puffer fish

[puf′er fish]

any of several species of marine fish of genera Fugu, Sphaeroides, Tetraodon, and others, which when disturbed can inflate themselves to a spherical shape. Their flesh contains tetrodotoxin and can cause fatal tetrodotoxism.

puffer fish [puf´er fish]

Patient discussion about puffer fish.

Q. What happens if you use a puffer and you don’t even have asthma? Okay, when i was younger, around 7 or 8 years old, i couldn’t breathe for a while and my doctor told me to get a puffer. When I got my puffer, it didn’t help with the breathing. So now that I’m older I was wondering what happens if you use a puffer and you don’t even have asthma? Does it affect your lungs or anything??

A. There are side effects to any medication. So why using any unnecessary medication? The inhaler could have salbutamol which will cause tachycardia (heart racing) for nothing. That’s not really a good thing for long term use. Or it can have steroids, that is REALLY not good for you … so just refrain.

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Fugu Poisoning
neurotoxin
puffer
tetraodon poisoning
tetrodotoxin

MUTLEY the dogfaced puffer fish has lived up to his species name so much that he has been put on a strict diet of one small squid a day.

Mutley the fish put on diet to get fin by Birmingham Mail (England)

CAPTION(S): Mutley the puffer fish has been put on a diet

Too puffed-up fish on rations by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)

Byline: LIZ THOMAS SWIMMING with sharks, playing with puffer fish and dodging hungry turtles are all just part of the daily routine for Jasmine Freeman.

I go to work in a tank; JASMINE'S LOVING HER LIFE IN THE AQUARIUM by The Mirror (London, England)