Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 144

Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 144 Question 1 What do Inuits avoid eating that early Europeans didn’t ? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1455562013'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1455562013')) Polar bear liver, but also any liver from the top predators in the arctic region as they can store high levels of vitamin A.  In 1957 Gerrit de Veer was taking refuge in Nova Zemlya recorded the effects he and his men had after eating polar bear livers. Antarctic explorers Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz were both poisoned after eating the livers of their sled dogs, contributing to Mertz’s death. Other animal livers to avoid include the Arctic fox, bearded seal and the glaucous gull. Symptoms of acute hypervitaminosis A include nausea, vomiting, headaches, altered mental status and seizures. [Reference] Question 2 What did Dr Ludwig die of? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet87453107'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink87453107')) Ludwigs angina, well maybe. He did die of an unspecified neck inflammation and it makes a better story to say it was Ludwig’s angina. [Reference] Classically Ludwig’s angina is a cellulitis of the sublingual and submandibular areas caused by a polymicrobial infection. ...
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