What should I do if I eat moldy things?

Poisoning symptoms: nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fever, abdominal pain and other symptoms occur after eating moldy food or food contaminated by mycotoxin, and can be cured after 1~2 days. However, after eating the food contaminated by aflatoxin, hepatomegaly, pain in liver area, jaundice, ascites, edema of lower limbs, abnormal liver function, cardiomegaly, pulmonary edema, even convulsion and coma will occur 2-3 weeks later, and most patients will have massive hemorrhage in digestive tract before death. Emergency treatment: Stop eating food contaminated by mycotoxin immediately. Mild patients don't need special treatment, and generally can recover within 1~3 days. People with poisoning symptoms should go to the hospital as soon as possible.

1. In daily life, the foods that are easy to mold mainly include: rice, peanuts, corn, cakes processed with grain, cooked food such as rice and steamed bread.

2. Clever judgment of one color and two flavors: discoloration is the most important and directly observable aspect of the appearance and shape of moldy food, followed by texture. Take several common moldy foods as examples: the surface of moldy rice is light yellow, light gray or green, and the texture becomes soft and easy to crush; After the leftover steamed bread and meals are preserved for a few days, the surface may grow gray, yellow or green villous mold; Pastry stored for too long may have green, white or black spots on its surface; After the peanuts are moldy, the red clothes are peeled off and the color turns yellow. Many moldy foods can smell a musty smell. If these changes are observed in food, it can be preliminarily judged that the food has been contaminated by mold and should not be eaten again.

3. It is not feasible to remove mold at high temperature. We should learn to treat moldy food correctly and treat it differently. Some people think that obviously moldy food can be eaten after boiling at high temperature. This is a very wrong idea. Because ordinary cooking can't destroy mycotoxins such as aflatoxin, obviously moldy food must not be eaten. For food with slight mildew, effective detoxification measures can be taken, including careful elutriation, such as rubbing with hands, washing with water, or adding alkali, or cooking in a pressure cooker.

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