Symptoms of crab poisoning

Autumn is the season when crabs are the fattest. Many people like to eat crabs, but eating crabs improperly may lead to poisoning. For example, dead river crabs must not be eaten. If poisoning occurs, it often causes nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. In severe cases, it may even cause vomiting and diarrhea, dehydration, and coma, among other serious hazards.

Symptoms of crab poisoning

1. Mild poisoning

Symptoms of mild poisoning: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain.

2. Severe poisoning

In severe cases, vomiting and diarrhea, dehydration, acid-base imbalance, skin rashes, whole body convulsions, and even coma may occur.

What to do if you get poisoned by eating crabs

Induce vomiting and detoxify

If symptoms of poisoning occur after eating crabs, the poisoned person should be immediately asked to drink a large amount of salt water or soda water, and then two fingers should be pressed against the root of the tongue to induce vomiting. The person can also drink a large amount of warm boiled water and repeatedly induce vomiting on his own to reduce the absorption of toxins. Note that if bloody liquid appears in the vomit, it may be bleeding in the digestive tract or pharynx, so stop inducing vomiting temporarily.

Catharsis and detoxification

If the symptoms of poisoning are mild and last longer, but the patient is in good spirits, you can use rhubarb and senna leaves decocted or taken with boiled water to induce catharsis, so that the toxic substances can be excreted from the body, and take anti-inflammatory drugs orally to achieve the purpose of detoxification.

If the crab poisoning event lasts for a long time, more than 2 to 3 hours, and the patient is in good mental state, you can use 30 grams of rhubarb to boil and take it to promote laxative, or use senna leaves to boil water or take it with water to excrete the toxins from the body as soon as possible; older patients can choose 20 grams of Yuanming powder to take with boiled water.

Drug detoxification

For those with less severe poisoning, you can take some antibacterial drugs orally, or use 6 grams of the Chinese medicine Chuanlian, 3 grams of costus root, and 3 grams of licorice, decocted in water, and after stopping vomiting, take licorice and mung bean soup or sugar and salt water, or sugar tea to detoxify.

Garlic Detoxification

If eating crabs causes poisoning, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and the situation is not very serious, you can mash garlic and drink the garlic juice. Garlic can kill the bacteria that cause food poisoning in the human digestive tract without harming the bacteria that are beneficial to the body. Drink garlic juice and ginger juice together, or mash the garlic, soak it in cold boiled water to remove the residue, add brown sugar and drink it, the detoxification effect will be better.