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Hunger Strike Fact Sheet for Self-Management

Posted on: 2019年 07月 20日

Hunger Strike Fact Sheet for Self-Management

PDF (in p. 1; Simple Japanese Version かんたんな にほんご in p. 2; free to distribute without permission)

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This FACT SHEET is the part of the material issued on the web by California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) in April 2019 (https://cchcs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/CG/HSFR-CareGuide.pdf), with the additions [in parenthesis] made on 19 July 2019 by M. Kashiwazaki, SYI (Shuyosha Yujin-yushi Ichido: Immigration Detainees Friends, Tokyo).

The copies are to be distributed among the immigration detainees on a hunger strike so that they can avoid fatal or serious dangers that fasting or water refusal may cause.


RISKS OF FLUID [Water] REFUSAL
  • Not drinking fluid can cause death within days.
  • Not drinking fluid can cause lasting organ damage.
  • You will get symptoms very soon if you do not drink fluids.
  • You should drink at least 6 cups of fluid every day. [Also note that a long fasting makes the sense of thirst and hunger too weak, so you should be careful of taking enough water.]

RISKS OF FASTING
  • Not eating food for a long time (prolonged fasting) can cause death. [Some hunger strike patients have reported that they felt extraordinarily hot in their head or heart, and it was probably the sign that they were in a highly dangerous stage.]
  • Not eating food can cause lasting organ damage.
  • You may become dizzy during your hunger strike. You should move slowly and carefully to avoid falls.
  • You may get many other symptoms the longer you refuse food such as: weakness, confusion, vomiting, stomach pain, and higher risk of infections. [In addition, fasting can cause stomach atrophy (stomach shrinking), muscle atrophy (losing muscle), and make you highly impulsive or irritable.]
  • If you are in good health when you start to refuse food and you keep on drinking water, you will probably survive for weeks.
  • After prolonged fasting (starvation) you may have lasting organ damage even after you start eating again and gain weight.
  • [Starvation, or a serious stage of fasting, begins when you have lost about 30% of weigh (namely, e.g. 21 kilograms if you are 70 kilograms before hunger strike). Once the loss of weight reaches 40%, death is almost inevitable (P. and L. Pojman 2011, Food Ethics, p. 128).]
  • [Japanese Immigration Authorities attempt to isolate protesters from other detainees, which is very dangerous if you go on a hunger strike, because no other detainees see and care you. So you should try to object to the authority’s attempt to isolate you.]

RISKS OF REFEEDING
  • Death may happen when you start eating after not eating for a long time. This is called refeeding syndrome.
  • If you have lost more than 10 lbs [10 pounds or approx. 4.5 kilograms] or have not eaten for more than 14 days, talk to health care staff before you eat again. [Japanese Immigration Authorities offer only poor health and medical care, so you should be careful of the amount of what you eat.]
  • Your risk of death is less if you start eating under medical care.
  • If you have not eaten for many days, you should start to eat by taking only small amounts of food the first few days and then step up to normal eating over 5-7 days.



by p-dragon | 2019-07-20 09:27 | アクション・イベント  

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