Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Irvine Health, 333 The City Boulevard West, Suite #640, Route 128-01, Orange, CA, 92868-3201, USA.
UC Irvine School of Medicine, Medical Education, 836 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA, 92697-4089, USA.
J Med Toxicol. 2021 Jan;17(1):57-60. doi: 10.1007/s13181-020-00805-4. Epub 2020 Aug 14.
The Nerium oleander plant contains cardenolides that may cause human poisoning when ingested. A long-standing belief holds that it is possible to be poisoned by eating hot dogs or other foods cooked on Nerium oleander branch skewers. Oleandrin levels in frankfurters cooked on fresh and dry Nerium oleander skewers were measured.
Hot dogs were cooked separately on either dried or fresh oleander branch skewers using a disposable charcoal grill. The hot dogs were then frozen and transported to an analytical laboratory where oleandrin content was measured via liquid chromatography/mass spectroscopy (LC/MS).
The oleandrin content of hot dogs cooked on dried and fresh skewers did not exceed 343 ng and 701 ng, respectively.
Hot dogs cooked on Nerium oleander skewers contain a negligible amount of oleandrin with respect to that sufficient to cause human poisoning. Reports of poisonings occurring in this manner are most likely the result of an urban myth.
夹竹桃植物含有可在摄入时引起人类中毒的强心苷。长期以来，人们一直认为，食用热狗或其他用夹竹桃树枝串烤的食物可能会中毒。本文测量了用新鲜和干燥的夹竹桃树枝串烤的法兰克福香肠中的欧夹竹桃苷水平。
用一次性木炭烤架分别在干燥或新鲜的夹竹桃树枝串上烤制热狗。然后将热狗冷冻并运送到分析实验室，通过液相色谱/质谱（LC/MS）测量欧夹竹桃苷的含量。
在干燥和新鲜的树枝串上烤制的热狗中，欧夹竹桃苷的含量分别不超过 343ng 和 701ng。
夹竹桃树枝串烤制的热狗中，欧夹竹桃苷的含量微乎其微，不足以引起人类中毒。以这种方式发生中毒的报告很可能是一个都市传说。
