Today, the Ningbo Municipal Market Supervision Bureau issued a consumer safety warning: spring and summer is the mature period of puffer fish, round tailed horseshoe crab and cut snail, it is strictly forbidden for any unit or individual to process and operate puffer fish, round tail crab and cutting snail and their products, and if it is found that there are operators illegally selling, the public can call 12331 (96311) to report.
In recent years, reports of citizens being poisoned after eating puffer fish, round-tailed horseshoe crab and snail cutting have been reported frequently, and in severe cases, they have even lost their lives. Consumers are cautioned not to accidentally eat or knowingly risk consuming puffer fish, round-tailed horseshoe crab and snails and their products.
Xiaobu offers tips for the reference of consumers, if there is accidental eating and feel that there are symptoms of poisoning, immediately use fingers and chopsticks to stimulate the throat to induce vomiting, and send it to the hospital for rescue as soon as possible.
Tip 1 puffer fish
The toxicity of puffer fish is caused by tetrodotoxin in its body. Tetrodotoxin is a non-protein, highly active neurotoxin that is slightly soluble in water, easily soluble in vinegar, and extremely stable to light and heat, even boiling water at 100 ° C can not completely destroy it. After people consume tetrodotoxin, the incubation period is 0.5 to 6 hours, and the light is headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, followed by sensory nerve paralysis, and respiratory failure in severe cases. The case fatality rate of puffer fish poisoning is 40% to 50%, and death can be as early as 10 minutes after the onset of illness. Because the human body does not develop immunity to tetrodotoxin, there is currently no effective antidote to tetrodotoxin, and there is no specific therapeutic drug.
2 round-tailed horseshoe crabs
It has a toxin suspected of being similar to puffer fish, which is easy to cause neurotic poisoning after consumption, and mild poisoning will have symptoms such as limb paralysis, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, etc., and serious symptoms will cause respiratory system, liver and kidney function failure, which can lead to coma and death. At present, there is no specific drug to treat this toxin, only the first time to induce vomiting, gastric lavage, and send to the hospital.
3 cut the snails
The scientific name of the weaved snail, also known as the sea lion snail, the small yellow snail, is widely distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas. Snail poisoning is mainly caused by shellfish nerve paralysis toxin, can block the conduction of nerve impulses in nerves and skeletal muscle cells, damage the human nervous system, after eating can cause dizziness, vomiting, lip and finger numbness, gastrointestinal pain and other poisoning symptoms, more serious poisoning can cause respiratory paralysis, rescue is not timely, may also be respiratory paralysis death. The incubation period is as short as 5 minutes and as long as 4 hours, the mortality rate is extremely high, and there is currently no specific antidote in treatment.