Treatment for CFP includes intravenous mannitol, a drug often used to manage kidney failure. In this outbreak, it helped reduce the patients’ other neurological symptoms. However, it’s not clear if the drug is effective for treating the sexual side effects, according to Dr. Langley.
Fish-lovers beware: The toxin responsible for CFP has no odor or taste and can’t be detected before eating fish. The poison has nothing to do with spoilage of the fish or the method of preparation.
Though CFP is endemic to warm water locales such as Puerto Rico, it is less common in cooler waters. However, that may be changing. “There is concern that global warming and global commerce may increase cases in new areas. Fish caught off the coast in North Carolina were contaminated,” says Dr. Langley.
Though the exact amount of ciguatera toxin necessary to trigger severe side effects is unknown, the more toxin you get, the worse you feel, according to Lorraine Backer, a senior environmental epidemiologist at the CDC.
“If you’re concerned about CFP, try to limit consumption of certain types of fish, like barracuda,” says Backer. “Be cognizant of what you’re eating.”
Other more common causes of sexual pain in women are vulvodynia, vaginismus, birth control, and even menopause. Men can also experience sexual pain due to skin conditions, Peyronie’s disease, or inflammation of the prostate gland.
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Food poisoning is dangerous difficult to cure and vomiting is caused in it. It also causes sexual pain.
I grew up in Puerto Rico and we avoided barracudas, particularly large ones, due to ciguatera. I grew up hearing that if you poked a silver fork into the uncooked fish for a period of time and the fork, when pulled out, came out black, that the fish had ciguatera. I do not know whether this is true and I have not tested it.
Whether it is food poisoning or a virus of some sort the best thing you can do is to get lots of rest and make sure to keep hydrated. Make sure to drink water or mix 50/50 water and gatorade.
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