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Neurotoxic marine poisoning
TL;DR: Because there are no antidotes, supportive care, including mechanical ventilation in patients with severe paralysis, is the mainstay of treatment.
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Tetrodotoxin, an Extremely Potent Marine Neurotoxin: Distribution, Toxicity, Origin and Therapeutical Uses.
TL;DR: This neurotoxin has spread to the Pacific and Mediterranean, due to the increase of temperature waters worldwide, and could be used in the medical field as an analgesic to treat some cancer pains.
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Puffer poisoning: epidemiology and treatment
Tamao Noguchi,Joanne S. M. Ebesu +1 more
TL;DR: Tetrodotoxin (TTX) intoxication resulting from the ingestion of toxic puffer is relatively common in a number of Asian countries and the onset of symptoms is rapid.
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Paralytic complications of puffer fish (tetrodotoxin) poisoning.
TL;DR: Since there is no specific treatment, people should be made aware of the potential risk of eating puffer fish, about the warning symptoms and signs of pufferFish poisoning, and when to seek medical help.
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Seafood intoxication by tetrodotoxin: first case in Europe.
J.F. Fernández-Ortega,José M. Morales-de los Santos,M.E. Herrera-Gutiérrez,Victoria Fernández-Sánchez,Paula Rodríguez Loureo,Amparo Alfonso Rancaño,A. Téllez-Andrade +6 more
TL;DR: This first European case of tetrodotoxin intoxication in a patient who ingested part of a trumpet shellfish from the Atlantic Ocean in Southern Europe is presented, alerting scientists to the possibility of a very harmful biotoxin in European coastal waters.