Elucidating the Neurotoxicity of the Star Fruit

摘要

Patients suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) were intoxicated after ingestion of Averrhoa carambola (star fruit, SF). Additional reports of intoxications justified a human health warning because of a large number of renal patients on dialysis and patients not currently on dialysis were at risk worldwide. Briefly, the main symptoms of intoxication owing to SF are intractable hiccups, mental confusion, prolonged seizures (status epilepticus, SE), and death.