The puffer fish is poisonous after heating.

Experts, tetrodotoxin toxicity, processing methods can not be detoxified, there is no effective antidote to puffer fish poisoning drugs. Tetrodotoxin is a toxic component of puffer fish, 0.5 milligrams can cause death.

And tetrodotoxin is very stable, general heating, boiling, drying and other processing methods can not be detoxified. Tetrodotoxin poisoning onset very quickly, the incubation period is generally only 10 to 45 minutes, the longest but 3 hours.

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Experts from the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (GDCDC) said there are more than 30 species of puffer fish in China, which can be caught along the coasts almost all year round. Puffer fish is generally 70 to 300 millimeters long, the body is short and fat, the body shape is long, round, the head is more square, flat, the body back and side of the spots vary with the species.

It is worth noting that although the vast majority of tetrodotoxin poisoning are eating puffer fish, but tetrodotoxin-containing food is not only a puffer fish, such as clouded naked cheek goby can also cause tetrodotoxin poisoning.

People's Daily Online-Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention called for not eating puffer fish