If your autumn pumpkin tastes more acrimonious than common , you should believably terminate eat it . Abandon soup , put down your Proto-Indo European , refuse that risotto : or you may pay a darling price .

Two women have tolerate fuzz expiration after eating ( unremarkably - trusty ) meals containing pumpkin and squeeze . Described inJAMA Dermatology , the two women first experienced severe nausea and diarrhea , before lose their hair a few weeks later .

The first cleaning woman experienced food poisoning hours after eat a bitter - tasting soup . This lasted about a day .

Just over a week later , her hair started falling out in clump , affecting a large area of her scalp and her pubic domain . She also get from   trichorrhexis nodosa , where the hair becomes brittle and breaks easily .

Her family , who had also eaten the soup , experienced food poisoning too . However , they experienced no fuzz loss as they had feed less of it .

In the 2nd case , a woman became sick and suffered whisker red ink   after eating a meal at a dinner party company containing an oddly bitter squash racquets . Possibly the politest of the client , she eat up the whole of her meal admit the squash , whereas the other guests avoided the squash altogether . Shortly afterward , vomiting and   diarrhoea began with gusto , and three weeks later she lose pilus on her head , pubic region , and armpits , harmonise toMedical Xpress .

" acrimony in a squash should dish up as a monition , " Dr Philippe Assouly , generator of the study , toldAFP . " One should not hale a child to finish it . "

Effects of eating bitter cucurbit ( a family of plant that let in pumpkin , squash , zucchini ,   and watermelons ) can be mortal . Three years ago , a child died of intoxication after eating a suspect   zucchini lather .

cucurbit sometimes stop cucurbitacin , a toxic meaning that gives off a vitriolic predilection . It ’s multiply out of commercial crop , but can occasionally make its path back into a crop through cross - pollination with a uncivilized plant , Newsweek cover .

In both cases , the lost hairsbreadth eventually regrew . However , if you ’d care to obviate short - term alopecia and horrendous   looseness , we ’d advocate you discontinue eating squash racquets and pumpkins that taste bitter , no matter how genteel you are try out to be at a dinner party .