Little Known Dangers of an Exotic Poisonous Fruit: Lessons From Two Cases of Konjac Ingestion

Amorphophallus konjac, often abbreviated to Konjac, is a perennial plant that is not uncommon in parts of Asia where it is cultivated as a food source. However, consumption of the raw plant has been known to be toxic to animals. We report the first human cases of Konjac poisoning in two children aft...

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Autores principales: Pillay, Roshni, Chemban, Faiz Mukthar, Pillay, Vijay V, Rathish, Balram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425544
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11972
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author Pillay, Roshni
Chemban, Faiz Mukthar
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Rathish, Balram
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description Amorphophallus konjac, often abbreviated to Konjac, is a perennial plant that is not uncommon in parts of Asia where it is cultivated as a food source. However, consumption of the raw plant has been known to be toxic to animals. We report the first human cases of Konjac poisoning in two children after accidental ingestion of its seeds.
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spelling pubmed-77903192021-01-08 Little Known Dangers of an Exotic Poisonous Fruit: Lessons From Two Cases of Konjac Ingestion Pillay, Roshni Chemban, Faiz Mukthar Pillay, Vijay V Rathish, Balram Cureus Emergency Medicine Amorphophallus konjac, often abbreviated to Konjac, is a perennial plant that is not uncommon in parts of Asia where it is cultivated as a food source. However, consumption of the raw plant has been known to be toxic to animals. We report the first human cases of Konjac poisoning in two children after accidental ingestion of its seeds. Cureus 2020-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7790319/ /pubmed/33425544 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11972 Text en Copyright © 2020, Pillay et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790319/
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