Recently, the dispatch and command center of the Beijing Emergency Center received a call for help. While enjoying having crabs at home, a young woman felt unwell but did not pay much attention. However, she had sore face and rash on both arms while eating the 6th crab, and the rash gradually increased, and the discomfort became significantly worse. The patient immediately called 120 for an ambulance and claiming that he had other allergic symptoms such as difficult breathing. The dispatcher immediately sent the nearest ambulance to the patient's home. When the ambulance arrived, the patient’s allergic reaction is getting severe, and the eyes were so swollen that could not be opened. The doctors immediately checked the patient's physical signs and sent her to the hospital in time.

The 120 dispatch command center warmly reminds the general public the following tips. Although crabs are delicious, there are many taboos for eating them. Patients with hepatitis and  cardiovascular diseases should not eat crabs. Crabs contain high cholesterol, and patients with coronary heart disease and hyperlipidemia are originally high-risk groups of cardiovascular diseases such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and stroke. People with colds and fever should not eat crabs. Pregnant women should eat less or not crabs. Crabs are a type of food that is easy to cause allergies. Pregnant women may induce allergies after eating them. If the crabs are not cooked thoroughly, the parasites in the crabs will easily be absorbed by the baby. People with allergies should avoid eating crabs. The elderly, people with spleen and stomach deficiency, gout, kidney insufficiency or hypertension should not eat crabs. People with biliary diseases such as cholecystitis and cholelithiasis should avoid eating crabs. The formation of cholecystitis and gallstones is related to excess cholesterol and metabolic disorders, and eating crabs can easily make the disease recur or worsen.

Here are some tips from 120. Allergies to seafood such as crabs will cause allergic reactions of varying degrees, ranging from skin rashes to airway spasm and laryngeal edema. If not treated in time, it may even be life-threatening. At the same time, people with allergic constitution or prone to allergic reactions should always prepare anti-allergic drugs such as loratadine, so that they can take medicines in time to relieve symptoms in case of emergencies and gain valuable time for the next medical treatment.