If you are going to try a watermelon, be prepared for the fact that the berry can reward you with some troubles. In order for melon crops to bear fruit earlier and keep pace, many unscrupulous entrepreneurs use fertilizers based on nitrates. Therefore, watermelons, which appeared on the counter in the middle of summer, are not recommended for use. If your patience is not ready for such tests, like another month of waiting, you can take a chance. Autumn watermelons are just as dangerous - the longer they lie, the greater the concentration of toxic substances. It is necessary to be ready for such a phenomenon as poisoning with watermelon, the symptoms appear only a few hours after eating a treat.
Signs of poisoning with watermelon or chronic disease?
Not only nitrates and nitrites can be dangerous. There are watermelons not recommended for elderly people, nursing mothers and young children, as well as for those who have the following chronic diseases:
- gastritis ;
- ulcer;
- kidney stones and pyelonephritis;
- prostate adenoma and various disorders of the genitourinary system;
- diabetes.
Some of these diseases can cause food-like poisoning by watermelon symptoms. If you enter the risk zone and after drinking watermelon you have a bad pop - do not self-medicate, call "ambulance".
Symptoms and treatment of watermelon poisoning
Signs of poisoning with nitrite watermelon and poisoning with nitrate watermelon are very similar: a few hours after the meal there is light nausea, headache, weakness. The situation can be aggravated by diarrhea. If upset stomach continues seizures for 5-10 minutes every half hour, you need to take urgent measures:
- Rinse the stomach with water with a little addition of baking soda or potassium permanganate , causing vomiting.
- Take several tablets of activated carbon, Enterosgel or Smektu.
- If the condition does not improve - call the ambulance.
In the event that you are poisoned with watermelon, the temperature can also jump. Taking a febrifuge in a state of general weakness is dangerous, so consult a doctor immediately.
Not chemistry single
Do you think that the greatest danger when using watermelon is pesticides and herbicides? We are sure that you can poison yourself even with that berry that was grown in natural conditions, without the use of chemical fertilizers and growth accelerators. Have you seen the conditions under which watermelons are sold and transported? To begin with, they are not recommended on the street at all, heavy metal salts from the exhaust gases of machines penetrate even through a dense skin. In addition, the berries, transported in an open car, certainly will not be clean. For this reason, before consuming watermelon it must be thoroughly washed. In no case can one agree that the seller has cut the watermelon to demonstrate a sufficient degree of maturation. On his hands, on a knife, there could be juice from previous berries, on which dust has accumulated, or something pohlesche: intestinal wand, pathogenic microbes and carriers of infections.
Symptoms of food poisoning in this case will be almost the same as when using nitrate watermelon:
- nausea;
- dizziness;
- frequent loose stools;
- weakness;
- elevated temperature.
In especially severe cases, hallucinations and pains in the heart, tachycardia, can begin. Do not play with fate: with the first symptoms of poisoning with watermelon, induce vomiting and take the necessary measures. So, severe consequences can be prevented in advance. If the procedures did not help - call a doctor immediately. If it is a question of the child, to address in "fast" it is necessary, as soon as begins to podtashnivat, that is, at once.