When eating potatoes, you should take emergency measures in time, and you can induce vomiting, gastric lavage or catharsis immediately after eating. To induce vomiting, chopsticks can be used to stimulate the pharynx. After poisoning, you should drink more boiled water or sugar water. You can also take 1% tannic acid solution, strong tea or vinegar to decompose the toxin solanine contained in potatoes and play a role in detoxification.

In addition to taking these things, you can also take sodium sulfate and magnesium sulfate, about 15 to 20 grams, to induce diarrhea. If conditions permit, intravenous injection of 5% glucose solution can be performed, and intramuscular injection of atropine can be performed if there are symptoms of abdominal pain.

In addition to learning the first aid measures for potato poisoning, we should also pay attention to prevention in our daily diet. We should not eat germinated potatoes. If we want to eat them, we should dig out the sprouting parts and their surroundings, soak the rest in clean water for 30 to 40 minutes, and then cook them before eating them. We can add some vinegar when cooking, which can destroy solanine.