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Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review
The gastro enteric toxic effects of the barbel eggs have been described up to two centuries ago, but deliberate or serendipitous ingestion of this fish product still occur, often eliciting a gastrointestinal syndrome usually known as barbel cholera. Barbel cholera is a self-limited gastrointestinal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30657109 http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v89i4.7606 |
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author | Ivan, Comelli Matteo, Riccò Gianfranco, Cervellin |
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description | The gastro enteric toxic effects of the barbel eggs have been described up to two centuries ago, but deliberate or serendipitous ingestion of this fish product still occur, often eliciting a gastrointestinal syndrome usually known as barbel cholera. Barbel cholera is a self-limited gastrointestinal diarrheic syndrome that develops 2 to 4 hours after ingestion of the eggs, lasting up to 12-36 hours, nearly always complicated by vomiting and severe abdominal pain. The disease is usually self-limited, and the prognosis is thus benign even without hospitalization and medical treatment. Rarely, however, barbel cholera may be complicated by massive diarrhea, and the patients can develop bradycardia, oligo-anuria, and eventually hypovolemic shock. In this article we describe a rare case of barbel cholera, highlighting both the diagnostic difficulties in identifying it, and the importance of obtain an accurate history, focused on recently ingested food, thus addressing the clinical management on supportive treatment, expecting symptoms’ improvement usually within 36 hours. (www.actabiomedica.it) |
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spelling | pubmed-65020962019-05-08 Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review Ivan, Comelli Matteo, Riccò Gianfranco, Cervellin Acta Biomed Emergence Medicine - up Date The gastro enteric toxic effects of the barbel eggs have been described up to two centuries ago, but deliberate or serendipitous ingestion of this fish product still occur, often eliciting a gastrointestinal syndrome usually known as barbel cholera. Barbel cholera is a self-limited gastrointestinal diarrheic syndrome that develops 2 to 4 hours after ingestion of the eggs, lasting up to 12-36 hours, nearly always complicated by vomiting and severe abdominal pain. The disease is usually self-limited, and the prognosis is thus benign even without hospitalization and medical treatment. Rarely, however, barbel cholera may be complicated by massive diarrhea, and the patients can develop bradycardia, oligo-anuria, and eventually hypovolemic shock. In this article we describe a rare case of barbel cholera, highlighting both the diagnostic difficulties in identifying it, and the importance of obtain an accurate history, focused on recently ingested food, thus addressing the clinical management on supportive treatment, expecting symptoms’ improvement usually within 36 hours. (www.actabiomedica.it) Mattioli 1885 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6502096/ /pubmed/30657109 http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v89i4.7606 Text en Copyright: © 2018 ACTA BIO MEDICA SOCIETY OF MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCES OF PARMA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License |
spellingShingle | Emergence Medicine - up Date Ivan, Comelli Matteo, Riccò Gianfranco, Cervellin Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review |
title | Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review |
title_full | Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review |
title_fullStr | Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review |
title_full_unstemmed | Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review |
title_short | Barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. Case report and narrative review |
title_sort | barbel cholera, a rare but still possible food-borne poisoning. case report and narrative review |
topic | Emergence Medicine - up Date |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30657109 http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v89i4.7606 |
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