Why is the horseshoe crab a protected animal in our country, so you can eat it casually in Thailand?

The horseshoe crab is also called "the beast that sits at the bottom of the prison", why is it a protected animal in our country, but it can be eaten casually in Thailand? The horseshoe crab is a crustacean that looks like a crab.

For this reason, it is also known as horseshoe crab.

Friends who grew up by the sea should be no stranger to him, every year from April to August, it is the breeding season, as long as you go to the beach in the evening, you can see a large number of people gathering together to dig pits and lay eggs. Visitors who are unfamiliar with it may be taken aback by the fact that they resemble alien creatures, carrying a backyard shell or a slender rat tail, and crawling so fast with six pairs of abdominal limbs that they may be gone in the blink of an eye. I have to say, don't look at the strange appearance of the back, in fact, human beings are the oldest creatures on the earth, and the animals of the same period as the horseshoe crab have either changed their appearances, or they have disappeared, and only it has survived until now.

Therefore, horseshoe crabs are also called living fossils of the earth by scientists.

It is understood that the blood of the horseshoe crab is blue, and scientists have extracted a substance from his blood, which acts like a detective to quickly detect whether human tissues contain bacteria, and even detect whether drugs and foods are infected with toxins. Later, scientists.

The substance was made into a detection solution and named it LAL reagent.

It has to be said that this invention is of great help to human scientific research, but it is a catastrophe for the horseshoe crab family. After people frantically hunted wild horses, then they sent them to the laboratory to draw blood, and when people came to their senses, they found that the number of horseshoe crabs was off a cliff**, and a bunch of them could be seen on the beach in the past, but now there are two or three of them. That's when everyone realized that horseshoe crabs seemed to have become endangered.

As a result, people began to take remedial measures to save their family members as much as possible. Nowadays, China has listed the Chinese queen as a national second-class protected animal.

After the original tail and after the south, it is listed as a provincial key protected animal. It can be seen that China has made great efforts to protect the latter.

But it is not illegal to eat it in Thailand, and the locals often grill and fry it and eat it together, which makes people wonder, can you really eat it later? Why not protect the horseshoe crabs? First of all, I have to remind you why horseshoe crabs survive for so long?

First, its ability to reproduce is not bad, and second, its meat is terrible and poisonous. The meat of horseshoe crab contains a non-specific protein allergy, and people are prone to allergies, poisoning, and shock symptoms after eating. People with poor physique can be life-threatening after eating thick meat.

Therefore, when traveling to Thailand, try not to be curious, order a roadside to eat, in case something happens, the consequences are unimaginable. Thai people think that horseshoe crab is also a kind of seafood, so the locals often grill it, stir its meat and eggs together to eat, it is said that the taste is very similar to crab roe, but the thick meat has a strong fishy smell, and people who do not eat it often generally cannot accept it. However, the locals are used to eating, so they eat from time to time.

Because the regulations are different. Moreover, it is more common locally, and the climatic conditions in our country are not very suitable for its growth, so it is relatively rare.

The main reason is that the blood of this animal is very precious, and our country uses the blood of this animal to study a lot of very precious scientific and technological development and medical technology, which will also bring more positive help to the subsequent development of our country.

Because people's consciousness is different, we know how to protect animals and protect the ecological environment.

The Chinese horseshoe crab has high medicinal value, and its whole body is a treasure, and its meat, shell, and tail can all be used in medicine. The blood of horseshoe crabs is blue because it contains copper ions. The "LAL reagent" extracted from this blue blood can accurately and quickly detect whether the internal tissues of the human body are infected by bacteria; It is also widely used in the pharmaceutical and food industries to monitor toxin contamination.

Its shell can be refined into medicine that can treat diseases such as hyperthyroidism.

Adult horseshoe crabs are non-toxic and edible. However, juvenile horseshoe crabs (weighing about 250 grams) can be poisoned whether they are cooked or roasted; Severe poisoning can lead to death. The nature of the toxin in juvenile horseshoe crabs is unknown, and symptoms of juvenile horseshoe crab poisoning appear 1 to 3 hours after ingestion, or 10 hours later.

It is manifested as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, numbness of the mouth, lips, pharynx and limbs, dizziness, and in severe cases, ataxia, staggering gait, quadriplegia, slurred speech with nasal voice, irritability, delirium, dyspnea and other manifestations, and occasionally cerebral edema, coma, bradycardia, miosis and other symptoms.

**Juvenile horseshoe crab poisoning should be immediately vomited and gastric lavage with a solution of 1 2000 potassium permanganate or a medicinal charcoal suspension. Patients with mild symptoms can take syrup or licorice syrup by mouth. In severe cases, 10% glucose solution is added intravenously to a large dose of vitamin C (10-20 grams of vitamin C can be used daily), and hydrocortisone or dexamethasone is added if necessary.

Other symptoms may be symptomatic accordingly**.

Therefore, in areas where horseshoe crabs are produced, do not eat young horseshoe crabs; If it has been eaten by mistake, it is necessary to immediately probe the throat to induce vomiting and send it to the hospital for treatment.

Horseshoe crabs can be eaten, and they are eaten in some countries in the world, including some parts of the country, and the eating methods are also different, including roasted and soup. However, according to the research of the medical community around the world, the consumption of horseshoe crab is extremely harmful to health and life safety.

1 Eating horseshoe crab can cause allergic rash, redness, swelling and itching, and in severe cases, it can lead to anaphylactic shock or fatal toxic reactions, and the mortality rate of poisoning is high.

2 The meat of horseshoe crab contains a large amount of endocyclic amide purine chemicals, which are an important cause of the occurrence and development of gout diseases.

3 The main component of horseshoe crab plasma is hemocyanin, which contains the heavy metal organocopper per 1ml of hemocyanin. According to medical research, this heavy metal (Cu2+) enters the human body and is mainly accumulated in the liver and kidneys with blood circulation, which can accelerate the occurrence and development of hepatocyte necrosis or liver cirrhosis and cause complications such as renal failure and ammonia poisoning for patients with liver and kidney insufficiency.