Lady dies, husband in coma after consuming this ‘toxic’ fish in Malaysia | World News

An 83-year-old lady in Malaysia died, and her husband is battling for his life within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after they ate a puffer fish final week, with out understanding it contained lethal toxins, New York Publish reported citing native media.

The couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, mentioned her father bought the puffer fish – a delicacy identified to include extraordinarily potent poisons – from an area store on March 25. “My mother and father have been shopping for fish from the identical fishmonger for a few years, so my father didn’t assume twice about it,” Lee mentioned.

“He wouldn’t have knowingly purchased one thing so lethal to eat and put their lives in peril,” she added.

As quickly because the duo ate the fish for lunch, the girl recognized as Lim Siew Guan, started to shiver and expertise respiration difficulties. About an hour later, her husband additionally confirmed the identical signs.

The couple’s son then rushed them to the hospital, and had been midway via the journey when their mom was pronounced useless. “The ’reason behind dying’ is given as ‘meals poisoning with neurological manifestation leading to respiratory failure with cardiac dysrhythmia presumably as a result of ciguatera toxin or tetrodotoxin ingestion,’ from the puffer fish,” Johor’s well being and unity committee chairman, Ling Tian Quickly mentioned.

Talking to the media outlet, the couple’s daughter mentioned her father is in a coma within the intensive care unit. “I’m ready for the worst as a result of the physician advised us that even when he is ready to pull via the ordeal, he may not be the identical any extra, as a result of his previous age,” she added.

In response to the Meals and Drug Administration, the favored Japanese dish puffer fish could include the lethal toxins tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin, which can’t be eliminated via cooking or freezing. The fish is usually solely served by extremely expert cooks who’ve acquired coaching in methods to destroy these toxins.