, Mr. Fan felt numbness in his hands and feet, inconvenient movements, and some difficulty in speaking and breathing.
After arriving at the hospital, the emergency doctor quickly gave Mr. Fan an emergency endotracheal intubation and sent him directly to the iCU for rescue. According to the doctor, when the patient was admitted to the hospital in the early morning of the same day, his spontaneous breathing basically stopped, he was comatose, and he was paralyzed.
What makes the medical staff most devastated is that there is no antidote to this poison!
The measures that doctors can take are breathing support, trying their best to keep their lives, rehydrating diuretics, and striving to excrete a little poison. Fortunately, in the end, the doctor took Mr. Fan back from the "ghost gate", but in fact, he was not so lucky every time.
It can be fatal as soon as 1.5 hours, and there is currently no specific antidote
For many years, our government has strictly banned the consumption of pufferfish. In 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China jointly issued the Notice on Conditionally Liberalizing the Processing and Operation of The Cultured Redfin Oriental Pufferfish and the Breeding of Dark-veined Oriental Pufferfish, which lifted the ban on the two varieties of artificially farmed "Redfin Oriental Pufferfish" and "Dark-veined Oriental Pufferfish".
The farmed puffer fish also needs to be processed by specially qualified enterprises, and the requirements are extremely high
Experts also pointed out that professionally treated puffer fish are not without toxicity, but that excessive consumption of excessive consumption within the range of 2.2 milligrams per kilogram will still cause harm to the body
It is reported that the toxin on the pufferfish is 1000 times more toxic than sodium cyanide, and 0.5 mg is enough to cause death. The poisoning process is rapid and intense, with an incubation period of only 10 minutes to 3 hours, and death may occur within 4-6 hours after the onset of the disease, and the fastest is 1.5 hours.
note! Once the puffer fish is poisoned by mistake, it is necessary to send it to the hospital within 1 hour
Once poisoned, be sure to seek medical attention as soon as possible to remove the toxin through treatment such as intestinal lavage, and do not delay the best time for treatment
Illness from the mouth to eat, everyone must not be careless
Tetrodotoxin can be summarized as having three major characteristics: high toxicity, stable toxicity, and complex distribution in puffer fish.
Toxicity is stable
Whether you are salted or sunburned, fried, fried, fried, cooked, fried, burned, charcoal roasted, even if you use your housekeeping skills and take out all eighteen martial arts, this tetrodotoxin is still very stable, and the structure is difficult to destroy. Tetrodotoxin, even if you use all the pressure cookers in your house, it is still useless.
Toxicity is complexly distributed in puffer fish
The third feature of tetrodotoxin is that the distribution of the toxin in the puffer fish is complex, and the distribution of the toxin in different puffer fish is also different. There are more than 120 species of puffer fish, many of which are similar in appearance, but the internal toxicity distribution is very different.
Some puffer fish have highly toxic internal organs and muscle parts, but some puffer fish, all over the body, even the belt meat are all poisonous, and no part can be eaten.
There are also some pufferfish, such as insect-striped oriental pufferfish, lead-spotted oriental pufferfish, these oriental pufferfish, the muscle is poisonous. When you can't identify its kind, you must not eat it!
There is also a pufferfish toxin in the weaver snail
Experts say that pufferfish toxins are not only present in pufferfish, but may also contain this toxin in other marine organisms, such as gobies and snails.
In particular, the weaved snail, commonly known as the sea snail, sea lion snail, wheat snail, white snail, cutting snail, small yellow snail, etc., is often eaten in some areas, especially along the southeast coast, and poisoning incidents also occur from time to time.
Source: Shanghai Jing'an Comprehensive Wen Wei Po, Guangzhou Daily, News Workshop WeChat public account
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