Does a potato threat your life? A Case Study

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 3, 123 - 124, 23.12.2019

Serkan Doğan , Bensu Bulut , Ramiz Yazıcı , Canan Akman , Zeynep Saral Öztürk Ekim Sağlam Gürmen Tarık Ocak , Başar Cander

Abstract

The
mistakes on consuming the foods that are stored in improper conditions or that
are kept longer than what it is supposed to be can cause some of the clinical
symptoms from basic to life threatening ones. 
We present a case study of a 28 years old patient that came to our
clinic with hemodynamic disturbance after eating green potatoes where he/she
kept them in a storage to consume them in the winter season. Our discussion
based on the fact that the formation of the Solanine toxin which is likely seen
on the foods whose natural form changed can cause poisoning.

 

Keywords

Potatoes, Solanine, Poisoning

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