Pumpkins and cucumbers that are too bitterous may cause poisoning and cause vomiting and alopecia

byJACKELIN SLACK

To protect yourself in plantsOxalic acidYaSolanineThere are many things that contain trace amounts of poisons such as zucchini and pumpkins,CucurbitacinIt contains a kind of steroid, and when eating it may cause symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea. There are few people who think pumpkin goes up to the table and thinks it is "poison", but a case was reported that you had a pumpkin soup and eventually suffer from alopecia.

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Cucurbitacin is a substance with intense bitter taste, which is contained in the part near cotton plants such as cucumber, melon and watermelon, but its usual content is very small. On the other hand, the bitter gourd is characterized by a bitter bitter taste. Vegetables cultivated with human hands also contain cucurbitacin, but if you grow up in a stressful environment such as drought and high temperatures continue, accidentally pollinate with wild plants, the poison level will be higher I will. In rare cases, vegetables of Cucurbitaceae purchased at supermarkets and the like are very bitter, but this is probably contained cucurbitacin for the reasons as described above, and when eating "toxic squash syndrome (poison pumpkin Syndrome) "may cause it. Between 2012 and 2016, 353 people in France reported that "poisoning was caused by plants of the cucurbitaceous family", half of which were poisoned by purchasing vegetables and fruits at the supermarkets I will.

Apart from pumpkins for plants of Cucurbitaceae ... ...

byMark Duffel

Cucumbers and zucchini are included.

byHarshal S. Hirve

People suffering from poisoning cause dehydration symptoms, hypotension, tachycardia, headache, dizziness and the like from diarrhea, bloody stools, vomiting and abdominal pain at times. If you ingest high levels of cucurbitacin,Pulmonary edemaSometimes it happens, but in March 2018JAMA DermatologyIn the case announced at, it caused alopecia.

According to French Philippe Assouly doctor, two women who caused poisoning in Cucurbitaceae plant ingested vegetables at different places and timings, respectively.

One woman had symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea after drinking a bitter pumpkin soup. Up to this point it is the range of usual poisoning symptoms, but in a few weeks the woman reports that the hair has escaped from the scalp and the puddle with lumps. The women's family likewise drank bitter pumpkin soup, but because they did not drink as much as a woman, only one woman experienced depilation.

byMonika Grabkowska

Another woman ate a pumpkin with his family at the table, but because the pumpkin was so bitter, other family members seemed to avoid pumpkins. After 1 hour, the woman was suffering from a severe vomiting symptom over several hours, and a few weeks later, a lot of hair started to escape from the scalp, armpits, and genitalia.


Assouly wrote that there are cases where cell division stops by eating poisonous plants and body hair falls out. However, research on cucurbitacin has not progressed, and the detailed reason why hair loss has occurred is unknown. There are 12 categories of cucurbitacin appearing in various types of cucurbitaceous plants, and these also have influence on cells in the same way. In the 1960 's, researchers are conducting research to use cucurbitacin as a therapeutic agent to kill cancer cells, but since it turned out that it was too toxic for use in medical treatment, research has been stopped afterwards.

When it talks about plants of Cucurbitaceae such as pumpkins that are too bitter, it seems that you can say that it is better for you to leave it without eating it.