Boy dies after crayfish meal
By Xu Chi |
January 11, 2011, Tuesday
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A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy in the south province of Guangdong died yesterday after suffering muscle degeneration believed to have been caused by eating crayfish.
The case was the first death connected with the eating of crayfish in the province, officials with Guangdong's Center of Disease Control said.
The parents of Luo Xiong, from Guangdong's Qingyuan City, told Yangcheng Evening News they took their son with them to eat crayfish at a street stall last Wednesday.
Minutes after they got back home, the boy started to complain of pain in his muscles and broke down in tears.
The parents believed he was simply suffering from a cold and tried to cure him with medicine until his symptoms became so serious that they had to send him to a local hospital. There, however, doctors failed to identify the problem.
The boy was sent to the Nanfang Hospital in the provincial capital Guangzhou at 9am on Saturday after he fell into a coma.
His health rapidly deteriorated, according to the newspaper, and his body began sweating excessively.
Doctors at the hospital diagnosed heart and kidney failure as a result of muscle degeneration. He underwent a plasma exchange operation on Sunday night but never regained consciousness.
At least 23 people in the city of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province have been reported as suffering from rapid breakdown of their muscles and acute kidney failure since August last year.
Medical experts have confirmed that the muscle degeneration in those patients were caused by the consumption of crayfish.
The case was the first death connected with the eating of crayfish in the province, officials with Guangdong's Center of Disease Control said.
The parents of Luo Xiong, from Guangdong's Qingyuan City, told Yangcheng Evening News they took their son with them to eat crayfish at a street stall last Wednesday.
Minutes after they got back home, the boy started to complain of pain in his muscles and broke down in tears.
The parents believed he was simply suffering from a cold and tried to cure him with medicine until his symptoms became so serious that they had to send him to a local hospital. There, however, doctors failed to identify the problem.
The boy was sent to the Nanfang Hospital in the provincial capital Guangzhou at 9am on Saturday after he fell into a coma.
His health rapidly deteriorated, according to the newspaper, and his body began sweating excessively.
Doctors at the hospital diagnosed heart and kidney failure as a result of muscle degeneration. He underwent a plasma exchange operation on Sunday night but never regained consciousness.
At least 23 people in the city of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province have been reported as suffering from rapid breakdown of their muscles and acute kidney failure since August last year.
Medical experts have confirmed that the muscle degeneration in those patients were caused by the consumption of crayfish.
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