Gia Lai: Eating poisoned steamed toad eggs, 1 person critical, 1 person did not survive

Recently, an incident of poisoning occurred in Klăh Bang village in Gia Lai province. Accordingly, the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene of Gia Lai province said that it has just recorded a case of food poisoning caused by eating toad eggs that caused 1 person to not survive, 1 person critically.

According to information from Dan Tri newspaper, on December 2, the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene of Gia Lai province said that it had just recorded a case of food poisoning caused by eating toad eggs that caused 1 person to not survive, 1 person critically.

The incident took place in Klăh Bang village (Ia Bang commune, Chu Prang district). Around 3:00 p.m. on November 30, Kpa Chuong (19 years old) and Ro Mot Ai (20 years old) and Ro Mot Tung (17 years old) worked in the village. At this time, the group caught a toad, so they took eggs to steam.

According to information from Tien Phong newspaper, at 16:30 on the same day, Kpa Chuong and Ro Mot Tong were taken to the emergency room by family members with symptoms of nausea and dizziness. Ro Mo Ai only tasted a few toad eggs, so he only showed mild symptoms and caused himself to vomit, and did not go to the hospital. The R.C.A. had only tasted a few toad eggs, so he had only mild symptoms and induced vomiting, and did not go to the hospital.

Information from the Provincial General Hospital, thanks to timely first aid, R.C.S. is now temporarily out of critical condition, and is being closely monitored.

In a similar case, according to a source from Health and Life newspaper, on October 2, the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison Department of Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital Dong Hoi (Quang Binh) admitted a young man to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and nausea after eating toad eggs for about 30 minutes. That patient is D.T.D., 24 years old, residing in Mai Thuy commune, Le Thuy district (Quang Binh).

Through medical history, doctors said that the patient went to abduction to make meat and ate eggs, After eating the toad eggs for about 30 minutes, the young man felt abdominal pain, nausea, then appeared arrhythmias and circulatory arrest. The patient was admitted to the hospital by family members in a state of alertness, general fatigue, headache. Despite being treated by dedicated medics, the young man did not survive.

Doctors diagnosed, the patient was poisoned by Bufodienolid, Bufotoxin and some other substances as a result of eating toad eggs. Doctors conduct gastric lavage, take activated carbon, atropine. After an hour the patient appears ventricular fibrillation, circulatory arrest. Despite emergency circulatory arrest and pacemaker placement, the patient did not recover.

Dr. Le Hong Nhan - Deputy Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poison said: This is a case of severe patients because symptoms of poisoning appear soon after eating. Toad venom is very rapidly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract leading to neurological, cardiovascular damage and hyperkalemia. When ventricular fibrillation occurs, most patients do not survive.

Dr. Nhan recommends that toads can poison its entire life cycle, from eggs, tadpoles, small toads to adult toads. The poisonous gland of the toad is located covering the entire skin and in the parotid glands, internal organs, eggs. Systemic intoxication occurs when eating organs and eggs, children licking the toad, holding the toad when the skin hurts or putting the toad in the mouth or toxins splashed into the eyes...

Toad venom poisoning has a very severe prognosis, the risk of not passing is very high. Therefore, it is best to eat only toad meat that has been firmly processed properly, absolutely do not eat eggs, skin, offal of toads. In the presence of symptoms of poisoning, the patient should be immediately transferred to a medical institution for timely emergency.

Also according to the Health and Life newspaper, earlier, on April 25, the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital Dong Hoi said that on April 24, the unit received 3 patients from Bru - Van Kieu compatriots who were members of a family including a 40-year-old father, a 36-year-old mother and a 20-year-old son, residing in Ngan Thuy commune, Le Thuy district (Quang Binh) hospitalized with fatigue, chest tightness, shortness of breath, abdominal pain...

The patient's family members said that they saw toads in their garden, so the mother caught and slaughtered the meat for morning food. After eating toad meat for about 30 minutes, all 3 people appeared vomiting, loose stools ... and taken to the emergency room.

After receiving the patient, assessing the poisoning caused by eating toad meat, the doctors at the Department of Internal Gastroenterology - Clinical Hematology quickly conducted emergency treatment for the patients. All 3 patients passed the critical condition and continued to receive follow-up treatment.

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