Aflatoxin Symptoms
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. 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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