【Health Science】Don’t touch! Don’t eat! Urgent reminder

March

It’s spring and flowers are blooming

When everything comes back to life

Many people go out for a walk

Many netizens also shared pictures of digging wild vegetables, but reminded everyone:

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Wild vegetables and mushrooms

It's time for vigorous growth

Don’t pick wild vegetables on the roadside

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Urgent reminder! Do not dig or eat wild vegetables casually because you may not recognize the poisonous plants and eat them! Let's take a look at these cases↓
01 Accidentally ingesting highly toxic “Schisandra chinensis” can be fatal <br /> Mr. Zhao from Changsha, Hunan, brought home a bunch of “wild celery” and fried it for his whole family to eat at noon. Since Mr. Zhao’s wife ate a lot of it, she felt nauseous and wanted to vomit soon after the meal and was rushed to the hospital.
The local disease control department later confirmed that the wild vegetable eaten by Mr. Zhao's family was called water celery, which looked very similar to water celery and was highly poisonous. After being eaten by mistake, the mouth would burn, swell, chewing would be difficult, severe diarrhea, slow pulse, difficulty breathing, dilated pupils, and in severe cases, death would occur within more than 10 hours.

0 2 Many people accidentally ate poisonous wild flowers
From March to May 2023, many citizens in Yunnan were rushed to the hospital for eating poisonous wild flowers. According to doctors at the Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University, among the patients with food poisoning admitted to the hospital in March and April, those poisoned by white flowers accounted for the largest number.
"White flower" is also called jade lotus, or mountain lotus. The flower contains protein and carotene, and has the functions of reducing phlegm, relieving cough, lowering blood lipids and blood pressure, and is often picked and eaten. However, the white azalea, which is a twin of the jade lotus, is toxin-containing. The white azalea can also be called the big white flower azalea, also known as the big white flower, the sheep's horn dish, the white flower dish, and the white bean flower. Both the flower and the leaves are poisonous.

0 3 Mistaking Gelsemium elegans for Honeysuckle in Soup, Poisoning <br /> A couple in Shaoguan, Guangdong, mistakenly picked Gelsemium elegans for Honeysuckle and took them home to make soup. As a result, their bodies turned black and they fell into a deep coma. Both were admitted to the ICU.
Gelsemium elegans is widely distributed in southern China and Southeast Asia. It is poisonous throughout the body, especially the roots and leaves. Overdose can cause great harm to the human body and even lead to death. Because its flower shape is similar to honeysuckle and its root is similar to five-fingered peach, it is often eaten by mistake.

Wild vegetables have no special nutritional value

01Are wild vegetables really natural, healthier and more nutritious?
In fact, although most wild vegetables grow naturally, they are not considered green food. The risk of pollution for wild vegetables growing near roads and factories will be greatly increased. Exhaust gas emitted by cars and pollutants in the air will also be deposited on the surface of wild vegetable leaves. Wild vegetables grown in parks, green belts and other places may also have been sprayed with pesticides, etc., and are not safe to eat. In terms of nutrition, although the dietary fiber and vitamin C content of many wild vegetables are higher than cultivated vegetables, because wild vegetables are bitter and there is a potential risk of environmental pollution, people will soak and blanch them before eating. After processing, the nutrients in the wild vegetables themselves will also be lost, and the nutritional value is not necessarily higher than that of ordinary vegetables. In addition, the content of oxalic acid and alkaloids in wild vegetables is relatively high, which will affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients, so wild vegetables do not have any nutritional advantages.
02 Special groups should pay attention to whether eating wild vegetables will cause adverse reactions? In addition to being related to the type of wild vegetables and the amount of consumption, it is also related to personal constitution.
Wild vegetables such as Houttuynia cordata and wild garlic contain a large amount of plant active substances such as volatile oils, which can easily cause allergic reactions; some people with allergies can easily develop solar dermatitis if their skin is exposed to the sun after eating purslane.
In addition, most wild vegetables in spring have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Most wild vegetables are cold foods and are not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.
What should you do if you get poisoned by eating wild vegetables or mushrooms?

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Stop eating, induce vomiting, and seek medical attention - If you experience symptoms of poisoning such as dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. after eating wild vegetables or wild mushrooms, stop eating immediately.

• Induce vomiting promptly using your fingers or other tools.
• Take the remaining wild vegetables, wild mushrooms and vomit and seek medical attention immediately.