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What are the two toxins of this potentially coma inducing fruit?

April 26, 2017coma fruit INDUCING potentially toxins

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What are the two toxins of this potentially coma inducing fruit?

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The ingestion of unripe ACKEE FRUIT for the purpose of medicinal or nutritional purposes can give rise to acute poisoning and neurotoxic symptoms like “Jamaican vomiting sickness” or toxic hypoglycemic syndrome (THS) (6). Adverse effects include hypotonia, vomiting, convulsions, coma and death.