‘Foul-tasting’ almond milk behind rare Aussie botulism case
Doctors say antitoxin should be administered ‘urgently’ if botulism is suspected.
The taste of almond milk can be divisive, but a particularly ‘foul-tasting’ batch led Sydney doctors to diagnose the first local case of botulism from a commercially prepared product since 2007.
Their 61-year-old patient presented to the Royal North Shore Hospital with rapidly progressing ptosis, diplopia, ataxia and dysarthria, the team wrote in The Medical Journal of Australia.
