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What is litchi disease? What are the symptoms of litchi disease?

The symptoms of litchi disease are mainly hypoglycemia. Generally, the symptoms of dizziness, fatigue and palpitation occur after eating too much litchi or in the morning of the next day, which will lead to coma and blood pressure drop. Litchi is the most seasonal fruit in this season, but if you eat a lot of delicious litchi, it is easy to get litchi disease. Do you know what is litchi disease?

What is litchi disease

Litchi disease refers to some people's dizziness, sweating, paleness, fatigue, panic, thirst, hunger and other symptoms after eating a large amount of fresh litchi. Severe cases may include cold limbs, pulse count, blood pressure drop, and even convulsions and sudden coma and other symptoms. This is due to the hypoglycemic reaction caused by excessive insulin secretion after eating a lot of fresh litchi. The light one can resume normal by oral administration of sugar water; the heavy one should be sent to the hospital for rescue.

The essence of litchi disease is a kind of 'hypoglycemia'. Litchi contains a lot of fructose. Fructose is absorbed into the blood quickly through the capillary of gastrointestinal mucosa. It must be transformed into glucose by invertase in the liver before it can be directly used by human body.

If you eat too much litchi, there will be too much fructose into the human blood, and the 'modified' fructose invertase will be in short supply. In this case, a large amount of fructose is full of blood vessels, but it can not be converted into glucose which can be used by the human body. At the same time, eating too much litchi affects appetite, so that the human body can not get the necessary nutrition, resulting in the lack of glucose in the human blood, which will lead to litchi disease.

Symptoms of litchi disease

The main symptoms were hypoglycemia, more than the sudden onset of disease in the morning after eating litchi, dizziness, sweating, pale face, fatigue, lethargy, palpitation, cold limbs, and some children had hunger, thirst, limb pain and diarrhea. The severe cases were coma, convulsion, decrease of blood pressure, exhaustion of breath, and death due to untimely rescue. Laboratory tests showed hypoglycemia.

Treatment of litchi disease

It is too late to induce vomiting and wash Xiao after the onset of the disease. Light patients can be relieved by oral administration of sugar water or glucose water. Severe patients should be given 25% - 50% glucose solution LG / kg intravenously immediately and given symptomatic treatment.

The prevention of litchi disease in the litchi harvest season do not eat a large number of consecutive, or have been sick less, the best not to eat, can prevent the disease. No more than five children at a time. Don't eat litchi on an empty stomach. It's best to eat it half an hour after dinner. It can be prevented by drinking sugar water while eating litchi.