Symptom
Percent
Acute Symptoms and Signs
Dizziness
80
Nausea and vomiting
76
Abdominal cramps
51
Severe headache
43
Diarrhea
42
Palpitations
35
Agitation
<25
Chronic
Amnesia (short-term memory loss)
25
Diplopia
15
Confusion, disorientation and coma
<5
Table 1:
Acute symptoms of Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning in 99 patients, after consuming mussels contaminated with domoic acid [Perl et al. 1990].