Do not take the meal for the flu season

The Prime Minister has just requested electricity, since now it is strictly forbidden to process and sell all kinds of livestock and poultry soup nationwide.

Blood is also very elaborate

In the afternoon, on Xuan Hong Street, Tan Binh District - Ho Chi Minh City, crowded with people and cars. People at the pub here all know X. shop specializes in making duck dishes, but the first dish is always the soup. Discarding the table to look very nice, look at it is drool immediately. In other places, there is also pig soup (but later it must be a pig!), Goat soup, civet watch, and cat soup . Although the recent bird flu has caused the people to drink 'falter'. mouth 'before ducks, goose, geese . but still' blood 'with pigs, goats, civets, cats, birds . so much!

There are many people who endure for a while to endure it, and then earn a lot of money for Tamiflu, after one tablet and so on. They are not fully aware of the dangers from this soup or are not watchful because of the 'watchful eyes'! Uncontrolled sources of animal diseases . of course, many people do not even know that: bacteria, viruses, poisonous dust are always in the air, flies are caught in and the previous buyer can shoot water. foam on those delicious dishes that can cause food contamination. Eat cold food, soup in the afternoon, evening, go home and fall all the carefree play?

People often only make bloody soup with duck blood, swan, pig, cow, goat, dog . Sometimes people add a little alcohol to fresh blood to help fishy and also to 'lead medicine'. It is important to only drink blood from the extrusion artery. If the stab is not in place, the blood just stagnates or drips, then do not drink. Vietnamese custom is to eat the soup with herbs and peppers. Folk opinion is that the secretion is welded (cooling the abdomen), so chili should be used to reduce welding; herbs for deodorizing fishy, ​​because essential oils of herbs have antibacterial properties.

There are many legends about the soup. In Thien Long Bat set of Kim Dung, Dong Mo character has the right to improve old people, she stripped once every 30 years (like snake skinned). After draining the body, fresh blood must be taken regularly to restore vitality. Because of that, people often say ' eat blood with blood '! It is folk, ' eat anything ', but it does not mean eating mindful or hard-working brains, not being able to supplement ' that '. Today's ' savory culinary ' shops still cut off sparrow and snakes in front of diners; and praising is a positive complement, strengthening vitality.

If the soup is processed to ensure hygiene, is a good food, many good nutrients, especially protein ingredients. Safe nature of blood but need to take blood of growing animals and not sick.

Principles of safe eating

1. Do not eat raw food.Be fully cooked.
2. Be careful with cold meats, sausages, hams, hams . of unknown origin.
3. Wash vegetables with purple medicine, specialized solution.
4. Wash your hands, knives and cutting boards thoroughly before and after use.
5. Regularly clean the refrigerator.
6. Eggs and raw meat stored separately to avoid contamination.

Eating blood for blood or poisoning?

Fresh blood, secretions are all living blood and contain bacteria. But if cooked, it will kill the germ. That's right, but there are some people who like it to eat blood boiled. Use fresh blood, broth, blood boiled are nutritious, rich in protein (due to albumin) and blood tonic thanks to hemoglobin (Hb). Hemoglobin is responsible for receiving oxygen from the lungs leading to organs, so blood in the arteries is redder in the veins. This explains better drinking of fresh blood from arteries than in veins.

But eating more must also watch the season. In the hot season, there is often a rabid dog epidemic. Wild dog virus in living blood is able to enter the body through wounds while having periodontal inflammation, bleeding, gastric and duodenal ulcers. Then this flu season definitely, can't be hated, leave the duck and goose. Even secretion of goats and pigs should not be eaten, because these two types of cattle have recently been plague, despite being suppressed.

Why can't anyone eat chicken soup?

Even before the avian influenza epidemic due to H5N1, no one ate chicken blood, because chicken and chicken droppings in chickens and saliva often had coughing bacteria (so called pertussis) and meningitis. In chicken digestive tract, bacteria of Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella, Shigella, Escherichia coli are available . These bacteria do not cause disease in chickens but give typhoid and human diarrhea. More specifically, people also found Salmonella typhimurium DT 104 and E coli 0157: H7 in the digestive system of chickens with antibiotics, even new antibiotics of the fluoroquinolone group (ciprofloxacin); These strains are very dangerous for pregnant women, the elderly and children.

Avoid getting ridiculous!

Sometimes craving for duck soup too, bloody people have to eat pig soup. Although we know that there is no outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City, but poultry often come from other provinces, so before the Government prohibits the shops from selling soup, the people have not eaten. Anyway, precaution is more, because it is unclear whether bird flu can spread to other species ?! However, no matter what animal it is, it is not advisable to eat too much and often because of the relative amount of salt, there are many organs, not good for the body. As for diabetics, blood pressure does not increase blood sugar, so people with diabetes can still use it. If you need to take blood, you must use blood in moderate amounts for many days before your body can use it properly. But whatever you eat, watch out for it!

Dr. Thuong Vu - Ho Chi Minh City Nutrition Center