Find one of the larvae eat ve brought home, five children in Ham Tan, Binh Thuan, vomiting, convulsions, were admitted to hospital emergency.Cicada nymph fungal poisoning can cause hardening of the body and covered with mushrooms.
Children's Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City, said, two days before the 5 patients were transferred to the delay circuit status, myoclonus limbs and dilated pupils. Smallest and largest 3 years old 13 years old. The company has 3 baby siblings.
Relatives said about 10 children of the same cicada pupa dug in the ground up, bringing in food processing. "A few hours later, the child began vomiting and convulsions. We always panic too should take about Ho Chi Minh City," one parent said.From the narrative of the family, with experience in treating some cases of poisoning before, the doctors suspected poisoning patients entering the correct fungal cicada nymph should focus towards detoxification treatment.
"It took almost 4 hours emergencies, the elderly patients in the group began to recover health. A day later, the youngest patients also gradually awake," a doctor said.The doctor said, pupal ve can eat food but vulnerable people can not distinguish if the insect has been poisoned.
Previously, Cho Ray Hospital has received the food poisoning cases due to fungal infection similar ve pupae.In terms of sense, according to doctors, pupal ve infected mushroom body sclerosis, pupal body was covered by a fungus and looks like a mushroom, and pupae are not contaminated soft body intact shape.
To avoid poisoning, parents should instruct children to distinguish these two types of capsules. Especially young adults should not be advised processing curious insects, strange fruit as food.
