Ciguaterra attack: "I saw more nothing, all scraped me."
V. D. France-Antilles Guadeloupe25.05.2012
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.a ... 171389.phpRaphaëlla Lockel, and several others were seriously poisoned by fish purchased at the basin. This is most likely a ciguaterra.
Because she did not want to be told that she has poisoned fish. Because too many people became very ill, as it Raphaëlla Lockel (77 years old) reflects from the bed of the Polyclinic of Pointe-à-Pitre. "I do not wish to hidden it."
Ms. Lockel, hospitalized since Monday, is still very low. "My legs, my back, my hands." All is numb. I have pain everywhere. Behind my neck, my head... I feel acute weakness. On my legs and my feet, it is as if had been me pepper. It scratches me even in my nose. And, as someone who has been drinking rum, I am dizzy. I have my ears buzzing. »
THE SNAPPER
For Raphaëlla Lockel, it's "like a curse." To make me sick like that. "It, but also three other persons who developed the same symptoms (read here). After she has prepared fish.
Raphaëlla Lockel kitchen sometimes, to the application. For friends, knowledge. This time, it was for a family dinner, Sunday, April 22. The day before, she went buy his fish to the camber of Pointe-à-Pitre. The snapper. A large for the guests. And a small, for it. "Everything was about 7 kg."
SEVERE SYMPTOMS
The large, it was cleaned, seasoned and put cool while waiting for the grill, the next day. His own, it has frozen it. Shortly after, she learned that many of the guests had felt very evil after the meal. "Someone told me that they had fallen sick."
At the time, it did not link. "I said to myself that it could not come and fish." It seemed very fresh. I well seasoned, lemon... "Until it also fell very ill. After having eaten his small snapper, may 10.
Very quickly, the symptoms were very violent. "1 hour after the meal, I felt that I needed to go to the bathroom." I vomissais, I vomissais... "Raphaëlla Lockel was also taken serious diarrhea. For nearly 3 hours. I couldn't more getting up. And then it has brushed it across. "My legs, my feet, my toes, my hands, my back..." Everything scraped me at the same time. After, it was the fatigue. »
Raphaëlla Lockel sent a friend to the pharmacy. "They said that if it lasted more than two days, it had to go and see the doctor." But his condition is not managed and even empire. She temporarily loses the view. "The person I was taken to the doctor, I told him that I saw more nothing." And then, I was paralyzed. I couldn't lift the leg. To walk, someone was. »
The doctor she diagnosed a ciguaterra. "He told me that he would prevent health authorities (1)." They called me, and Saturday, they came to search the rest of the fish for analysis. »
Raphaëlla Lockel found the view, even if it said "do not see yet very well". But not health. It is not known how she will be hospitalized. She plans to file a complaint.
*As all foodborne collective (ACIT), the ciguaterra must be reported to health authorities.
-In question, a micro-organism
In island waters of the globe housing an important coral reef ecosystem is a sporadic toxicity phenomenon called ciguatera, also known as the popular name of "scratch". It is only recently that the scientific world has started to explain this phenomenon: studies have shown the presence, in finding fish, a toxin specific, very active, the ciguatoxin.
It originates from a marine microorganism, Gambierdiscus toxicus, a unicellular alga growing on dead corals. Eaten by herbivorous fish, this microorganism contaminate entire food chain, the concentration of toxins increasing at each trophic stage. Are therefore particularly dangerous large benthic Carnivore fish, of which the best known is the barracuda.
-Ciguaterra, or cold chain broken?
The symptoms described by the witnesses perfectly match those of the ciguaterra. They are almost always similar and depends on the severity of the poisoning: digestive, reached with vomiting and diarrhea, associated cardiovascular impairment, a slowing of the pulse, a drop of tension and possible coma. Note also a neurological impairment characterized by tingling at the level of the lips, the language and the ends, an inversion of the sensation of hot and cold, muscle pain and joint major and persistent pruritus associated with a large fatigue.
Some sources also cite eye disorders and hair fall.
ATTENTION TO THE REFREEZING
However, these symptoms, or at least many of them, can be caused by another type of food poisoning, linked to the breakdown of the cold chain. A fish frozen, then thawed and refrozen, thus becomes a reservoir of extremely active toxins: salmonella, staphylococcus aureus, listeria monocytogenes... The latter causing listeriosis, serious illness, especially for impaired people.
In this case, doubts remain and not will be lifted only after the offending fish analysis. It is for this purpose that the remains of the Red Snapper were collected by the health authorities. Note, in this regard, that a single species of snapper - black ear - is deemed to be causing the ciguaterra.
-SALES: 33
Since 2007, 17 households of ciguaterra involving 33 patients were officially declared and confirmed in Guadeloupe. In 10 of these homes, was fishing enthusiasts who consumed their family fishing, mainly of Barracuda, yellow jack, Green moray eels, teeth of dog snapper. 7 Other homes have their origin on the stalls of fishermen, unscrupulous, hesitant step to offer the sale of fish whose marketing is prohibited. Further noted that in March, mission inter-ser vice of the safety of foods of Guadeloupe was a resurgence of ciguaterra State.
-Other people intoxicated
Some of the members of the family who had ordered the fish dish from Raphaëlla Lockel fell ill and developed the same symptoms she. Marcellus was the least affected. "I have fatigue so far, but other - my wife, my sister and my brother-in-law - had vomiting, diarrhea and strong itching." They went to the doctor and so far, it continues. My wife has severe headaches. My sister 79 years of age had to travel by wheelchair. I called it in Paris yesterday (Wednesday). It is not good at all. »
Symptoms appeared on the night following the meal.
And they speeded up the next day. For Marcellus, step of ambiguity. "It comes with the meal and fish." He also has been contacted by the regional health agency (ARS). "They told us to not eat fish or oilseed...". "If he does not wish to testify on his own behalf, he encourages people" to be careful"if they eat fish.
