Eat water spinach: Things to pay attention to

Chemical soaked spinach, water spinach watering oil or water spinach contaminated by spraying will be dangerous to human health if accidentally eaten.

Hospitalized for eating morning glory

Ms. Xuan Mai (Nui Truc Street - Ba Dinh) said that in the summer, her family often buys morning glory on boiling, stir-frying or eating raw. But her mother-in-law said that she should eat only once a week because water spinach is not good for bones and joints. Ms. Mai again said that she suffered from foot pain for other reasons, not by eating morning glory, but because of the 'afternoon' she also limited buying vegetables to eat. Instead, she often chopped small vegetables with spinach to eat with other vegetables to satisfy her hobby of eating spinach. However, after eating a morning spinach with fish soup, Mai had to go to the emergency room due to going outside and vomiting continuously. At the hospital, based on clinical signs and samples taken for testing, the doctor said she was poisoned with organic phosphates - a chemical in pesticides commonly used for vegetables.

Ms. Thanh Hieu (30 years old, Thuong Tin - Hanoi) said that she and her mother had suffered from food poisoning due to eating morning glory . She recalled that day when she met the family of vegetable sellers, she was very confident that she had clean vegetables with the same certainty as the seller's nails. After the meal, the whole family showed signs of abdominal pain, going out constantly, face re-exhausted. After being taken to the emergency room, the doctor concluded that her home had food poisoning.

Eating raw spinach can be bloated, abdominal pain, allergy, or infection with large trematode parasites . extremely dangerous for health.(Illustration)

In addition to Mai and Ms Hieu, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, there are many cases of poisoning caused by eating morning glory. Most of these patients exhibited dizziness, dizziness, headache, nausea, and abdominal pain. Among cases of severe poisoning and bowel washing, doctors discovered a morning glory in the stomach of all those people.

Eating water spinach should take great care

According to BS. Bach Mai, of the Center for Health Education and Communication, said that spinach itself also contains many vitamins and minerals such as fiber, protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A and vitamin C, threonin, suitcases, leucine . These are essential amino acids for the body, good for people who get sick, eat poorly, and lack of protein. It also helps people to prevent and support diabetes treatment.

Abundant sources of iron in water spinach are a healthy source of green food and also for people with anemia and pregnant women. Besides, spinach also has a laxative effect, stimulates digestion, is effective for people with constipation. According to Oriental medicine, water spinach tastes sweet, light, cool, has heat-relieving effect, detoxification, diuretic, laxative, chrome treatment, pimples .

However, we should not eat raw spinach or eat when the vegetables are not cooked properly because people may have bloating, allergies or abdominal pain. The reason is that in the spinach, there is a large intestinal flukes parasite named Fasciolopsis buski, which is very abundant in aquatic life vegetables including spinach. When entering human body, the eggs of Fasciolopsis buski hatch and develop, causing mild abdominal pain and symptoms of diarrhea, allergies or even chronic gallbladder disease, liver rupture, cirrhosis, liver failure . Therefore, it is best to prevent fluke infection by not eating raw spinach.

Do not eat raw spinach or eat when the vegetables are not cooked well because the person may be bloated, allergic .

In addition, because the water spinach is easy to grow, suitable for all seasons and popular among many people, today, farmers have not risked the use of stimulants, pesticides, and harvest of vegetables on time. sold to the market, planted beard in ponds, lakes, rivers . water sources are polluted so it is very dirty and polluted risk contains many types of helminths, parasites. If you eat raw spinach, these parasites will enter the human body, cling to the intestine through the intestinal wall, get into the blood, blood leads them to all parts of the body . After a while , eggs will hatch into worms that lie there and harm the body. In fact, many cases of serious illnesses have been recorded due to eating and drinking helminths.

According to Oriental medicine, people suffering from painful inflammation, joint pain, gout (gout) and kidney urinary tract infections due to stones and high blood pressure should not eat morning glory ; or when treating medical problems, certain surgical techniques should not eat spinach. In contrast, with osteoporosis patients, low blood pressure eating spinach is still good because of its high calcium content.

According to the Plant Protection Department - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of spinach is the leading vegetable in the leaf vegetables group, there is a risk of high food poisoning, contains a lot of stimulants, pesticides . The use The use of vegetables that contain excess pesticide residues may cause consumers to suffer from chronic poisoning, immunosuppression, and even affect the nervous system.

In order to ensure health, as well as maintain a lot of beneficial vegetables in family meals, we need to ensure hygiene by washing each tip, diluting brine or preferably rinse afterwards to Drain the water into a storage bag in the refrigerator for a few days, then if the amount of medicine will be decomposed.