Ciguatera fish poisoning bed rest subsequent to a guanabana juice enema. In Puerto Rico, natives drink a tea made from mangrove buttons, purportedly high in B vitamins, to flush the toxic symptoms from the system. There has never been a funded study of these treatments. Other folk treatments range from directly porting and bleeding the gastrointestinal tract to "cleansing" the diseased with a dove during a Santería ritual. Ciguatera fish poisoning Ciguatera fish poisoning, also known simply as ciguatera, is a foodborne illness caused by eating reef fish whose flesh is contaminated with certain toxins. Symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, numbness, itchiness, sensitivity
Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois Health officials could not say that the contaminated water from Crestwood's municipal well caused any illness. They also said that they could not say the water did not cause any of the cancers identified. The officials said that they will continue to monitor the incidence of cancer in the village and that in many cases the cancers caused by contaminated water may take ten to twenty years to develop. Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois, a village in Cook County, was discovered in April 2009 by the "Chicago Tribune", which reported that the city had been