If You Are In These Conditions, Must Avoid Shrimp!

 

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1. People who are allergic to seafood

In general, people who have seafood allergies should avoid seafood, such as squid and so on. However, there are some people who are allergic to seafood but they don't avoid it because they really love seafood, some even take medicine before or after eating seafood to avoid allergies. Because it is very difficult for us if we have to avoid the food we like, but it would be nice for those of you who suffer from seafood allergies to avoid seafood, because it can harm your health. If you want to continue to consume seafood even though you are allergic, you should consume it for a long period of time. The following are symptoms or characteristics of a seafood allergy:

General features:

    • The skin will feel itchy and dry

    • Stomach pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea

    • Shortness of breath, stuffy nose and wheezing

    • Swelling of the face, tongue, lips and throat

    • Dizziness, even fainting.

Characteristics of anaphylactic shock (serious and life-threatening features):

    • Headache

    • Drastic drop in blood pressure

    • Loss of consciousness

    • Difficulty breathing due to swollen throat

2. Cough Sufferers

For those of you who have a history of cough sufferers, apart from fried foods, nuts and so on, you should also avoid seafood. Because coughing can be an allergic reaction. So it's best for those of you with coughs to reduce or avoid seafood.

3. People who have red eyes

According to specialists, eating shrimp in conditions when the eyes are red can make your eyes worse. Besides shrimp, you are also thirsty to avoid other fishy foods.

4. Asthma sufferers

As stated in the first point (people who are allergic to sea food), there are characteristics of anaphylactic shock, one of which is difficulty breathing due to a swollen throat, meaning for those of you who suffer from asthma you should really stay away because this is very dangerous for your health.

Characteristics of asthmatics:

    • Chest pain or tightness

    • Breathing fast

    • Frequent coughing, and so on

5. Have hyperthyroidism

Hyperthyroidism is where the production of the hormone thyroxine is excessive or too much. Hyperthyroidism is also known as hyperthyroidism, the thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of the neck. In shrimp or other seafood, there is a lot of iodine that can worsen the thyroid.

Symptoms of hyperthyroidism:

    • Tremors in the hands

    • Nervous

    • Easily angry / emotional

    • Diarrhea

    • Hair loss

    • Blurred vision

    • His concentration is dropping

    • Heart beat

    • It's hard to sleep

    • Menstrual disorders

Physical signs of hyperthyroidism:

    • His blood pressure is increasing

    • The appearance of a skin rash

    • Eyeballs look very prominent

    • Enlargement of the thyroid gland

    • Red palms

Those are some conditions that you should avoid consuming shrimp, because shrimp is one of the seafood that generally causes allergies.

Do you have any of the above conditions? Or even you feel one of the symptoms above?. It's better if it's like that you have to check it further to make sure whether you have suffering like the above or not.

I hope you are always in good health 😊 

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