Lychees can be dangerous. Quite a surprise:
For more than two decades, apparently healthy children
in the Indian region of Bihar suffered sudden seizures and lost
consciousness. A third of them died, leaving doctors baffled.
But
a team of American and Indian scientists say they have found the cause
of the mystery illness, which killed more than 100 children a year:
eating too many lychees on an empty stomach.
The research, published in medical journal The Lancet, has found lychees — particularly unripe fruits — contain an amino acid that affects blood glucose levels.
That reminds me - they must not have become very cheap this year, because we hardly seem to have had any at home.
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