{"id":4121,"date":"2014-06-26T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:45:26","slug":"wash-fruits-vegetables-consumption-skims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=4121","title":{"rendered":"Wash fruits, vegetables before consumption: SKIMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #121212\"><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Cautioning of health hazards, the SK Institute of Medical Sciences Thursday appealed the general public to properly wash fruits and vegetables before consumption.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #121212\" \/><span style=\"color: #121212\">\u201cThe experts at SKIMS warn people about consumption of unwashed fruits and vegetables, loaded with pesticides which they said can lead to serious health issues,\u201d an official handout said.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #121212\" \/><span style=\"color: #121212\">\u201cProf Showkat Ali Mufti HOD Emergency Medicine informed that they received 18 years old patient with MRD No. 801755 on 15-6-2014 in coma and shock who had consumed about one Kg unwashed cherries. Examination and investigations revealed that she had developed Organ Phosphorous poisoning,\u201d the handout said.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #121212\" \/><span style=\"color: #121212\">\u201cIt was revealed that the pesticide was sprayed on cherries few days back. However, the patient was saved by team efforts of doctors at emergency medicine, he added. We request people to take only washed fruits and vegetables and in appropriate quantities to stay safe and healthy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #121212\" \/><span style=\"color: #121212\">Director SKIMS &amp; prominent gastroenterologist of the state Dr S A Zargar said \u201cmaintaining hygiene and cleanliness is essential for health.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #121212\" \/><span style=\"color: #121212\">He said: \u201cNumber of infectious diseases can be prevented by simple measures like hand washing and proper washing of fruits\/vegetables particularly to prevent the spread of various forms of gastroenteritis as number of infectious diseases can be spread by contaminated hands and food, particularly gastrointestinal infections.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #121212\" \/><span style=\"color: #121212\">He appealed general public to \u201cwash fruits\/ vegetables thoroughly before consuming and store properly to avoid serious health problems.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Cautioning of health hazards, the SK Institute of Medical Sciences Thursday appealed the general public to properly wash fruits and vegetables before consumption.\u00a0\u201cThe experts at SKIMS warn people about consumption of unwashed fruits and vegetables, loaded with pesticides which they said can lead to serious health issues,\u201d an official handout said.\u00a0\u201cProf Showkat Ali Mufti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}