Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa

SoyChemist writes "Ciguatoxin causes bizarre neurological symptoms including temperature reversal, a burning sensation, and an imaginary feeling of loose teeth. It is produced by algae and accumulates in the fatty flesh of tropical fish. While traveling to the tropics, a man from England ate some bad seafood that contained the unusual poison. His story, and the tale of some unfortunate sailors of an earlier age who suffered the same affliction, appeared in the current issue of Practical Neurology and was summarized on the Wired Science Blog. Both the Wired blog and the peer-reviewed journal neglected to mention that the potent neurotoxin has been made from scratch by organic chemists."

Comments

Paradoxical Dysaesthesia

[die444die]

paradoxical dysaesthesia is hot.

Re:Paradoxical Dysaesthesia

[Anonymous Coward]

I get a burning sensation that it's cool!

Cool!

[sahar176]

Errr I mean...Hot!

Hmm

[evilviper]

Ciguatoxin causes bizarre neurological symptoms including temperature reversal,

Ah yes, good old XNOR poison... It's been a long time old friend.

Re:Ciguatera is Common knowledge

[ianalis]

Share it... for mutually assured destruction :)

Where to order?

[clarkkent09]

The article failed to mention where can I get some of this poison? I need to cut down on my heating bill this winter.

Re:Where to order?

[iknownuttin]

The article failed to mention where can I get some of this poison? I need to cut down on my heating bill this winter.

This is nice and everything, but I want know what the hell is my wife taking that makes her cold even when I'm sweating bullets!

Re:About the journal this appeared in...

[sadangel]

You insensitive clod! My drinking buddy *is* a world famous neurosurgeon!

LSD

[nurb432]

Can do this too. And cheaper.

Re:Nice curiosity, but what are the applications?

[Jesus_666]

Awesome! I can't wait to read this on the back of deodorant spray cans:

PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant will give your skin a cool and fresh feeling and will prevent sweating for up to twenty years.

Known possible side effects include prickling of the skin, headaches, numbness, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, hyperthermia, hallucinations, lung failure, kidney failure, cardiac arrest, an atypical form of Parkinson's disease, coma and death.

Not to be taken orally. Keep out of the reach of small children.

Warning: PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant is known to build up in the groundwater and in animals. Any object that has been in direct contact with PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant at any point as well as the remains of persons, cremated or not, who have used PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant at any point may not be disposed of normally and must be handed over to the Environmental Protection Agency as per the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("Superfund Act") of 1980.