Jars of snake wine
A
Vietnamese man was admitted to hospital for acute kidney injury after drinking
snake wine rumored to be good for male virility.
T., a
61-year-old man in Ho Chi Minh City, is receiving medical treatment and renal
dialysis after he was admitted to the emergency ward at Thong Nhat Hospital in
Tan Binh District for kidney failure.
According
to Dr. Nguyen Bach, head of the kidney-dialysis ward at Thong Nhat Hospital, T.
took up drinking wine laced with herbs and medicine of unknown origin a few
years ago.
T.
believed that drinking from one to two shots of the wine every day would help
improve his virility.
Three
months ago, T. was diagnosed with prostate enlargement and dysuria, but without
such kidney failure symptoms as bladder stones, glomerular nephritis, and
autoimmunity.
Listening
to advice from friends, T. then reportedly added a snake to his medicinal wine
to “improve its effectiveness,” which has caused him to suffer from acute
kidney injury.
According
to Dr. Nguyen Bach, reduced libido in males from 55 years of age is normal and
not a disease symptom that requires any medical treatment.
The
mixing of unidentified medicinal herbs with snakes can form toxic active
substances that endanger the drinker’s health, according to the doctor.
Dr. Bach
advised that a comprehensive knowledge of the origin, components, effects, and
side effects of any kind of food or drug prior to ingesting is required to
avoid putting one’s health and life at risk.
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