How badly a person is affected by aflatoxin mycotoxins depends on things like the person’s age, gender, level of exposure, duration of exposure, health, strength of their immune system, diet and environmental factors.
There are two main ways people are usually exposed to aflatoxins. The first is when someone takes in a high amount of aflatoxins in a very short time.
What is aflatoxin and what are its symptoms?
This can cause
Liver damage
Liver cancer
Mental impairment
Abdominal Pain
Vomiting
Convulsions
Edema
Pulmonary Edema
Hemorrhaging
Disruption of food digestion, absorption or metabolism
Coma
Death
The other way people suffer aflatoxin poisoning is by taking in small amounts of aflatoxins at a time, but over a long period. This might happen if a person’s diet has a small amount of aflatoxins, for example. When this happens it can cause:
Growth and development impairment
Liver cancer due to DNA mutation caused by aflatoxins
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