Can puffer eat poison?

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As soon as spring comes, puffer fish begin to move slowly and spawn one after another. This period is also the most toxic period for puffer fish, and it is also a period of frequent incidents of puffer fish poisoning. The news also reports from time to time that some people died of puffer fish poisoning. Since puffer fish is so poisonous, can puffer fish be poisoned? Let's talk about it

Can puffer eat poison?

Puffer fish can be said to be an extremely delicious but highly toxic fish. The main toxic component of puffer fish is tetrodotoxin. As a neurotoxin, people can die if they ingest about 0.5 ~ 3 mg of this toxin. After the outbreak of the toxin, people will have strong pain.

The highly toxic tetrodotoxin contained in the dolphin fish may cause poisoning and numbness of limbs once it is handled wrongly in the cooking process. This numbness will involve numbness and tingling of lips and tongue. The whole person is very uncomfortable, and then vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea will appear. If the treatment is not timely, the toxin will erode the body, People begin to walk difficultly and their pupils dilate until they stop breathing due to respiratory failure.

It is almost well known that tetrodotoxin is contained in the body of puffer fish, but it is also a rare delicacy, so many people are willing to take the risk to taste the flavor of puffer fish. However, for the sake of life safety, it is suggested that the general public should not eat puffer fish as much as possible, so as to avoid poisoning and bring threat to their own life and health.

matters needing attention

If you want to eat puffer fish, you must be cooked by a professional chef. Don't kill puffer fish at home to avoid poisoning. Of course, in our daily life, we should pay more attention to our own poisonous food, such as poisonous mushrooms, germinated potatoes and immature tomatoes, which are not recommended.