Medical history and clinical presentation: A 66-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency department following bitter zucchini ingestion. Clinical symptoms were tachycardia, hypotension, somnolence, diarrhea, hematochezia as
BACKGROUND
Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) is an edible plant in the Cucurbitaceae family. When extremely bitter, ingestion of bottle gourd can cause rapid onset diarrhea, vomiting, gastrointestinal bleeding, and hypotension due to release of a substance named cucurbitacin.
OBJECTIVE
Our aim was
Reports from Australia of illness in consumers eating bitter squash prompted a 10-wk mouse-feeding study containing increased levels of the fruit of two cultivars of Cucurbita pepo , L., 'Blackjack' and 'Straightneck', and an accession of the bitter species, Cucurbita texana , Gray, was conducted.
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