
Gia Lai: Three children injured or killed after attempting to eat toad meat.
The children prepared and ate toad meat at home and subsequently suffered food poisoning, resulting in one death and two requiring emergency hospitalization.

The children prepared and ate toad meat at home and subsequently suffered food poisoning, resulting in one death and two requiring emergency hospitalization.

After drinking the soft drink sold at the school gate, 30 students all experienced symptoms such as headaches, stomachaches, nausea, and diarrhea, with 7 of them showing severe symptoms.

According to folk wisdom, children who are picky eaters and underweight can be fed toad meat, but is the meat of this animal really good and safe for young children?

Whether malnourished children should eat toad meat is a question many parents with young children have.

Three men in Hoa Binh province developed symptoms such as headache, numbness, fatigue, muscle weakness, painful urination, and irregular heartbeat, and had to be hospitalized after eating toad meat.

After catching a toad, 11-year-old twin sisters in Hoa Binh province took it home and prepared and cooked it themselves, resulting in food poisoning. The older sister did not survive, while the younger sister is currently receiving treatment.

Toad meat is very nutritious, but toxins in certain parts of their bodies, such as toad venom, liver, and eggs, can cause acute poisoning with a very high mortality rate.

A woman in Lao Cai died from poisoning after preparing and consuming toad meat, including toad liver and eggs, as a cure for cancer.

According to research in traditional Chinese medicine, toad venom is classified as a Class A poison – the highest level of toxicity. However, during the slaughtering process, after cutting, the toad venom flows out and mixes with the toad meat.

According to doctors, toad meat is a nutritious food that is beneficial to human health, but it also poses a potential threat to human life.

Seeing that her parents were not home, H'Chua Bya butchered a toad and cooked it for her three sisters to eat. As a result, two of the younger children died, while H'Chua Bya had to be rushed to the hospital.