It is undeniable that many areas have different food cultures. But wouldn’t it be better if we chose to eat safely? Revealing the dangers of eating raw meat that are greater than the dangers of parasites.
Nowadays, raw food menus with strong flavors are popular and easy to find, whether it’s Somtam with fresh shrimp, Soy Chu, Pickled crab, Pickled eggs, or even raw freshwater fish that are at high risk of parasites. There are still people who are unaware of the dangers and often cook raw food to eat. This doesn’t include undercooked food that is just as dangerous because some parasites and germs need to be destroyed with a fairly high amount of heat.
Dangers of eating raw food
- In the early stages of liver fluke disease , or when the liver is not yet severely damaged, it can be cured. However, when the liver is severely damaged, it is usually a severe disease, affecting the overall health of the patient. It is also a major risk factor for developing liver cancer, which occurs in the bile ducts in the liver, which is a severe form of cancer and causes high mortality.
Foods at risk of liver fluke infection include freshwater fish such as silver barb, stingray, silver barb, silver barb, whitefish, whitefish, snakehead fish, etc.
- Beef tapeworm and pork tapeworm live in the human body by attaching their heads to the intestinal wall. They are 2-4 meters long and shed segments into the feces. Inside the segments are full of tapeworm eggs. ทางเข้า UFABET สำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ สมัครวันนี้ รับโบนัสฟรี When the segments break, the eggs are scattered into the feces. If the pork tapeworm/beef tapeworm sheds the cooked segments in the intestines back into the stomach.
Foods at risk for tapeworm infection : Raw pork/raw beef
- Rat lungworm ( Angiostrongylus cantonensis) normally lives in the arteries of rat lungs. The female worm lays eggs in the arteries and hatches into larvae. The larvae then burrow through the lungs to the intestines and are mixed with rat feces. This stage of the larvae is eaten or burrows into freshwater snails, such as apple snails, snails, shrimp, crabs, frogs, and monitor lizards, and then develops into contagious larvae. When people eat animals with contagious larvae without cooking them properly, the larvae travel to the brain, causing meningitis. Symptoms of infection include the larvae burrowing into the nervous system, such as the brain and spinal cord, causing headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, stiff neck, convulsions, weakness, and even death. If the worm burrows into the eyes, it can cause eye inflammation, blurred vision, and even blindness.
- Deafness caused by Streptococcus suis bacteria. This bacteria is found in the respiratory tract of pigs and in the blood of sick pigs. This disease is transmitted in two ways: by contact with infected pigs, including pork, organs and blood of infected pigs, and by contact with humans through wounds, scratches on the body or through the mucous membranes of the eyes. It is also caused by consuming raw or undercooked pork and blood that contain the bacteria. Patients will develop symptoms 3-5 days after eating the bacteria, which will cause inflammation of the meninges and endocardium, which may cause inflammation and degeneration of the auditory nerves in both ears, leading to permanent deafness. Death from blood infections may occur.
Foods that are at risk of causing deafness : Raw or undercooked pork
How to prevent parasites and diseases
- Avoid consuming raw or undercooked pork. Pigs are sick or have died from disease.
- Do not eat raw food. It should be cooked at a temperature of at least 70 degrees Celsius for at least 10 minutes.
- If the cook has a skin wound, the wound must be covered and gloves must be worn while cooking.
- Separate the chopsticks or raw meat containers and pick up food.
- Choose to buy meat from a market or a certified slaughterhouse. Do not buy pork with a strong smell, dark color, or shrunken meat.