What is the symptom that eats kelp arsenism

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For a long time, many people talk about arsenic discoloration when talking about kelp, because they confuse total arsenic with inorganic arsenic. There are two kinds of arsenic in kelp, one is inorganic arsenic, the other is organic arsenic. The toxicity of inorganic arsenic is high, and arsenic trioxide is the most toxic. The lethal dose to human is 1430 mg / kg body weight. Organic arsenic is difficult to be absorbed by human gastrointestinal tract, basically excreted in the original form, almost non-toxic to human. But poisoning can also occur. Now talk about the symptoms of eating kelp arsenic poisoning.

What is the symptom that eats kelp arsenism

Symptom 1: dry mouth and throat, pain, burning, constriction, hoarseness, nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Symptom 2: vomit may have garlic like odor. Severe cases are very similar to cholera. They begin to excrete a large amount of watery feces. Later, they become bloody, or rice swill water mixed with blood. Dehydration, acidosis and shock soon occur. At the same time can have headache, vertigo, irritability, delirium, toxic myocarditis, multiple neuritis, etc.

Symptom 3: a few have epistaxis and skin bleeding. In severe cases, respiratory, circulatory, liver and kidney failure and central neuropathy, dyspnea, convulsion, coma and other critical signs may occur 24 hours to several days after poisoning,

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In addition, there will be excessive keratosis of palm and toe skin, nail tarnish and flat state, thin and brittle, white stripes, liver and myocardial damage.