This kind of toxin is special, they are extremely resistant to high temperature, and ordinary heating methods at home can not degrade the toxin; Even eating the sea rainbow that has been cooked may lead to food poisoning.
The paralytic toxin contained in poisonous sea rainbow is very toxic, similar to tetrodotoxin and snail. This toxin may not only appear in sea rainbow, but also in shellfish such as scallops and oysters.
When eating shellfish such as Haihong containing paralytic shellfish toxin, it is easy to cause food poisoning, and there will be symptoms such as headache, nausea, limb muscle paralysis, rash, fever and even respiratory arrest.
Prevention of haihong poisoning
1, buy carefully.
Shellfish food such as mussels can be eaten, but try to avoid buying shellfish from red tide areas; At the peak of this red tide outbreak in April and May, it is suggested not to catch or buy (eat) wild shellfish food.
2. Go to a regular place to buy
Whether it is shellfish or other food, you should choose a safe and secure place when buying. Large supermarkets or regular farmers' (seafood) markets will have better hygiene and safety, and the processes of purchasing and packaging will also have strict monitoring and quality control, which is relatively more reassuring.
3. Remove the internal organs before eating.
Shellfish food attacked by paralytic toxin is not much different from ordinary shellfish food from the outside, so we should take precautions during eating.
In all tissues and organs of shellfish, paralytic shellfish poisoning is abundant in digestive glands, skirts, gills, gonads and other parts. Therefore, it is necessary to remove the internal organs of shellfish food before eating, strictly remove its digestive glands and skirts, reduce toxins and reduce the risk of poisoning.
4. Eating meat is ok, and drinking soup is not recommended.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning is a water-soluble biotoxin, which will gradually dissolve into the soup during cooking, so it is not recommended to drink soup.
Moreover, seafood such as shellfish originally belongs to high purine food, and the content of purine in soup is high, which will increase uric acid in the body and increase the risk of hyperuricemia, so it is not recommended to drink it.
Reference to the above content: People's Daily Online-Seafood Online was on fire during the epidemic! Urgent reminder from many places: this seafood has been cautious recently.