How to eat cassava poisoning

Cassava, especially the cassava skin and potato heart part contains more toxic ingredients a hydrocyanic acid, so after eating cassava containing toxins, due to a series of hydrolysis results in the body, prompting the blocking of the cellular respiration of oxidation and reduction of electron transfer, the central nervous system is injured, so eat cassava poisoning how to do?

Symptoms of cassava poisoning

Cassava poisoning generally within a few hours after eating, symptoms can be seen in nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, palpitations, cold limbs, general weakness, pale face, eyes rolled up, teeth closed, lips and fingers cyanosis, etc., critical patients can be seen in chest tightness, irritability, limbs tonic convulsions and spasms, respiratory failure, delirium, and finally lead to death.

Emergency treatment

Take measures to quickly remove the residual cassava in the stomach, commonly used methods for vomiting, gastric lavage, etc. Families can use 1:4000 potassium permanganate solution to make the patient as full as possible, and then stimulate the throat, prompting the patient to vomit out the stomach contents, to exclude the residual food in the stomach to prevent the possibility of aggravating the symptoms of poisoning.

Promptly administer oxygen

The critically ill patient should be carried to a place with air circulation quickly, and those who are in a position to do so can be given oxygen, and those who have stopped breathing should be given artificial respiration immediately until the recovery of spontaneous breathing.

Chinese herbal medicine treatment

1. Take 10 grams of cinnamon stick, 9 grams of ocimum sanctum, 15 grams of red peony, 10 grams of peach kernel, 7 grams of safflower and 10 grams of licorice. Put in a casserole, add water, boil until thick, strain the dregs, and use after warming. Take 1-2 times, one dose daily, the course of treatment depends on the condition. 2. 200 grams of small golden leaf herb, 50 grams of sugar. Wash the small gold leaf herb, put it into a pot with appropriate amount of water and boil it until it is thick, strain the dregs, wash it into white sugar and use it after it is cooled, finish it 1-2 times, several doses per day, depending on the condition. 3. Take 24 grams of cedar bark, 50 grams of maple leaves and 30 grams of grapefruit leaves, put them into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil them until thick, remove the dregs and use them after they are warm. Finish in 1-2 times, 1-2 doses daily for 2-3 days, or depending on the condition.

Diet therapy

1. Take some sugar, open into 30% sugar water, that is, every 1000 ml of warm boiling water into 300 grams of sugar, drink at will, the amount, the course of treatment is not limited, in order to heal as degree. 2. Take 500 grams of white radish and 300 grams of cabbage, wash them separately, mash them together, winnow the original juice, wash it into brown sugar and finish it in 1-2 times, 2-3 doses per day, and cure it. 3. Take 120 grams of jujube and 24 grams of licorice, put the two together in a pot, add water and boil until rotten, strain the licorice and jujube kernels for use, finish 1-2 times, 1-2 doses per day, and take 2-3 days.

Eat cassava how to prevent poisoning

1. Cassava mostly contains poison, poor quality varieties contain more toxins, so the best cassava for consumption is to choose high-quality less toxic or non-toxic. 2. fresh cassava white or light red inner skin contains toxins accounted for about 90% of all toxins, so it is generally advisable to remove this layer of inner skin before consumption to reduce the occurrence of poisoning. 3. Cooking cassava is best to open the lid to facilitate the evaporation of toxins, can better prevent the occurrence of poisoning. 4. Cooked cassava can be placed in long running water soaked for 3-5 days, the possibility of poisoning will be even less. 5. The soup left over from cooking cassava should not be eaten, and should not be given to livestock to prevent poisoning.