Chinese women eat chilled watermelon and pass out. Do not send ICU. Doctors point out that the bacteria, dubbed “fridge killer,” survived at minus 20 degrees Celsius for up to a year.
The ETday website reported that Sen (nominated), a woman in her 60s from China, has eaten cold watermelon that has been stored for several days, causing high fever and worsening unconsciousness. The family had to rush her to the hospital and go to ICU. Doctors have detected listeria bacteria entering Mrs. Son’s brain, causing a brain abscess. It is understood that her severe symptoms. It was caused by eating watermelon that was saved several days ago.
According to Chinese media reports, Mrs. Son had a medical condition such as diabetes. Although her body was fine, she had an unknown high fever. Her body temperature was over 40 degrees Celsius and dizziness. She was initially thought to be just a common cold. But when it got worse, her family took her to a nearby hospital, but with severe symptoms. Therefore, he had to move to Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital for treatment.
When the family took Mrs. Son to the hospital, she was suffering from high fever, abnormal eye movements, paralyzed face, and unconsciousness.
The hospital’s physician, Dr. Cai Xiaofeng, analyzed that after the watermelon entered the stomach, listeria passed through the patient’s gastrointestinal mucous membrane into the lymph nodes and spread into the central nervous system through the bloodstream.
“Normally, central nervous system listeria infection shows symptoms of meningitis, but cases of cerebral abscess are rarely seen.”
In general, a refrigerated or frozen environment is not suitable for bacterial growth, but cold-loving bacteria such as listeria, dubbed “fridge killers,” can survive in both oxygen-free and oxygen-free conditions and take up to 5 minutes to sterilize at a high temperature of 70 degrees Celsius and can still live at a temperature as low as -20. Centigrade for up to a year.
For household refrigerator refrigeration temperatures are usually between 3 and 10 degrees Celsius and freezing temperatures are between -4 and -24 degrees Celsius, so listeria usually hides in refrigerator food and is often difficult to detect.
According to the data, listeria is often transmitted through foods such as meat, eggs, poultry, seafood, dairy products, and vegetables. Symptoms appear within 3 to 7 days of infection. Healthy adults may have mild flu-like symptoms, but in high-risk people, severe fevers and nausea and diarrhea. Infections in the bloodstream, meningitis, or a brain abscess.
