Tips to "eliminate" parasitic worm larvae when eating crab, snails, clams, and oysters
(Baonghean.vn) - Seafood is a type of food that contains a lot of worm larvae. Therefore, if not processed properly, it will be harmful to the health of the user.
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| Raw crab meat contains Lungfluke cysts (a type of blood-sucking lungworm, also known as lung leech). If you eat raw crabs, you are very susceptible to lung leech disease. They cause coughing, spitting up blood and can invade the brain, leading to convulsions, even paralysis... |
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| Clean the crab by using a brush to scrub off dirt from the crab legs and claws or soak the crab in salt water for a few hours. Cook at high temperature. |
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| Whales, dolphins, mackerel, salmon... contain a lot of Anisakia roundworm larvae. If eaten, a few hours later, the patient will feel nauseous, vomit and have increasingly severe epigastric pain, sometimes severe abdominal pain accompanied by allergic reactions... |
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| When preparing sea fish, you should remove the fish's internal organs because the worm larvae in fish often exist in the form of spiral worms or tightly coiled, colorless, round nests inside the internal organs. If you eat hot pot, you need to cook it (the meat fibers are firm, there are no more red blood vessels). |
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| Do not eat undercooked food because it can cause stomachache and increase the risk of swallowing harmful worm larvae. |
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| Wash and soak in water for about 3-5 hours to release all the sand and dirt inside, and remove the snail tail or black stomach of the clams before processing. |
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| They will neutralize the cold properties in seafood, limiting stomachaches and diarrhea. In addition, raw garlic and vinegar also have very good antibacterial effects, so they will help eliminate some of the harmful bacteria remaining in seafood. |