Eating Too Many Apple Seeds Can Be Dangerous
Both allergies and death can eventually come if an individual indulges in too many apple seeds. Why is this? For starters, apples are known to contain a small amount of cyanide in each individual seed. While eating a couple seeds may not harm you, eating too many can easily cause allergic reactions among many other unpleasant symptoms. We will go over some of these possible reactions below.
Reactions From Eating Too Much Seeds
Apple seeds should never be eaten in bulk, and are not considered healthy like the apple is. The seed itself has no real nutritional value and can do much more harm than good. Here are some of the possible reactions that can occur from eating a lot of apple seeds.
* Headaches and migraines
* Dizziness, feeling faint
* Confusion, unreal feelings
* Anxiety and restlessness
* Vomiting, extended nausea
* Difficulty breathing
Convulsions and possible kidney failure in severe cases
As you can see, especially in those last symptoms – apple seed intoxication is nothing to play around with. With too many apple seeds in the body, anyone can develop a severe allergic reaction and possibly die from it. The cyanide in the seeds works over a number of hours, so after the seeds are actually eaten it will take a couple of hours for the symptoms to start becoming apparent.
Educate Children
Since children do not usually have access to this type of information on their own, you should always take care to advise your young ones not to eat the seeds. Since children are smaller, their bodies can often digest food faster than adults. This means that the poisonous symptoms will occur sooner but will also be much more serious. Whenever your children get old enough to eat their own apples, you should always take care to cut them individual slices so that they do not have the chance to access the seeds.
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