4 "killer" specialties you should give up during Tet

There are dishes that are Tet specialties that are loved by many people, but can be extremely harmful to health..

Rare dishes are popular but have a very high risk of causing illness, even leading to death.

Blood pudding

Tiet canh is a fresh dish made from animal blood. This dish has been very popular in Vietnamese cuisine from ancient times to the present.

Blood pudding is a favorite dish of many people. Especially during the traditional Tet holiday, many families still maintain the tradition of "touching pigs" (that is, several families slaughter a pig together) and eat blood pudding and pig intestines in the New Year's Eve meal.

However, the habit of eating this dish should be abandoned because although blood pudding is delicious, the potential health risks in it are too great, it can lead to dangerous diseases, even death.

According to research by scientists: Each bowl of blood pudding is a hotbed of disease with over 10 types of bacteria harmful to humans. Not to mention, if animals are infected, this number will increase many times.

In recent years, the number of people infected with streptococcus suis due to eating raw blood pudding has been increasing. Once a person is infected with streptococcus suis, the disease can progress very quickly.

After only about 12 hours of consuming pig blood pudding, the body shows symptoms such as fever, chills, skin rash, then the patient becomes lethargic, lethargic, comatose, shocked, low blood pressure, necrotic rashes appear on the skin... and the risk of death is very high.

In addition to eating raw blood pudding, people also run the risk of being infected with Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcus aureus is a type of bacteria that contaminates food during the slaughtering process.

This type of staphylococcus can produce many toxins that penetrate the stomach lining, intestines and blood within 4-5 hours, affecting the nerves... leading to symptoms of poisoning, vomiting, diarrhea... If not treated promptly, the patient may die.

Eating raw blood pudding can also cause Salmonella bacteria that cause blood infection and destroy internal organs, Shigella bacteria... and pose a very high risk of bird flu.

Animal blood pudding also contains viruses that cause hepatitis A after 28-30 days and hepatitis E after 40 days.

Another very dangerous virus is the intestinal virus (Polyo) that causes paralysis and lifelong disability. The Astro virus destroys the intestinal mucosa and causes gastritis in humans....

There are many cases of eating raw blood pudding infected with worms and flukes. Some of the most common parasites are liver flukes, hookworms, and roundworms.

Trichinosis is a dangerous disease that causes high fever for a long time, which can lead to vision loss and paralysis of the limbs...

Pig blood pudding can also cause brain tapeworm disease. Patients with pork tapeworm will have epilepsy and convulsions due to the tapeworm pressing on the brain, damaging the brain area.

Thus, the potential risk of disease from blood pudding is very high. Although for many people blood pudding is a favorite dish that is "delicious to look at and delicious to eat", it is extremely dangerous.

Don't assume that the pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese you raise are safe and eat raw blood pudding and other unprocessed dishes.

Raw dishes

Raw beef and goat with lemon, fish salad, and fermented pork rolls are popular dishes among Vietnamese people, but they have a very high risk of causing illness and even death.

According to research by scientists, there are about 50 types of parasitic worms found in aquatic products, some of which can be fatal. Worm eggs in rivers, seas, ponds and lakes are transferred through snails, shrimps, crabs and then hidden deep in fish meat.

With raw dishes like salad, worm eggs still live in the meat and enter the human body through the digestive tract.

The larvae then hatch into worms and begin to cause disease.

In addition to the risk of parasitic infections, raw dishes, if prepared from foods containing staphylococcus, streptococcus, and E.Coli bacteria, can lead to many dangerous diseases.

When suffering from this disease, the patient may have abdominal pain and acute diarrhea, stools may have blood, accompanied by fever or vomiting.

Some severe cases cause acute renal failure with hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is the main cause of death (common in children and the elderly).

In addition, the risk of streptococcal infection from eating raw or undercooked foods is also increasingly common.

Nem chua

Nem chua is also a traditional dish that is loved by many people. The ingredients to make nem chua are fermented raw meat with a few other spices without going through any heat treatment process.

Microorganisms that help the spring rolls ripen grow in the fuel and in the wrapping leaves. These microorganisms come in two groups: beneficial and harmful. The lactic fermentation process helps beneficial microorganisms grow and inhibits harmful microorganisms.

According to experts, nem chua contains bacteria that cause decay, disease-causing bacteria and parasites such as worms.

Although they are inhibited and cannot function, they do not die but will reproduce when conditions are favorable, posing a danger to human health.

Pathogenic organisms that can be found in nem chua include: Salmonella, Shigella, Ecoli, Colifome...

During the process of eating nem, if the nem is moldy, or the moldy wrapping leaves come into direct contact with the nem, you should not eat it, because the toxins from the mold may have passed into the meat. It is best to grill or fry nem chua before eating.

Fresh bamboo shoots

Fresh bamboo shoots contain very high cyanide content, about 230mg/kg of bamboo shoots.

When people eat bamboo shoots containing a lot of cyanide, under the influence of digestive enzymes, cyanide immediately turns into hydrocyanic acid (HCN), which is an extremely toxic substance to the body.

Each kilogram of bamboo shoots contains about 230mg of cyanide, which can cause instant death in two children over one year old.

According to Health and Life