In recent days, a 13-year-old girl in henan, who had been in conflict with her classmates, had been unable to use half a bottle of paraquat and had been found and taken urgently to a hospital for treatment. The fourth day, however, began to deteriorate, with the lung deteriorating at an hourly rate visible to the naked eye。
The 13-year-old doudou girl suffered this torture, and the parents were already crying. Many netizens said, "why not ban paraquat if there is no antidote?" others said, "the paraquat gives you time to regret, but it keeps you awake to watch yourself die."
So, how scary is paraquat? Let's see。
What's paraquat
Paraquat is an efficient, trigger-type herbicide developed by the british because of its unique biochemical mechanism, which is resistant to rain washing, faster weeding and rapid passivation in the soil, which has the advantage of killing only the weed leaves, without harming the root system, effectively preventing soil erosion, and without harm to perennial crops, which can be used extensively in fields, by road, etc., while it does not produce pesticide residues and will passivate in the soil。
Because of its excellent character, it is used in more than 100 countries around the world. In 1996, a 33-year-old pesticide expert, li dejun, announced a study of paraquat, using eight years to successfully break out of paraquat technology, making china the second country to have the technology to produce paraquat。
However, when the reed army developed the crop, it was never thought that it would be cut off by human suicide。
Paraquat has a very good weeding effect for farmers, and basically two to three hours of plants die, unlike other pesticides, where weeding is less effective and prone to relapse。
How scary is paraquat
Some believe that paraquat has good weeding properties, does it mean that it is highly toxic? In fact, paraquat is not present in the list of pesticide residues, it is a moderate toxic substance, it has no soil residues, it has no effect on non-green tissues and it displays low toxic properties for poultry, fish, bees, etc., but it is an insoluble poison for humans。
It is known that only 5-15 ml of original fluid can cause the death of an adult, while prolonged skin and liquid contact can cause the death of humans, thus making it the most lethal pesticide for acutely toxic pesticides, as long as blood pesticide concentrations exceed 3. 44 ug/ml。
According to statistics, the mortality rate of paraquat is over 90 per cent, and its long duration and the pain of the dead is such that it is also the most painful method of death。
Paraquat is eaten into the stomach, corrosive to the throat and the oesophagus, when the mouth is burned, then the mucous membrane starts to decomposed the ulcer, accompanied by blood, where the pesticide flows to the large organs, where the systems of the body are corroded, and where organs die gradually。
The body usually suffers from ulcers on the third day of poisoning; the throat is sorely pulsed that it cannot swallow food on the fourth day; it is difficult to leave the respirator on the fifth day, and it starts to regret itself; and on the sixth day, the mouth is sore that it can't speak, and the lungs are corrosively fibroized, as if they were buried alive。
Then the patient leaves the world and, even before death, is conscious of the failure of the major organs。
One of the intoxicants said that he felt unable to breathe on the sixth day and desperately wanted to breathe more oxygen, and the doctor told him that his lungs had been sorely damaged that he had heard of them that he felt like a fish drowning in water. There is also a patient who says openly that there is a viper in his body that circled indiscriminately, causing pain everywhere and a little bit to devour himself。
Paraquat tortures humans so much that it is unable to metabolize itself, and attacks on the lungs and kidneys, like oxidants, cause it to die。
03, drunk by humans into bankruptcy
According to statistics, between 2001 and 2008, 8,000 people had committed suicide using paraquat, whereas in fact in 2004 the state, in order to avoid suicide, had requested production enterprises to include vomiting in paraquat, which was not the best use for people who wanted to die。
The most prevalent treatment at present is “ecmo+pulmonary transplant”, which is performed after artificial simulation of the lung, replacement of the heart for tissue work, and oxygen supply, and after dilution of paraquat fluid. In most cases, however, too many doses make it difficult for patients to survive。
At the same time, the cost of this operation is generally unaffordable, with the ecmo operating cost of $70,000, or $140,000 a week, and the other costs being added to the daily price. According to doctors, one patient spent more than 400,000, but only delayed his death by half a month。
As a result of the lack of cure for paraquat, the state cancelled the registration of production permits for paraquat on 1 july 2014 and banned its sale on the domestic market on 1 july 2016。
That is to say, after 2016, where paraquat ceased to produce, why has it been heard from time to time over the years that it was used to commit suicide
Primarily paraquat works well and sells cheaply, and farmers love it. The use of paraquat for weeding would have resulted in an additional $100-1200 for one hectare of land and a reduction of 2-5 processes by 20 per cent in operational costs, with sales exceeding 100,000 tons a year. Despite the ban, regulations in rural areas are weak, illegal traders continue to produce and sell clandestinely, while children are less aware of paraquat and use it to commit suicide。
What do you think, then, is to step up the fight against the illegal production and sale of paraquat, in order to put an end to its deaths
