Right now it is the season of hudud beans, strange flavored hudud, fried hudud beans, cold hudud beans …… these delicacies make a lot of food mouth-watering. (Hu beans, that is, fava beans) eat Hu beans whole body yellow how? Media reports, Chongqing’s Ms. Zhou gave her son fried plate of tender beans, the child ate after can, the same night yellow face. The next day, the child woke up, the whole body is yellow, even the eyes are also yellow. The doctor’s examination confirmed that Ms. Zhou’s child was suffering from hoodia, and if not treated in time, it would have killed the child. Fortunately, after the doctor’s timely rescue, the child slowly from dizziness, weakness and other acidosis state to ease over, out of life threatening. What is “bean yellow”? When you eat beans, your whole body turns yellow, so the people call this disease “bean yellow”. “It is a disease caused by a deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) in red blood cells. Patients with “bean yellow” are usually prone to acute intravascular hemolysis from 2 hours to 7 days (usually 1 to 2 days) after consuming beans and their products, which first manifests itself in the form of thick tea or soy sauce-colored urine and yellowing of the skin and sclera. It is important to note that the degree of hemolysis is not related to the amount of hoodia consumed. In mild cases, there is dizziness and weakness, and in severe cases, coma, shock, and in severe cases, death from renal failure can occur. If left untreated, the mortality rate is extremely high. Newborn screening, early prevention and early intervention Houdou huang sounds terrible, but as long as houdou huang patients do not eat fava beans, or fava bean products such as dal, soy sauce, spicy houdou, etc., and do not take oxidizing drugs, acute hemolytic anemia can be avoided. From March to May, when beans are available in large quantities, there is also a high incidence of “bean yellow”. “It is a congenital disease, so it is possible to develop it in both young and adult stages. At present, there is no specific treatment for “bean yellow”, but only symptomatic treatment to prevent the disease from occurring due to the consumption of foods such as beans by early detection. G6PD activity testing during the neonatal period can detect the disease and allow for early intervention.