Edible cut incense snail (woven snail) is easy to be poisoned, and the sale is forbidden by the state. What are the symptoms of poisoning after eating?

Incense snail, also known as sea lion snail and small yellow snail, is widely distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas. In recent years, poisoning caused by eating cut snails has been reported from time to time, but there are still many people "one after another" every year. What are the symptoms of snail poisoning?

Woven snails are mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas. They generally live near offshore reefs and at the bottom of sediment. Most people eat woven snails (shelled) in the southeast coastal areas, and the custom of eating snails during festivals is even spread among the Putian people in Fujian. It lives mainly near muddy sand and reefs near the sea. The snail grows and matures around the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

There are symptoms of poisoning after eating for an hour.

Just after 11:00 on the evening of July 8, the Emergency Medical Center of Yinzhou second Hospital admitted such a patient. Xiao Zhao, a 26-year-old girl, felt safe when she ate cut snails several times, but she was poisoned this time.

"this kind of snail has been eaten several times before, and my friends and I are fine." Xiao Zhao said that when she went out for dinner with several friends that night, she didn't even think about it and ordered a cut snail as usual. A few people drank a little wine and chatted happily with the conch. Unexpectedly, about an hour after eating, Xiao Zhao suddenly appeared symptoms such as hand numbness, nausea, dizziness, itching and so on.

Xiao Zhao, who was "hit" for the first time, hurriedly searched the Internet and found that he was the typical symptom of "snail poisoning". Accompanied by friends, Xiao Zhao rushed to Yinzhou second Hospital Emergency Medical Center overnight. After detailed examination, Xiao Zhao was finally diagnosed with snail poisoning, fortunately, after gastric lavage, catharsis, fluid replacement and a series of rescue, has been no serious problem at present.

Symptoms of snail poisoning

Snail poisoning is mainly caused by shellfish nerve paralysis toxin, which can block the transmission of nerve impulses of nerves and skeletal muscle cells and harm human nervous system. After eating, it can cause dizziness, vomiting, numbness of lips and fingers, gastrointestinal pain and other poisoning symptoms. More severe poisoning can cause respiratory paralysis, rescue is not timely, but also may die of respiratory paralysis. The shortest incubation period is 5 minutes and the longest is 4 hours. The mortality rate is extremely high. At present, there is no specific antidote in the treatment.

There is no specific antidote at present.

Wang Houxing, deputy director of the Emergency Medical Center of Yinzhou second Hospital, said that the poisoning of the snail, the scientific name woven snail, is mainly caused by shellfish nerve paralysis toxin, which harms people's nervous system, and severe poisoning can cause respiratory paralysis. If the rescue is not timely, he may be paralyzed to death. The mortality rate is extremely high, and there is no specific antidote in treatment at present.

He reminded the public not to sacrifice their lives to eat poisonous snails. If you have eaten, once there is nausea and abdominal pain in a short period of time, lips, gums, tongue tingling, numbness and other initial symptoms of poisoning, you should immediately go to the hospital to explain the situation and receive treatment.

According to reports, the state expressly forbids any food production and marketing unit to purchase, process and sell cut snails. If consumers find anything, please call 12331 to report in time.