Moldy sugarcane is more careful than snake venom Qingming sugarcane juice.

Original title: moldy sugarcane is more poisonous than venomous snakes and can cause death.

Doctors warn against buying moldy sugarcane and drinking cane juice from unknown sources

Beware of "heart sugarcane" (network photo)

Recently, a post entitled "it is more poisonous than a poisonous snake, do not drink this Sugar cane juice before and after the Qingming Festival" has gone viral on the Internet, and in some places there is a folk proverb that "Qingming sugarcane poisoned snakes", which has aroused the doubts of some citizens who like to eat sugar cane. In this regard, the doctor said that "Qingming sugarcane poisoned snake" has been misinterpreted by many netizens, the consumption of sugarcane has little to do with Ching Ming Festival, only eating moldy sugarcane is easy to cause poisoning, fresh sugarcane can be eaten normally.

Citizens have doubts about the saying that "Qingming cane has poisoned snakes".

Over the past few days, the reporter visited Dongyuan, Ganglie and other meat and vegetable markets in the urban area near fruit shops and fruit stalls, and found that most of them sold sugar cane. There are two common kinds of sugarcane in the market, one is dark purple black sugarcane, the other is green sugarcane. "Local sugarcane has been on the market in large quantities since January." A stall owner who sold sugarcane in the post market told the reporter that the local sugarcane was thicker, tasted sweet and delicious, and was more popular with customers. He has been selling sugar cane for several years and has never heard of anyone being poisoned by sugar cane before and after the Qingming Festival.

As for the saying that "Qingming cane poisoned snakes", some citizens also said that they had never heard of it. "I usually like to eat sugarcane. During the season when sugarcane is on the market, I always buy some to taste at home." Aunt Liang, who is buying sugar cane, said that she really did not know whether the sugar cane before and after Ching Ming Festival could be eaten. However, some members of the public have heard of it. "some time ago, I saw a friend repost on Wechat that the sugar cane was poisonous and could not be eaten by Ching Ming Festival. Later, I heard that someone had been poisoned, so I had doubts, and now I dare not eat it." Ms. Xu, a citizen, said.

Serious moldy sugarcane can cause death

"the saying that 'Qingming sugarcane has poisoned snakes' has been misinterpreted by many netizens. It is not that sugarcane before and after Qingming Festival cannot be eaten, but that moldy sugarcane cannot be eaten." Huang Jiansen, an attending nutrition physician at the Municipal Hospital of traditional Chinese Medicine, said that sugarcane itself is not toxic, but because its moisture and sugar are relatively abundant, the temperature rises in spring and the air is humid, sugarcane is prone to mildew if it is not properly preserved. After mildew, the sugarcane will lose its due luster, the quality is soft, and the part is light brown or dark brown, commonly known as "red sugarcane" and "black sugarcane". It has no peculiar smell or mildew smell and wine lees smell.

Huang Yansen said that when sugarcane is molded, it produces a fungus called Nostochlosis, which produces a 3-nitropropionic acid toxin that is a neurotoxin. The content of the toxin in moldy sugarcane is not high at first, but the production rate of the toxin will increase exponentially with the increase of temperature. Once people eat this moldy sugarcane, the toxin is quickly absorbed after entering the human body, causing damage to the central nervous system in a short period of time. The incidence of moldy sugarcane poisoning is urgent, and the incubation period varies from 10 minutes to several hours. Mild symptoms are vomiting, dizziness, some convulsions, hands showing chicken claws, strabismus, spastic paralysis of both lower limbs and other symptoms. Severe cases may leave behind disabilities, and serious cases may die within 1 to 3 days.

Huang Jiansen warned that at present, there is no particularly good treatment for moldy sugarcane poisoning. When consumers buy sugarcane, if they find white floc or villous mold mycelium at both ends of the epidermis, the cross section is red, yellow or black after cutting, with filamentous and sour mildew taste or wine dregs smell, do not buy. In addition, do not buy Sugar cane juice from unknown sources, in case bad merchants sell moldy sugarcane juice, causing poisoning. (reporter Deng Xianzhi)