Typically, food poisoning starts with a combination of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, which can sometimes be with the blood, sometimes accompanied by other food poisoning symptoms.
Stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, starting in the interval from 1 hour to 4 days after consumption of spoiled products and continuing up to 4 days, usually indicate a bacterial [...]
Depending on the type of fungus, there are various symptoms of poisoning by mushrooms. One can discern four major forms of poisoning.
1. The mildest form is called milk mushrooms containing irritating resinous substance. These include: tussock moths, devil mushroom and some plate fungus. This includes poisoning of various hardened old copies of tinder fungus and [...]
The symptoms of alcohol poisoning – the appearance of luster in the eyes, face redness, increased of sweat secretion and the sebaceous glands, slowing heart rate. After some time, increasing pupils, the movements become sprawling and poorly coordinated. The language is too loud, often blurred, broken body language, concentration is difficult, and there is overestimation [...]
Salmonella quickly reach the small bowel mucosa, which produce toxins, causing diarrhea, pain attacks and body intoxication.
Salmonella poisoning exists in several forms, and primary among them is – gastro-form (acute gastritis, acute gastroenteritis or gastroenterocolitis), which is typical of food contamination by bacteria.
As all other infectious processes, the illness begins very acute. The main salmonella [...]
Mercury poisoning often occurs with prolonged inhalation of its vapors and, more rarely, when the mercury ingested in the skin or gastrointestinal tract. Acute poisoning occurs rarely, with large concentrations of mercury vapor in the air. There are headache, weakness, nausea, vomiting, fever. When you delete a poisoned atmosphere, and taking the necessary measures, all [...]
Lead usually leads to chronic poisoning, as it can be kept in a tissue for a long-time, especially in the parenchymatous organs and bones. The common symptoms of lead poisoning: “lead” skin color, lead border at the gums, the change of blood (reticulocytosis more than 6-8%, basophilic stippling of red blood cells), increasing the stomas [...]
There are 3 degrees of carbon monoxide poisoning, which are characterized by the following poisoning symptoms:
1. Light degree of carbon monoxide poisoning. Then you get a headache in the temporal and frontal areas, often surrounding character (like a «hoop»), dizziness, nausea. There has been vomiting, slight visual impairment. Patients complain on difficulty breathing, congested pipes, [...]
Acute arsenic poisoning
When ingested inside – metallic taste, burning and dryness of the mouth, difficulty and pain when swallowing appear within 30 minutes or several hours.
Gastrointestinal disorders are identified in any way of arsenic proceed: cramps in the abdomen, accompanied by profuse sweat, nausea, vomiting, which can become ungovernable, diarrhea, feces in the form of [...]
Food poisoning – acute condition caused by eating food containing toxins, biotic or abiotic origin. The notion of food poisoning can be divided into two major subgroups: poisoning as it is and bacterial food poisoning. Actually food poisoning –...
A lot of bacteria can cause food poisoning. People infected with staphylococcus infection can infect their food while cooking. And those who ate or drank infected food or water can get diarrhea, usually caused by the bacterium...
The most common cause of mushroom poisoning is the use of fried, boiled or dried poisonous mushrooms having similarities with edible. Sometimes the cause of mushroom poisoning may be decay products formed during the decomposition of proteins,...
Alcohol poisoning – occurs when a man drinks a quantity of drinking (ethyl) alcohol, which is much higher than tolerable dose. Severe poisoning (with a coma) develops when the concentration of alcohol in the blood is about...
One of the leading infectious diseases (especially in children) is an acute enteric infection caused by bacteria of Salmonella genus. The victims of the salmonellosis epidemic are people of all ages, including newborn children. In late medical...
Mercury – the liquid metal with a boiling point 356.60 C, melting point – 38,90 C. Evaporate at room or even zero temperature. The contents of mercury vapor in the air increases with temperature and surface evaporation,...
Lead poisoning (saturnism) occurs at the lead mines, enterprises, where produce the lead smelting, the manufacture of white lead, batteries, bullets, shot, at the printing and other industries. Poisoning occurs by inhalation of lead dust or vapors....
