What are the dangers of eating cockroaches

As one of the four major pests that endanger urban health, cockroaches can be found everywhere in our lives. And some people have a fear of cockroaches, and often appear very scared after seeing cockroaches. The most important point is that cockroaches carry a large number of bacteria. If you accidentally come into contact with cockroaches, you must wash your hands in time to remove the bacteria. But what kind of harm would it cause if a person accidentally eats a cockroach?

The harm of cockroaches to people

1. Health Hazards

Cockroaches have the bad habit of eating, vomiting, and excreting at the same time, and secrete smelly liquid. During their activities, they can not only carry more than 40 pathogens such as Mycobacterium leprae, Yersinia pestis, Shigella dysenteriae, but are also important vectors of intestinal and parasitic diseases. Their secretions and feces contain a variety of carcinogens.

Cockroaches often hide in dark corners such as kitchens, food cabinets, feed storages, and bathroom crevices that are not easily noticed by people. It not only harms stored items such as grain, oil, food, clothing, and books, but also spreads diseases and causes harm to people.

2. Property Hazards

Factory products, store merchandise, and home food can all be contaminated by cockroach bites, causing economic losses. Cockroaches can also easily get into large electrical appliances, computers, instruments and household appliances and chew the circuits, or create short circuits, causing unexpected failures.

Nowadays, more and more households have kitchen appliance failures related to cockroaches, such as microwave ovens, induction cookers, etc. Cockroaches can easily enter household appliances and cause accidents. Therefore, people now also call cockroaches "computer pests".

Cockroaches are important sanitary pests with strong reproductive and survival abilities. They can even survive by eating the dead skin that falls off their bodies.

The harm of cockroaches

(1) What is the main harm that cockroaches cause to humans?

The harm caused by cockroaches to humans is second only to houseflies, and sometimes they are even more annoying. It not only spreads diseases, but also causes allergic reactions in people, such as allergic asthma, dermatitis, etc. It crawls all over food, gnaws clothes, paintings and calligraphy, and its traces can be seen everywhere.

(2) Do cockroaches spread disease?

Cockroaches carry bacteria all over their bodies, and food contaminated by cockroaches can cause people to suffer from severe gastroenteritis, food poisoning or dysentery. It is a carrier of infectious bacteria and viruses. Because it feeds and crawls everywhere, it has a wide range of invasions and a varied diet. It can be found in garbage, toilets, and washrooms, and it can feed on food. If food contaminated by cockroaches is eaten, it is possible to be infected with diseases. Therefore, the harm of diseases spread by cockroaches cannot be ignored.

(3)What diseases can cockroaches spread?

Cockroaches have been shown to carry about 40-50 types of bacteria that are pathogenic to vertebrates, such as Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Yersinia pestis, etc., which can cause food poisoning and spread pathogenic bacteria such as hepatitis, polio, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. It is also the intermediate host of many parasites, and can carry eggs of various worms such as roundworms, duodenal hookworms, beef red nematodes, burn worms, and whipworms. It also carries many protozoa, four of which are pathogenic to humans or animals, such as Entamoeba histolytica.

(4) How do cockroaches cause allergic reactions in people?

Because cockroaches produce smelly secretions when feeding, which ruin the taste of food, people with weak or sensitive constitutions will have various allergic reactions if they come into contact with food contaminated by cockroaches, or cockroach feces and secretions, as well as polluted air.

(5)What damage does cockroaches cause?

Cockroaches spread many diseases. They can get into any household electrical appliances and equipment, causing short circuits and damage to the equipment. They can also burrow into people's ears and cause ear diseases.

(6) Disinfection and prevention measures

Cockroaches like darkness and are afraid of light. They usually hide during the day and are active at night, so you have to seize their activity characteristics to kill them. Make sure every family gets involved and everyone participates.

① Always maintain good indoor and outdoor hygiene, block holes that can be used as habitats for cockroaches, regularly clean and inspect items stacked in kitchens and warehouses, and remove egg traps at any time.

② All kinds of food should be packed and covered, tableware, containers and stoves should be cleaned after use, and leftovers should be cleaned up in time.