Sponsors do not influence content. People are poisoned through deliberate consumption. Contaminated shellfish do not have an abnormal taste, smell, or color, and the toxin is not destroyed by heating or cooking. Muscle paralysis may occur. The victim may develop headache, low back pain, vertigo, loss of balance, drooling, blurred vision, temporary blindness, elevated heart rate, low blood pressure, and altered temperature perception.
Large ingestions can result in coma and respiratory failure.
Patient may become paralyzed. Artificial respiration may keep the patient alive until the victim reaches a hospital. In case of vomiting, turn the patient on his or her side to avoid aspiration of stomach contents. Medicine is a constantly changing science and not all therapies are clearly established. New research changes drug and treatment therapies daily.