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Poisoned with alcohol soaked in zucchini, 2 people hospitalized

Dien Bien Provincial General Hospital has just received 2 cases, who are from the same family, with red skin, agitation, and rapid heartbeat.

According to the patient, on the evening of May 16, while eating with their family, the patients mistakenly drank 3 cups of pickled wine. tubers. After 1 hour, the patient vomited a lot, had numbness of the tongue, discomfort and was taken to the hospital.

After a clinical examination, the doctors diagnosed: The patient had poisoning aconitin due to drinking alcohol soaked tubers with severe arrhythmia, the patient was treated with detoxification, using antiarrhythmic drugs.

Currently, both patients health is stable, is still continuing to be monitored and treated at the Department of Critical Care and Poison Control.

According to Doctor Ho Duy Khanh, Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poisoning, the poison aconitin in the roots and tubers is very toxic, people absolutely do not use it to cook porridge or drink alcohol to soak the tubers. If accidentally swallowed, the symptoms of poisoning often appear early, the patient has a feeling of numbness around the mouth, lips, tongue, extremities, vomiting.

More serious are life-threatening cardiovascular and neurological disorders such as cardiac arrhythmias, convulsions, and hypotension, leading to rapid death if not treated promptly.

Dr. Khanh recommends: People do not process their own tubers for food; Do not drink alcohol soaked tubers. All kinds of alcohol soaked zucchini used for massaging must be clearly labeled, stored carefully, out of reach of children.

When drinking by mistake or showing signs of poisoning, the patient should be quickly taken to the hospital for timely treatment.

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