1. Eating horseshoe crabs can cause allergic skin rash, redness and itching, and in severe cases, it can lead to anaphylactic shock or fatal toxic reaction, with high poisoning mortality.
2. The meat of horseshoe crab contains a lot of cyclic amide purine, which is an important cause of gout disease.
3. The main component of horseshoe crab plasma is hemocyanin, and every 1ml hemocyanin contains heavy metal organic copper. According to medical research, this heavy metal (Cu2+) mainly accumulates in the liver and kidney with blood circulation after entering the human body. For patients with liver and renal insufficiency, it can accelerate the occurrence and development of hepatocyte necrosis or cirrhosis and cause complications such as renal failure and ammonia poisoning.
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Reasons for the Endangerment of horseshoe crabs
First, medicine: the reagent made of horseshoe crab blood cells can detect endotoxin quickly and sensitively. Chinese limulus amebocyte lysate is one of the main sources of limulus reagent, so it is killed in large quantities.
Second, as food: Chinese horseshoe crabs are caught in thousands of places and sold all over the country, which is regarded as a dish of Chinese food, and the resources are seriously reduced.
In some countries in the world, including some parts of China, horseshoe crabs have different uses, such as baking and making soup. But according to the research of medical circles all over the world, eating horseshoe crabs is very harmful to health and life safety.
1. Limulus amebocyte lysate contains a macromolecular nonspecific protein sensitizer. Eating limulus amebocyte lysate can cause skin allergic macula, redness and itching, and even lead to anaphylactic shock or fatal toxic reaction in severe cases, with high poisoning mortality.
2. The meat of horseshoe crab contains a lot of cyclic amide purine chemicals. Modern medical research believes that when purine substances are not fully metabolized or accumulated in the body, it is an important cause of gout disease.
3. The main component of horseshoe crab plasma is hemocyanin, and the content of heavy metal organic copper (Cu2+) is 0.28~0.3 1mg per 1ml hemocyanin (the time for horseshoe crab to leave water varies). According to the average weight ratio of each horseshoe crab (male and female), the plasma and meat of adult horseshoe crab contain 600~ 1300mg of copper autotype (Cu2+) respectively. According to medical research, this heavy metal (Cu2+) mainly accumulates in the liver and kidney with blood circulation after entering the human body. For patients with liver and renal insufficiency, it can accelerate the occurrence and development of hepatocyte necrosis or cirrhosis and cause complications such as renal failure and ammonia poisoning. In addition, this substance (Cu2+) will also cause hematopoietic dysfunction and affect the normal development of children's nervous system.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia? King crab/horseshoe crab