two China News Network Chongqing two thousand and fourteen year twelve month three Daily News: five The - year-old boy vomited and suffered from stomachache after eating sugar cane. It was found that he was poisoned by eating mouldy sugar cane. reporter three I learned during an interview at the Children's Hospital affiliated to Chongqing Medical University on July, that fortunately, Taotao was found by his father just after he took a few bites, and he didn't continue to eat, so his poisoning symptoms were very mild.

three West China Metropolis News four month six Huang Kai, a villager in Gaochang Town, Yibin County, ate sugar cane at his home. A few hours after eating it, the villager felt dizzy, nauseous and vomiting, and his legs trembled. Then he ran to the toilet several times, leading to collapse and lying in bed. With the help of his neighbors, he was sent to the hospital for treatment, and his life was out of danger after treatment.

Most consumers are concerned about sugarcane poisoning recently? The most concerned issues are:

① Can sugarcane poisoning cause death?

Cane will produce a neurotoxin after mildewing, which is a toxic metabolite produced by a few strains such as Penicillium and Aspergillus 3- Nitropropionic acid. 3- Nitropropionic acid is really a powerful toxin, which has toxic effects on many animals. It is absorbed after entering the human body, and the onset of the disease is acute, which usually lasts from ten minutes to ten hours. In a short time, it will cause damage to the central nervous system, leading to brain edema, headache, convulsions in severe cases, rigidity of limbs, hands and feet like chicken feet, and dilated pupils; Severe cases can lead to ischemia, respiratory failure and death. Some patients who were poisoned by sugarcane toxin left behind sequelae such as language and movement disorders. Statistics show that the spring festival is the year when sugarcane food poisoning events occur, and children are the majority of the poisoned people.

② How much mouldy sugarcane is poisoned?

In fact, you can't imagine how many mouldy sugarcane can be poisoned. The reason is that as long as the mouldy sugarcane is poisoned, the risk of poisoning may be serious or fatal, and even if it is rescued from life danger, there may be sequelae and other conditions left. And after mildewed sugarcane poisoning, there is no specific first-aid medicine. The hospital usually adopts the method of emesis and gastric lavage.

The data shows that the toxin produced by the mildewed sugarcane（ 3- Nitropropionic acid), the general toxic dose of this toxin is twelve point five Mg/kg body weight, that is sixty Dose of poison poisoning for adults weighing kg 0.75g ； twenty The dose of poisoning for a child of kg is 0.5g 。 In fact, the toxin content of mildewed sugarcane depends on the degree of mildewed sugarcane.

③ It's said that sugarcane is more poisonous than snake in Qingming Festival?

In fact, "Qingming Festival" should not be mentioned for sugarcane poisoning. If there is a relationship between Qingming Festival and sugarcane poisoning, it is related to the warming weather. With the rising temperature in spring, mold and other miscellaneous bacteria are suitable for growth and reproduction, which is also the reason why most foods are not easy to preserve at room temperature. This season's sugar cane is easy to mildew, and the mildewed sugar cane has the risk of producing toxins. It is not that the sugar cane after Qingming Festival is more poisonous than the snake poison. In fact, every year, sugar cane poisoning events occur more frequently in two Month to four In August, children were the majority of people poisoned. That is to say, as long as the sugar cane is mouldy, whether before or after the Tomb Sweeping Day or in other seasons, it will lead to "poisoning death".

④ Which sugarcane has potential safety hazards?

Sugarcane with soft texture, discoloration, alcohol taste, long hair and red heart is not recommended. Generally, the mouldy sugarcane has a gray and dark outer skin, soft inner texture, and a musty taste or a taste of distiller's grains and sour and hot. The profile is light yellow, orange red, brown or gray black spots, and sometimes black mold spots or white bacterial film can be seen. In addition, some sugar cane with red heart is not recommended to eat because it has been infected with mycosis before.  

⑤ Can sugarcane juice still be drunk?

Spring is the right season for sugarcane mildew. It is better not to drink the pressed "finished sugarcane juice". If the sugar cane is mouldy, it may produce toxins. The seller may not know the harm of the toxins produced by the mouldy sugar cane, so he would not hesitate to throw the juice for direct pressing. Such sugar cane juice may contain more toxins, and the risk of poisoning will be greater. Of course, if the sugarcane is fresh and free from mildew, it is no problem to buy freshly squeezed sugarcane juice. At present, if you want to drink sugarcane juice, you'd better choose your own sugarcane and buy fresh juice. This article refers to media broadcast, "Public Nutritionist Textbook" and other materials.

This article is original Original author: @ Guangping food saying Deputy Director of the Food Safety Publicity and Education Center of the National Health Work Commission   Former food safety public opinion director of Internet enterprises

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