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Is there any treatment for Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
or any types of fish poisoning?

Please reply!! Thank you !

2007-09-17 12:18:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diseases & Conditions Infectious Diseases

2 answers

There is no real treatment nor test for ciguatera fish poisoning. Generally, it is diagnosed based on the patient's symptoms plus report of recent consumption of certain kinds of fish (commonly snapper, skipjack and barracuda -- who eats barracuda?!?). To treat patients with ciguatera, you usually treat their symptoms as they show up. So if they have a drop in blood pressure, you give them drugs to bring it back up. If they have diarrhea, you can give them Lomotil. If they have neuro symptoms, give them the appropriate meds for that.

Ciguatera is RARE, but it does subside in a few days. Only a few cases have resulted in long-term illness.

Ciguatera is caused by dinoflagellate (algæ) blooms. Fish consume the algæ or it gets into their bodies, and they store up the toxins in the algæ. When you eat the fish, you eat the toxins in the fish, too. The toxins make you sick.

2007-09-17 12:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Gumdrop Girl 7 · 0 0

First-- 50% is a tremendous water difference, and if it is performed after an extended interval of no water alterations it could actually rationale a pH swing that may surprise the fish. The most secure (smartest) method to difference water is to do a small (20%) a few times every week. Just hanging your hand within the water isn't correct for temperature judgment. Since you moved probably the most rocky substrate round I'll expect that you simply had been doing a correct activity of "gravel vacuuming". If the chlorine used to be robust adequate to kill fish it used to be obviously robust adequate to kill all the micro organism so you're watching at a complete redeaux of the cycle. Also seem up the brand new water therapy substance referred to as "chloramine", it is so much more difficult to take away that well historic normal chlorine. One final phrase of recommendation,pretreat the makeup water that means you do not disclose the fish or micro organism to any chlorine.

2016-09-05 17:27:35 · answer #2 · answered by rothmiller 3 · 0 0

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