When is puffer fish delicious?

Spring ~ ~ The puffer fish in spring is the fattest and most delicious ~ ~

"The peach blossoms outside the bamboo are three or two, and the warm ducks by the river are prophets. Artemisia sphaerocephala has short reed buds all over the ground, which is the time for puffer fish to go up. "

The poem above is evidence ~ ~ ~

The ancients began to know how to eat ~ ~ the greatness of our country ~ ~ ~

But ~ spring is the most fertile season for puffer fish and the most abundant season for tetrodotoxin.

Food safety experts remind consumers not to eat puffer fish to prevent poisoning.

The puffer fish contains only one toxin, called tetrodotoxin. Among the body parts of fish, the toxicity of eggs, ovaries, skin and liver is the strongest, while the toxicity of muscles is weak. The toxin contained in puffer fish is relatively stable, and it is not easy to be destroyed by general physical treatment methods. Pickling, sun exposure and general heating cooking can't detoxify. There is no specific rescue drug for puffer fish poisoning patients.

Most symptoms of tetrodotoxin poisoning appear within 30 minutes to 3 hours after eating. At first, symptoms such as dry mouth, nausea and abdominal discomfort appeared. Occurred, followed by numbness of the tip of the tongue, fingers and limbs, general paralysis, stumbling or inability to walk, stiff tongue, language disorder, severe respiratory muscle paralysis to dyspnea, and finally coma and respiratory failure and death.

At present, there is no specific rescue drug for patients with tetrodotoxin poisoning. Animal experiments have proved that prescriptions such as Rhizoma Phragmitis and Radix Glycyrrhizae, which are popular among the people, have only auxiliary effects on mild poisoning.