Nigerian medical doctor based in the United Kingdom, Dr Olufunmilayo, have raised alarm that most restaurants, bukkas and eateries in Ni...
Nigerian medical doctor based in the United Kingdom, Dr Olufunmilayo, have raised alarm that most restaurants, bukkas and eateries in Nigeria now use the popular painkiller called paracetamol to soften or tenderize meat. He highlighted the dangers of paracetamol toxicity including liver failure and kidney failure. Furthermore, Our Favorite Online Doctor, as he is fondly called by his numerous followers on Twitter pointed out that the this unholy practice might have contributed to the increasing number of people with kidney failure in Nigeria.
If you still buy food from roadside bukkas and restaurants everyday:
MANY OF THEM WILL KILL YOU.
They are using paracetamol to cook meat for you.
This will cause:
Liver damage,
Kidney failure,
Paracetamol overdose,
And death.
I have just read roadside food eateries are putting paracetamol into meat to make it soft “fast”, save their kerosene and cook quickly.
While this may sound harmless, Paracetamol is a strong potential poison.
It is ONLY good if used within certain limits- otherwise it kills.
A restaurant owner confirmed this while being interviewed. They use paracetamol to cook meat for people to eat. Especially all those cowleg that is hard to cook, they put paracetamol inside. So if you are a fan of buying cowleg/bokoto at roadside bukka, your life is at risk.
They use it for goat meat pepper soup. They are using it for meat vegetable soup. They are using it for meat stews in many roadside restaurants all over Nigeria. Boiling paracetamol releases very poisonous substances that destroys the liver and the kidneys. This is terrible.
According to Nigerian Association of Nephrology, about 25million Nigerians have kidney failure. Hypertension is a huge cause but things like paracetamol used for cooking meat are also culprits.
People die from kidney and liver failure, we blame village people – not knowing better.
Bottomline, please I beg you, IF possible, cook your own meat at home. Stop buying food on a daily basis from roadside unregulated restaurants.
If you must buy, buy from a reliable place and never make it a daily habit. Kidney failure will make you bankrupt before it kills you.
If your kidney fails, you will need about 3sessions of dialysis and erythropoietin every week to stay alive. About 3 sessions of dialysis is 60,000.
That’s about 250,000 naira monthly apart from other medications and bill.
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