February 7, information from Khanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital said that he is actively treating 3 patients in Ninh Hoa town suspected of food poisoning sea urchin; in which 2 patients are stable, the other patient is more severe.
Doctor Nguyen Luong Ky, Head of the Intensive Care Unit – Anti-poison, Khanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital said that the Department received 3 patient last February 5; Up to now, the condition of patient Nghi, born in 2006 and patient NPQ, born in 2004, has been stable. As for the NVS patient, born in 1989, his condition was worse, but on the morning of February 7, he was awake, had a breathing tube, and his vital signs were stable.
Mr. Nguyen Gia Thinh, the father of patient Nghi, said that he told his family to eat sam. I only ate one spoon, but my tongue and lips were numb. When he showed signs of poisoning, his family took him to Ninh Hoa Regional General Hospital, then transferred to Khanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital, where his intestines were washed. Now his condition is stable.
According to the initial report of the Ninh Hoa Town Medical Center, the three patients above are employees at a food service business located at Tran Quy Cap street, Ninh Hoa town, Khanh Hoa province. The patients showed signs of poisoning with the natural toxin present in sam/so. At 21:00 on 4/2 at the restaurant, the owner steamed 2 cooked sam and then grilled with onion fat. In 10 employees of the restaurant, 3 people above have symptoms of lip numbness, nausea; The remaining 7 cases had no abnormal symptoms.
The inspection team of Khanh Hoa Provincial Food Safety and Hygiene Sub-Department took samples and sent them to Pasteur Institute Nha Trang to determine the causative agent. poisoningtemporarily suspending the business to find the cause.
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Through the above incident, doctors recommend some problems when eating seafood. Doctor Nguyen Luong Ky said that every year, the hospital receives many cases of seafood poisoning, especially from February to July, which is the breeding season. The types of seafood that often cause poisoning include sorrel, mud snails, sawtooth snails, puffer fish, devil face crabs… The common feature of these agents is tetrodotoxin poisoning, which affects the nervous system and has the ability to cause poisoning. cause respiratory paralysis, apnea, rapid death.
“Smurfs and maggots are very similar, but they have the poison tetrodotoxin, which is inedible. The shape and size of the child compared to the sam are difficult to distinguish. If people can’t tell the difference, it will be very dangerous because sometimes just eating a little wrong will have symptoms of vomiting, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, paresthesias of hands and feet, worse, respiratory depression, cardiac arrest. , stop breathing, life-threatening. Currently, there is no antidote to tetrodotoxin,” advised Dr. Nguyen Luong Ky.
Toxicology experts also advise people, diners should not arbitrarily buy sambar to eat if they don’t know how to distinguish them from the sorrel, because the two animals have similar shapes, but the sorrel is poisonous.
The incident of food poisoning due to natural toxins in seafood taking place at a restaurant that regularly deals in seafood-related dishes also rang the bell about the origin and identification of fresh food when are imported for sale for the people to enjoy.
Many shop owners and restaurants are knowledgeable about how to distinguish sam from the shark, but there are also places that depend entirely on the import of goods. A restaurant in Nha Trang city said that with the naked eye, it is possible to distinguish, the sam has a pointed tail and the sorrel has a round tail. Therefore, people when eating seafood need to improve their ability to identify which species that cause poisoning is to know. For strange and unknown seafood, they should not be eaten; The dead, nursing, and stale varieties should not be eaten because the toxins will be more.
Phan Sau (VNA/Vietnam+)