Will pufferfish poisoning cause hallucinations?

Many people actually don’t know that it is easy to be poisoned after eating puffer fish. Although some puffer fish are cleaned relatively cleanly, if there is any mistake, the disease will occur half an hour or three hours after the meal. At first, the stomach will feel uncomfortable, accompanied by nausea and vomiting, and general discomfort. In severe cases, shock may occur. At that time, there is no possible hallucination.

1. Have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain or diarrhea.

2. Initially, there may be numbness of the lips, tip of the tongue, and fingertips, followed by numbness of the whole body, drooping eyelids, weakness of the limbs, unsteady walking, ataxia, etc.

3. In severe cases, there may be difficulty breathing, low blood pressure, speech disorders, coma, and finally death from respiratory and circulatory failure.

Treatment method: educate the public that puffer fish is poisonous and cannot be eaten. The sale of puffer fish is strictly prohibited in the market. Freshly caught puffer fish should be processed centrally, and those that are not fresh should be dealt with in a way that is not allowed to be eaten.

The prevention of this disease focuses on strengthening health education and explaining to the public that puffer fish are poisonous and should not be eaten. Fishery units and vegetable markets should conduct strict inspections before selling miscellaneous marine fish, pick out puffer fish, and send them to relevant departments for centralized processing. There is no specific antidote for tetrodotoxin poisoning, but because the toxin is detoxified and excreted very quickly in the body, if the patient has not died within 8 hours of onset, the patient can usually recover. Therefore, once poisoning is discovered, various detoxification and symptomatic treatment measures should be given as soon as possible to help the patient get through the critical period.