Blood pudding contains many potential pathogens. People who eat it are at risk of contracting streptococcus, tapeworms, worms, gastrointestinal diseases, meningococcal disease, and even death.
Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen Duy Thinh, Institute of Food Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, said blood pudding is a dish made from living blood so it cannot destroy all bacteria and parasites, especially is the blood of infected pigs, chickens, ducks, goats…
Bacteria from blood pudding enter the body and cause helminths, gastrointestinal diseases, meningococcal disease, and streptococcus. For example, pork tapeworm infection. The tapeworm eggs enter the body and develop into larvae. Pork tapeworm larvae have the ability to penetrate the digestive tract mucosa, reside in all systems from skeletal muscle to cardiac muscle, diaphragm, and appear as tiny particles on the skin like rice pigs. The fluke burrows into the brain, causing the patient to have headaches, nausea, vomiting, and possibly epileptic seizures.
The second most dangerous disease is swine streptococcus. The disease is transmitted directly to humans mainly through the digestive tract by eating pork and products from undercooked disease-carrying pigs (such as blood pudding, spring rolls, spring rolls…) or contact from skin damage.
Not only sick pigs but also healthy animals can harbor streptococcus bacteria. During human slaughter, bacteria from the animal’s throat can stain blood pudding. The bacteria multiply and invade other organs such as meat and lungs. People who eat these uncooked parts are also at risk of infection.
The initial symptoms can be mild and non-specific such as abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting and loose stools, easily making many people subjectively think they are digestive disorders and common food poisoning and should go to the hospital. delay.
More severe cases include headache, high fever, vomiting, decreased consciousness, drowsiness, and necrotic rash on the skin due to sepsis and purulent meningitis. Some critical cases develop quickly and severely with symptoms of septic shock, multiple organ failure, and blood clotting disorders.
Not to mention, when eating blood pudding, the risk of being contaminated with toxins from the blood of animals is very high. The mutilated animal has both black and red blood that the processor cannot distinguish. Black blood is the animal’s toxic waste and is not good for health.
Blood pudding has many potential health risks. Image: Le Tan
In the same opinion, doctor Le Van Thieu, Department of General Infections, Central Tropical Diseases Hospital, said that eating raw, raw dishes, and blood pudding is the cause of helminths entering the body. They can then travel through the bloodstream to the brain and muscles and cause disease.
Many patients believe that “countryside” or “home-raised” pig, duck, and goat blood pudding is clean, so they should regularly consume it, while these dishes still have the risk of containing tapeworms and other dangerous pathogens such as diarrhea. , cholera, dysentery, streptococcus.
In fact, blood pudding is not cool and nourishes the blood, nor does it have any medicinal effect in Oriental medicine as many people mistakenly believe. Moreover, there is no need to eat for a long time, just consuming blood pudding once is still at risk of infection.
Experts recommend that people should keep a clean living environment, eat hygienically, and not eat uncooked food such as fish salad or blood pudding; Always wash your hands with soap before and after going to the toilet. Limit free-range pigs. If you raise pigs, you must comply with manure treatment procedures, or separate the raising location from the living environment; Deworm periodically.
When people experience symptoms such as constant headaches, dizziness, and insomnia, people need to quickly go to medical facilities for examination and treatment.