Can you eat snails, and what are the dangers?

Fushou snails cannot be eaten. The snail is an intermediate host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Humans are mainly infected with raw or semi-raw intermediate hosts (e.g., Fushou snails) and secondary hosts, causing angiostrongyloidiasis.

Angiostrongyloidiasis is a larval migran disease that mainly invades the central nervous system of the human body, causing eosinophilic meningoencephalitis or meningitis. In June 2006, when a restaurant in Beijing was processing Fushou snails, they were not thoroughly heated, resulting in the failure to kill Angiostrongyloides cantonensis in the snail meat, which caused an outbreak of Angiostrongyloidiasis in Beijing.

Fushou snail, also known as large bottle snail, apple snail. Native to the Amazon River basin in South America, it was introduced to Taiwan, China in the 70s of the 20th century, and was successively introduced to Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and other Asian countries as a food in the 80s. It was introduced to Guangdong in 1981, and has been widely cultivated since 1984, and has rapidly spread to Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places.

Fushou snail has the characteristics of strong adaptability, strong reproductive ability, large food volume, and rapid growth.

Fushou snail belongs to aquatic animals, with a wide and mixed diet, mainly plants, among which rice is its main harmful crop. Fushou snail can eat 15 kinds of common crops such as callus white, lotus root, Cigu, etc., and also likes to eat cishi, water chestnut, water chestnut and other aquatic vegetables in the shady and humid habitat, so the Fushou snail is more harmful to aquatic plants. Fushou snail is one of the 100 malignant invasive alien species in the world, and it is also one of the first 16 "extremely harmful alien species" to invade China.

Not recommended. It is not recommended to consume Fushou snails:

1.Contains parasites and bacteria: Fushou snails contain many parasites and bacteria, which are difficult to thoroughly clean and kill.

2.Causes parasitic infections: Consumption of Fushou snails may lead to parasitic infections, such as angiostrongyloidiasis in Guangzhou, which has severe symptoms and endangers human health.

3.Snails are safer: If you want to eat snail meat, it is recommended to choose snails. However, it also needs to be carefully identified and heated at high temperatures for a long time to completely kill the pathogen.

Fushou snails can be eaten, and their meat is edible, but the taste is not good, and they are not loved by people. In addition, it is also the feed for some valuable aquatic animals. Fushou snails are large, have a wide range of eating habits, strong adaptability, fast growth and reproduction, and high yield, and are cultivated all over China.

Eating insufficiently heated snails may cause infection of parasites such as Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the human body.

After eating raw or incompletely heated Fushou snails, it can be infected, which can cause headaches, slow fever, neck stiffness and other symptoms, and in severe cases, it can cause dementia and even die of death. Therefore, when eating Fushou snails, you must pay attention to thorough heating. Beijing and Shanghai have banned the sale of snails, and Xi'an has banned restaurants from cooking half-lived snails, but note that after a few years, the ban was relaxed in these areas.

Hello dear, it's a pleasure to serve you! Fushou snails can't be eaten in the end. 1. Fushou snail is a relatively common aquatic product, generally can not be eaten, because Fushou snail is an intermediate host of zoonotic parasitic disease, there are many parasites in its body, each Fushou snail can contain 3000 6000 argiostrongyloides in Guangzhou, if you eat raw snail meat or eat undercooked snail meat, it is easy to cause Guangzhou strongyloidiasis, and even if it is cooked and cooked, it can not guarantee that the parasite is completely killed, so it is generally not recommended to eat Fushou snail, because the appearance of Fushou snail and field snail is similar, so many people will eat it by mistake, and you should pay attention to distinguish it before eating.

2. If you have symptoms such as continuous headache and body aches after eating Fushou snails, or symptoms of Guangzhou strongyloidiasis such as nausea, vomiting, and mental abnormalities, you should immediately go to the infection department, neurology department and other departments of a regular hospital for treatment, and you can use albendazole tablets and albendazole capsules to relieve the symptoms under the guidance of a doctor.