Eating rice with rice noodles, the man almost died

April 29, 2022 11:06 GMT+7

Patient Duong VT (52 years old, residing in Quang Yen town, Quang Ninh) was admitted to the hospital in a state of weakness in the limbs, numbness in the mouth, and reduced muscle strength to 3/5.

Before that, the patient ate rice with rice noodles. As soon as the patient’s condition was confirmed with seafood poisoning, the doctors quickly took measures to enhance detoxification and active diuresis. After 24 hours, the patient was awake, the muscle strength of the limbs improved.

Shrimp is a type of seafood belonging to the octopus family, as small as the big toe, round head and long tentacles. Because of those characteristics, fishermen call them mini octopus or long-legged octopus.

The dish made the male patient seriously poisoned

In fact, there are many cases of poisoning patients because they mistakenly believe that octopus (mini octopus) with blue-ringed octopus should be used to prepare dishes are recorded at domestic medical facilities.

Doctor Nguyen Sy Manh – Department of Intensive Care & Poison Control, Bai Chay Hospital, said that the case of patient Duong VT who was poisoned, it was likely that he had been hit with tetrodotoxin found in many types of seafood such as sea bream. Blue-spotted squid, blue-ringed octopus…

This toxicity acts on the central nervous system very strongly, paralyzes the central nervous system, has the ability to cause paralysis of the respiratory muscles, stops breathing, and causes rapid death with very low toxic doses.

People who are poisoned within a few minutes after eating may experience sensory disturbances such as numbness of the lips, tongue, face, hands and feet, headache, sweating, abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting, increased salivation. , …

Severe signs include paralysis of motor muscles, respiratory muscles, dilated pupils, respiratory failure, cardiovascular collapse, respiratory arrest, coma, and even death.

Thus, the situation of seafood poisoning appears and becomes severe very quickly, the risk of death is high if not transferred to the hospital for emergency treatment in time.

Previously, Bai Chay Hospital had received many emergency cases of patients with seafood poisoning such as sea bream, or some other foods such as tubers by mistake or intentional eating of processed dishes without knowing it. origin, toxicity.

Therefore, doctors recommend, people need to be careful when processing and using foods.

If a person is found to have food poisoning with symptoms of vomiting, numbness of lips, mouth, feet, hands, lethargy, lethargy, fatigue, etc., the patient should be rushed to the hospital. nearest medical facility for timely first aid.

N. Huyen