Eat potato toxic symptom?

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Potatoes contain a toxin called solanine. Eating a very small amount of solanine is not necessarily harmful to the human body, but if you eat 200 mg of solanine (about half a pair of green and germinated potatoes) at a time, you can get sick after 15 minutes to 3 hours. Potatoes in our diet is a common food, storage time is too long, will germinate, if you eat germinated potatoes may lead to food poisoning, eat potatoes poisoning symptoms? Let's talk about it

Eat potato toxic symptom?

The earliest symptoms are mouth and throat itching, upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms. If the symptoms are mild, they will recover through their own detoxification function after 1-2 hours,

If you eat 300-400 mg or more of solanine, the symptoms will be very serious, such as high body temperature and repeated vomiting resulting in water loss, as well as pupil enlargement, fear of light, tinnitus, convulsions, dyspnea, blood pressure drop, a very small number of people may die due to respiratory paralysis.

Potatoes should be stored in a place with low temperature, ventilation and no direct sunlight to prevent sprouts from turning green. For potatoes with few sprouts, the flesh around the sprouts and sprouts should be thoroughly removed. Because solanine is soluble in water, it can be soaked in water for about half an hour.

matters needing attention

We should try our best to keep the potatoes fresh and eat them within a certain period of time to prevent their germination. If most of the skin and meat turn black and green, they can't be eaten to avoid food poisoning. The germinated, green and rotten parts of potatoes should be removed completely. If the green area of potato is large and there are many sprouting parts, it should be thrown away.