Deadly star fruit in China
What! How could this be?
Star Online reported that a 66-year-old Malaysian is among more than a dozen people who are in a coma after eating star fruits in Shenzhen province in China.
Worse, 2 others have died at the same hospital after eating the fruit.
The unfortunate person who’s now in a coma is Tang Gon Seang, a retired assistant headmaster of SRJK (C) Kwang Hwa in Butterworth.
He and his wife went to China to visit their engineer son in Shenzhen two months ago. Last month he ate the fruit and has remained in a coma since.
Though around a dozen people have been hospitalized after falling into a coma from eating the star fruits, the Shenzhen General Hospital hasn’t disclosed why the victims had suffered such a drastic effect from eating the fruit.
Star fruit is also known as carambola, or belimbing in Bahasa. In Penang Hokkien it's called yeo thoe (the yeo should be pronounced with a slight nasal sound).
I personally can’t believe it’s the fruits per se as I have been eating star fruits all my life – fresh (green and ripe), with rojak, pickled, dried and sugared, with salt, you name it and I have eaten the belimbing in all forms and in many countries.
... in our homeland, Thailand (called ma fueang), Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam (khe), India, Australia (the price here frightens the sh*t out of me but fortunately for cheap skate me, I had mine free at a party) and French New Caledonia (I know a French family who has two glorious trees in their garden and didn't know the delights of carambolier).
Look, I haven’t suffered any ill effects whatsoever, except once as a kid when I fell off a star fruit tree trying to get away from the owner who came out with a broom. She was so sympathetic with my mishaps that she even patched me up instead of whacking me.
I have a feeling it could be some nasty pesticide that was sprayed on the fruits (or their trees), which had been ingested by poor Tang.
But then I just found out that like grapefruits, carambola can significantly increase the effective dosage of certain medications within the body. Apparently in some cases, the interactions of star fruit or star fruit juice with, for example, atorvastatin can be fatal. But a dozen people ...?
Wow, gasp, gawd, omigosh, gulp!
Star Online reported that a 66-year-old Malaysian is among more than a dozen people who are in a coma after eating star fruits in Shenzhen province in China.
Worse, 2 others have died at the same hospital after eating the fruit.
The unfortunate person who’s now in a coma is Tang Gon Seang, a retired assistant headmaster of SRJK (C) Kwang Hwa in Butterworth.
He and his wife went to China to visit their engineer son in Shenzhen two months ago. Last month he ate the fruit and has remained in a coma since.
Though around a dozen people have been hospitalized after falling into a coma from eating the star fruits, the Shenzhen General Hospital hasn’t disclosed why the victims had suffered such a drastic effect from eating the fruit.
Star fruit is also known as carambola, or belimbing in Bahasa. In Penang Hokkien it's called yeo thoe (the yeo should be pronounced with a slight nasal sound).
I personally can’t believe it’s the fruits per se as I have been eating star fruits all my life – fresh (green and ripe), with rojak, pickled, dried and sugared, with salt, you name it and I have eaten the belimbing in all forms and in many countries.
... in our homeland, Thailand (called ma fueang), Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam (khe), India, Australia (the price here frightens the sh*t out of me but fortunately for cheap skate me, I had mine free at a party) and French New Caledonia (I know a French family who has two glorious trees in their garden and didn't know the delights of carambolier).
Look, I haven’t suffered any ill effects whatsoever, except once as a kid when I fell off a star fruit tree trying to get away from the owner who came out with a broom. She was so sympathetic with my mishaps that she even patched me up instead of whacking me.
I have a feeling it could be some nasty pesticide that was sprayed on the fruits (or their trees), which had been ingested by poor Tang.
But then I just found out that like grapefruits, carambola can significantly increase the effective dosage of certain medications within the body. Apparently in some cases, the interactions of star fruit or star fruit juice with, for example, atorvastatin can be fatal. But a dozen people ...?
Wow, gasp, gawd, omigosh, gulp!
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