The symptoms of poisoning of bitter gourd

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Gourd, also known as shuigua, pugua and hulugua, has two kinds of sweetness and bitterness. Sweet Gourd is edible, while bitter gourd contains a plant toxin, alkali glucoside toxin, which can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and lead to its dysfunction. Miseating can cause food poisoning. However, the shape of Sweet Gourd and bitter gourd can not be distinguished, and the toxin is not easy to be destroyed after heating. Bitter gourd contains a plant toxin - bitter gourd element, which stimulates the gastrointestinal tract after miseating, resulting in its dysfunction, causing food poisoning, manifested as nausea, vomiting, abdominal colic, diarrhea, abdominal distension, periumbilical tenderness, dehydration and other symptoms. The body temperature is normal, and the incubation period is generally 3-10 hours. Once found poisoning, timely to the hospital. Let's talk about the symptoms of bitter gourd poisoning.

The symptoms of poisoning of bitter gourd

1. Bitter gourd can't be eaten! Bitter gourd contains a kind of toxin, called alkali glucoside toxin, which is a kind of plant toxin and harmful to human body. Even if it is heated at high temperature, it can't destroy this toxin. Therefore, even if it is cooked, this toxin still exists in large quantities, so eating bitter gourd will cause poisoning! Bitter gourd and ordinary gourd shape is the same, there is no obvious difference, just look at the appearance is difficult to identify, so remind you before cooking gourd must use the tip of the tongue "lick", if it is bitter gourd, we must not eat!

2. If you accidentally eat bitter gourd, you may have some poisoning symptoms after a few hours (serious more than ten minutes). If you are only slightly poisoned, you may have dizziness, nausea, weakness, drowsiness and other symptoms. At this time, you'd better eat some detoxification things, such as drinking some milk, drinking more water, and expelling the toxin as soon as possible, If the symptoms of poisoning can not be relieved, seek medical treatment as soon as possible; If it is more serious, there will be vomiting and diarrhea, and there may be blood in vomit and excreta. In more serious cases, there may be shock or even life-threatening. At this time, we must see a doctor in time. Therefore, bitter gourd must not be eaten. If you eat it by mistake, please see a doctor in time!

3. Some gourds contain alkali glucoside toxin, which may be due to the fact that plants occasionally encounter some conditions in the process of growth, such as melon and vine being trampled or affected by heredity, high temperature, drought, etc., resulting in the self-defense of the plant and producing this toxin.

matters needing attention

It is rare to produce alkali glucoside toxin in bottle gourd, but it may be produced in some Cucurbitaceae vegetables, such as bottle gourd, cucumber and gourd, because of some growth factors.