Silkworm bean disease is called erythrocyte-glucose phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in medicine. This is a hemolytic reactive disease with jaundice and anemia as the main manifestations, which is caused by the sensitivity of human body to "toxic substances" in broad beans after eating them or contacting their pollen. This disease is more common in children, and male patients account for more than 90%. Clinical manifestations: symptoms began to appear after eating broad beans 1 ~ 2 days. Early symptoms include anorexia, fatigue, low fever, nausea and uncertain abdominal pain, followed by yellow staining of canthus and hemolytic jaundice, soy sauce color urine and anemia. Severe cases include urine ball, shock, cardiac function and renal failure, and fixed eye deviation can also be seen when severe hypoxia occurs. At this time, if you don't rescue in time, you can die within one or two days. Therefore, patients with the above symptoms should be sent to the hospital immediately for treatment without delay to avoid accidents.

Silkworm bean disease is very harmful to human body, but it can be prevented. As long as people (especially children) don't eat fresh broad beans raw, eating a lot of broad beans at a time or eating them continuously can be avoided. In addition, patients with hereditary red cell deficiency, hemorrhoid bleeding, dyspepsia, chronic colitis, uremia and so on. Don't eat broad beans. Eating fresh broad beans should be cooked at high temperature for a long time. When eating dried broad beans, it is necessary to soak them in water for many times and then cook them for a long time, which can also destroy the toxic substances in them.