Let's take a look at the following diagrams
Can you guess what species these are?
Round grunting eyes
Swollen belly
This guy can be instantly discouraged
It can also be "inflated" back to the drum
Did anyone guess it?
It's the pufferfish!
Don't look at it selling cute cute
Some people covet this delicious taste of it
narrow pass! some! mourning! life!
The deliciousness of puffer fish has been heard of, but not everyone dares to eat it. If the puffer fish is not handled properly, it may be poisoned and die after eating it.
However, every year until the puffer fish market season, there are always incidents of poisoning the puffer fish.
Mr. Fan, a restaurateur from Huidong County, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, gave him a puffer fish in late April. Mr. Fan processed it himself and ate it, feeling that it was fishy, and only ate a little and put it down.
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. Probably poisoned, Mr. Fan hurriedly asked his brother to drive straight to Longgang Central Hospital.
The emergency doctor quickly gave Mr. Fan an emergency endotracheal intubation, directly sent him to the iCU for rescue, and then reported the total value of the hospital. 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.
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. The vantage points – small consumption, the downsides – are delayed.
After 14 hours, Mr. Fan began to wake up, with slight movement of the limbs; after 28 hours, he began to have spontaneous breathing; nearly 48 hours later, the extubation was stopped, the limbs moved, and the spontaneous breathing was fully restored.
fortunately
Finally the doctor took Mr. Fan
Taken back from the "Ghost Gate"
But not every time, I'm so lucky
On May 21, 2016, there was a poisoning incident of edible puffer fish in Xixiang Street, Bao'an, Shenzhen, and although the person concerned was urgently treated for medical treatment after the incident, he still died.
According to the notice of the Xixiang Street Office, the party Feng Mou purchased puffer fish from the fish stall of the bazaar at 6 p.m. on May 22 and went to a restaurant for processing. After eating, he became poisoned and was sent to Bao'an People's Hospital for emergency treatment. When he arrived at the hospital, Feng Mou had no independent breathing, and the hospital carried out rescue, but finally died at 9 p.m. due to excessive poisoning.
According to the deceased's mother-in-law Aunt Liu, Feng is more than 30 years old, on the day of the incident, Feng's friend bought more than 3 kilograms of puffer fish in a stall in The Xixiang Baoyuan Market, and then ate it after processing in a nearby restaurant, because the amount of purchase was relatively large, so he sent WeChat to notify Feng to share it.
"The WeChat record on his phone proves that the pufferfish was not bought by him." Aunt Liu suspected that Feng had eaten uncooked puffer fish liver and caused poisoning. "His friend introduced that not long after eating, he felt that his body was not right, and then called his friend and asked them to come and help him take him to the hospital, but the friend said that he would come over after taking a shower, and then he (Feng Mou) couldn't wait."
Aunt Liu introduced that before being admitted to the hospital, Feng told his friend that he was weak, paralyzed, and even could not take a step, and then went to the hospital by himself. Thinking that her son-in-law had suffered an accident at a young age, Aunt Liu was very sad.
Sad examples
Remind us again and again
Don't be greedy for this mouthful
Tetrodotoxin is too strong!
Every year from April to June, puffer fish like to migrate from the sea to the rivers to spawn, and many people will catch it to "taste the early". Since the beginning of early summer, people along the southern coast and along the river have eaten puffer fish in particular.
The toxin in 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.
Once poisoned, be sure to seek medical attention within 1 hour as soon as possible, remove toxins through treatment such as intestinal lavage, and do not delay the best time for treatment.
The reason why puffer fish has been banned from eating in the past is because the toxin of the puffer fish is too strong, and the tetrodotoxin can be summarized with three major characteristics: high toxicity, stable toxicity, and complex distribution in the 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!
Not all breeds of puffer fish can be eaten!
For years, China's policy has been to strictly prohibit the consumption of puffer fish. 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".
However, not anyone wants to raise, want to sell, want to process on the processing, the notice on the puffer fish breeding base, processing enterprises, processing personnel, safe processing technology and other aspects have made strict regulations, puffer fish processing products on the packaging also with a two-dimensional code, accidents can be traced immediately.
In addition, other farmed live puffer fish are prohibited from processing and operating!
Source: Guangzhou Daily