Using healing fish: high risk of death

Eating fishmeal, fish bile for healthy, beautiful skin, liver bile is one of the oral folk remedies that many people use to treat many diseases from children to adults from eye pain to pain, cough Asthma . However, there have been many cases of poisoning due to the use of fish bile.

Cure many diseases?

The carp bile kept circulating in the country is able to cure liver disease, bile, asthma, asthma without clarifying the dose. In the male medicine of the goddess Wisdom, the use of catfish bile cure the following diseases:

Blurred eyes, red eyes pulling the membrane : take small carp bile into the eyes.

Sore throat, throat obstruction caused by the growth of acne in the throat : mixing less bile of processed carp with dried honey for suckling will be.

Children sputum phlegm switch: mix 1 bile carp a little alum has been turned into powder and a few rhubarb with excellent water leaves the river to drink and take chicken feathers to the throat.

Another special cure is to use dried catfish and then swallow the whole gallbladder to cure asthma, jaundice .

Dead from poisoning

Fish are sold at Dong Ba market - Hue
(Artwork: TTD, TTO)

Whether or not the catfish gall can cure the disease is still a rumor. But one thing was very clearly confirmed by the hospital that the use of fish bile is susceptible to poisoning if not promptly emergency will die.

On November 22, 2006, Mr. L.T.T, 46 years old, Xuan Phu commune, Xuan Loc district (Dong Nai) died at Cho Ray hospital. The cause was determined to be poisoned with liver failure, kidney failure, respiratory failure and cardiovascular collapse due to eating intestinal drift fish. Dr. Le Quoc Hung, Department of Tropical Medicine of Cho Ray Hospital said 'We have treated patients for 6 days with the most modern means, slow dialysis but still could not save. The course of the disease is very fast, poisoning causes patients with liver failure, kidney failure and death. '

Kidney Department - Cho Ray Hospital receives treatment for patients with severe renal failure. The reason is that patients with coughing and curing are not at all, so some people only drink raw dry bag of dried honey. The patient swallowed nearly 20 gall bladder bags. Do not know what fish is the fish, the doctor asked relatives to show fish, see the shape like . carp. There are also cases where patients with renal impairment have to be treated for a long time in the hospital just because of using fish bile for supplement, healthy in the style of using bear bile!

Most cases of fish bile poisoning have symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, kidney failure, some cases of late hospitalization for hemodialysis. However, patients who have been poisoned so far have been treated promptly by Cho Ray Hospital so they are not dangerous to life.

Although many people died of bile poisoning, people still use it regularly but a folk remedy! So, on the website of the Ministry of Health, when talking about fish bile, there are warnings about poisoning as follows: many cases of poisoning still occur every year due to the consumption of carp bile that many times come to an emergency at the hospital late. Symptoms of poisoning usually appear 1-2 hours after drinking gallbladder: severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting lasting after 1, 2, 3 days will be less urine, edema due to acute kidney failure, urinary retention , lethargic breathing and death.

Regarding the remedies in Southern medicine, the representative of the Ministry of Health also advised 'These remedies do not specify the dose combined with the oral transmission of the people as a secret! So do not use '.

Dr. Le Quoc Hung reminded the housewives: 'Tetrodotoxin is often found in puffer fish, carp have harmful effects on the nervous system causing fatigue, respiratory failure, behavioral disorders. Therefore, when making food, wash it thoroughly, cook it, it is best to remove the bile, carp fish, drifting fish '.