If you were thirsty and found a cold coconut in the refrigerator, would you not be able to wait to take it out, insert a straw into your mouth, and enjoy the coolness that fills your heart and spleen? still takes three steps back. carefully tastes whether it is spoiled?
Recently, a man in the UK became inexplicably dizzy for half a day after drinking a few mouthfuls of rancid coconut water. He fainted in the toilet and his girlfriend called 911. After some rescue efforts, the doctor told the man that his brain, liver and kidney had severely failed. After half a day, his vital signs disappeared and he was sent to a funeral home.
What makes the doctor puzzled is that no fungal infection material has ever been detected in the man's body.Why did the man die? What deadly substance is hidden in the rancid coconut juice?
Drinking rancid coconut juice actually caused brain failure?
Not long after 39-year-old Robert was sent to the emergency room, was pushed directly to the emergency room. No matter how her girlfriend Alice called Robert that morning, she couldn't hear any response. She thought Robert was concentrating on checking his phone as usual.
As a result, when Alice opened the bathroom door, saw Robert fainted on the ground, face pale, body still twitching from time to time. This scene frightened Alice, she quickly dialed 911 and sent Robert to the hospital.
No one knew that in the morning, after returning from fitness and sweating profusely, Robert opened the refrigerator, took out a piece of peeled coconut bought from the freezer section last month, drank a few gulps, the rancid green coconut milk filled his mouth directly, mixed with a strong sour smell. This made Robert cough violently, quickly spat out the coconut juice in his mouth, but still accidentally swallowed a few small mouthfuls.
Robert then rinsed his mouth vigorously with water, but kept feeling the sour smell of coconut milk clinging to the oral mucosa.
A few hours later, Robert began to sweat inexplicably all over his body, and the sour smell went straight to the top of his head. took a staggering step, and the objects in front of Robert began to "spinning". walked to the bathroom and directly buried his head in the sink, and violently vomited. When was about to open the door, Robert's vision went dark and he fell to the ground.
When the doctor shined bright light into his eyes, he found that his pupils still contracted. This shows that the body still has basic physiological functions. But blood tests showed that the concentration of hydrogen ions and in Robert's blood was severely imbalanced. This is an excessive acidic imbalance caused by cellular activity. The doctor judged that Robert might be suffering from severe meningitis. , which is a thin membrane surrounding the brain, breeds a large number of bacteria and fungi secrete and spread.
Due to the rancid coconut incident, Robert was the only one present during the whole process. Even his girlfriend did not know that Robert had drunk the rancid coconut juice. Why did Robert become ill? It became a mystery?
The doctor performed another MRI on Robert. The results showed that a large amount of fluid had poured into Robert's brain, and destroyed the parts of the brain nerves responsible for learning, memory and movement.
Robert's blood test also showed that he had severe hyperammonemia. The ammonia element of is an important component of the protein , and is also the product of the protein decomposing . The main component of ammonia is nitrogen, which is also an element required by all plants for growth.
Each chain of protein is called amino acid . The body relies on cutting off amino acids to digest protein and obtain important nutrients.
Muscles dissolve and flow into the blood
In biology , when coconuts and corns rot, will automatically secrete a substance called zymomycetic acid , this substance is produced by Burkholderia , and is accompanied by the reproduction of a large number of microorganisms , these microorganisms also contain mitochondrial toxins.
If you accidentally drink the mitochondrial toxins in rancid coconut water into your stomach, the toxins will immediately take effect and hinder the body's energy production. At this time, more and more ammonia will accumulate in the intestines, and the body does not have enough energy to digest excess ammonia. Ammonia water will flow to the brain along with blood circulation .
Sometimes bacteria will produce it when fermentation is incomplete. Once mitochondrial toxin appears, it will interfere with the normal metabolic activities of cells. will cause great damage to liver function in particular.
The brain itself is damaged, and liver failure exacerbates brain failure. In addition, mitochondrial toxins will also directly attack the brain, all organs and cells that require body energy to operate, will spin slower and slower, and eventually malfunction.
But doctors did not detect Burkholderia bacteria in Robert's blood. The doctor also took a small amount of Robert's cerebrospinal fluid for testing to find the original clues to the pathogen.
cerebrospinal fluid test results showed that Robert was not infected. Before the symptoms of were clearly analyzed, Robert's condition deteriorated seriously, and the doctor had to push him to the emergency room.
At this time, blood test showed that some of Robert's muscles also began to slowly dissolve, and flowed into the blood. Because the brain loses its energy source of weight, is unable to control muscle activity and contraction. In fact, the brain itself cannot protect itself. These melted muscles follow the blood throughout the body, attacks the kidneys, and breaks through the renal tubules .
Robert's condition seems to be getting worse and worse. Cerebral edema makes Robert suffer extremely painful life and death torture at this time.
Could it be that the rancid coconut was not the initiator of Robert's illness? may contain substances that cause mitochondrial toxins in addition to Burkholderia.
The deadly initiator: Arthrospora cane
At this moment, the doctor detected a special fungus in Robert's body - Arthrospora cane. This fungus can produce a substance called trinitropropionic acid. can also secrete mitochondrial toxins. The appearance of is very similar to the chemical element of that secretes ATP. At the same time, doctors also detected the same substance in rancid coconut milk.
When Arthrospora cane produces a large amount of mitochondrial toxins, also uses a "mask" on mitochondria , forcing the mitochondria to automatically give up using common chemical elements in the body to create energy, instead uses the harmful substance trinitropropionic acid, but trinitropropionic acid obviously cannot provide effective body energy.
Robert's body's organ functions have reached a dead end as the cell energy is exhausted.. Because when the doctor worked out a treatment strategy and prepared to show off his skills, Robert's completely closed hard skull could no longer withstand the large influx of ammonia, and even rushed into the seams of 's skull.
No medical treatment could relieve the swelling in Robert's brain. At this time, Robert's pupils had fallen into a deathly sluggish state, no longer had any conditioned reflex to strong light, and the brainstem 's response to external signal stimulation was becoming increasingly weak.
6 hours later, Robert lost the ability to breathe on his own, and his ECG showed a straight line. Doctor apologetically informed Alice of this tragic fact, and at the same time he felt deeply guilty for missing the best opportunity for rescue.
In fact, the direct cause of Robert's death was not the mold produced by the rotting fruit, but a special fungus - mitochondrial toxin: The pathogen of trinitropropionic acid toxin also comes from rotten coconuts.
In the end, the grieving Alice cremated Robert's body and threw it into the sea. She never drank coconut water again in her life.
Author: Yi Nian
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