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this is poisoning from eating shellfish which have eaten a poisonous dinoflagellate, a single-celled algae found mainly, in the ocean, a neurotoxin, affects the nervous system, found, in the dinoflagellate, mussels, clams, oysters, scallops, from june, october, shellfish, more likely to eat poisonous dinoflagellate, numbness, tingling around the mouth, lips, tongue, face, muscle weakness, paralysis, the legs, arms, lightheadedness, headache, respiratory, stop breathing, gastrointestinal, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, shellfish poisoning a medical emergency, sudden, significant symptoms, taken immediately to an emergency medical facility, call poison control, appropriate treatment information, determine the following information, patient's age, weight, ingredients, strengths, time it was swallowed, amount swallowed, situation is not clear, instruct, necessary to take the patient, hospital, bring the contaminated shellfish, so instructed, procedures performed, use gastric lavage, give a cathartic, a bowel evacuator, activated charcoal, open, maintain an airway, treat the symptoms, survival past 12 hours, indicates recovery is likely, a small percentage of people actually die from eating contaminated shellfish.