Don’t eat bitter pumpkin, study warns after women lose hair

A specialist cautioned Friday that severe tasting pumpkins and squashes can contain strong poisons, after two ladies were harmed by their suppers and lost the majority of their hair.

French dermatologist Philippe Assouly portrayed the two bizarre cases in a logical diary, featuring a formerly obscure "lethal relationship of alopecia (balding) with a typical plant".

The plant family being referred to are cucurbits and incorporate squashes, gourds, and pumpkins.

In the principal case, a lady in France endured queasiness, retching and loose bowels, which began not long after she ate an intense tasting pumpkin soup.

The side effects went on for about a day. At that point seven days after the fact, she began losing hair from her scalp and pubis.

"The dinner had been imparted to her family, who had eaten less of the soup than she had, and they encountered indications of nourishment harming yet no male pattern baldness," Assouly wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dermatology.

A moment lady experienced nourishment harming with serious heaving after a supper that included squash. Different coffee shops had avoided the squash since it tasted severe.

"Around three weeks after the fact, the patient experienced significant male pattern baldness on her head and in addition extreme alopecia on the armpits and pubic area," the specialist said.

Cucurbits can contain cucurbitacin, a lethal aggravate that emits a severe taste.

The sharpness is reproduced out of trained cucurbits. In any case, now and then creepy crawlies moving starting with one field then onto the next cross-fertilize a developed plant with a wild or elaborate one.

"Sharpness in a squash should fill in as a notice," Assouly told AFP. "One ought not drive a youngster to complete it."

Three years back, a German passed on of cucurbitacin harming in the wake of eating a courgette stew, the specialist said.

These are the primary known instances of male pattern baldness because of cucurbit harming.