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What is broad bean disease? What are the symptoms of broad bean disease

Every year in April and may, after the beginning of summer, there are a large number of fresh broad beans on the market in the southern region, one by one green, fresh and invincible broad beans, broad beans are a kind of food with high nutritional value, but some people have caused broad bean disease because of eating broad beans. Let's get to know!

But there is a group of people who can not enjoy faba bean food. When they eat faba bean (including faba bean products), or even just inhale faba bean pollen, they will cause a series of symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, anemia, soy sauce color urine and so on.

The disease of this kind of people is commonly known as' broad bean disease '. Its official name is red blood cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency. It is a genetic disease caused by congenital deficiency of G-6-PD in red blood cells.

The disease of broad bean is acute, serious and life-threatening

In early summer every year, there is a high incidence of faba bean disease. The disease is often acute. Most of the patients have hemolysis within 1-2 days after eating fresh faba bean. The shortest one is only 2 hours, and the longest one is 9 days apart.

If the disease is caused by inhaling broad bean pollen, the symptoms can appear within a few minutes.

The severity of broad bean disease varies from person to person. The common symptoms are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, anemia and soy sauce colored urine.

Among them, the obvious feature of the disease is that the urine is oily. This is because the patients will cause red blood cell rupture after eating broad beans, and the hemoglobin will be discharged through the urine, leading to severe anemia.

Therefore, once the disease should be timely medical treatment, if not timely treatment, can cause coma, convulsions and acute renal failure, the child even life-threatening, must not be careless.

In addition, faba bean disease does not have much to do with the amount of faba beans you eat. It is possible that you will be hit if you eat a few of them. It is also possible that if you eat them last year, they will get sick this year.

Broad bean disease mostly occurs in children under 6 years old

According to statistics, broad bean disease is widely distributed, with about 400 million patients in the world. China has the rule of "high in the South and low in the north". Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan and Hunan are the high incidence areas.

The distribution of faba bean disease in the world is close to that of thalassemia.

Broad bean disease is a common congenital genetic disease. Because the genes are located on the X chromosome, the majority of the people with broad bean disease are men. The incidence rate of China's males is between 2% and 5%, while women may carry genes all their lives, but they will not be infected.

Meanwhile, the incidence rate of broad bean disease in children is significantly higher than that in adults, and children under 5 years old account for the majority. If the child is the first time to eat broad beans, we must eat less. After eating, the skin turns yellow, the urine color deepens, and the spirit is poor, we must take the child to the hospital in time.

Can broad bean disease be cured? What are the taboos?

Broad bean disease is a kind of genetic disease, there is no cure measures at present, in daily life can only pay attention to prevention.

Patients with faba bean disease not only should not eat faba bean and faba bean products, but also should stay away from the flowers of faba bean. At the same time, they should also avoid taking oxidation drugs.

For children under 3 years old, the first time to eat fresh broad beans must be careful, parents should pay attention to observe the reaction of children after eating, if there is discomfort, send to the hospital as soon as possible.

Do you feel nervous after watching so much? Don't be afraid, broad bean disease can be determined in the form of early screening, and it is a genetic disease. If you don't have any patients with broad bean disease in your family, you don't have to worry about it and enjoy all kinds of broad bean food.