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 disease caused by eating poisonous or toxic substances in nature. This could include poisoning by mushrooms, poisonous [...]
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 [...]
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 E. coli.
This bacterium can infect chickens, eggs and meat, causing salmonellosis. Although such infection poses a threat to [...]
Escherichia coli (E Coli) breed in the man and animal inner. Bacteria E Coli O157 can be found in the flesh, raw vegetables, and unpasteurized milk. Typical symptoms of food poisoning caused by the E Coli (high temperature, severe diarrhea and stomach cramps), appear in a few days. In rare cases of this type of [...]
• Always wash hands before preparing food, wash dishes with hot soapy water after preparing meat and fish there.
• Do not defrost meat at room temperature. Defrost it slowly in the refrigerator or quickly – in the microwave and cook immediately.
• Avoid raw pickled products and raw meat, fish or eggs. Thoroughly cook all these [...]
If food poisoning has not really hard, you can treat at home. The most important thing – is to gastric the lavage. Per liter of boiled water at room temperature put a teaspoon baking soda. You will need about five liters of water, but at once an adult can drink only a liter. Then you [...]
1. If you have grenades, clear one of them and the skin put into the glass with boiled water. After the infusion of this you need to drink it slowly. This helps to stop the poisoning.
2. If poisoning you can easily eat the rise – it removes harmful substances from the intestines. If you do [...]
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, which are rich in edible mushrooms.
Old mushrooms with a firm consistency can cause problems. You should remember that [...]
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 [...]
If any, even very lightly, mushroom poisoning, you should immediately consult a doctor or take the injured to hospital. Prior to the arrival of the doctor patient cleans the stomach and intestines and put him to bed. Gastric lavage is made with warm water, salt solution or a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
Gastric lavage [...]
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 3 g / l, lethal concentration is 5-6 g / liter. Doom single dose of alcohol drunk is [...]
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 [...]
A man in a state of alcoholic poisoning (see “Alcohol poisoning symptoms“), could be saved if the act skillfully. First of all, try to call him vomiting, to remove the remaining alcohol in the stomach. This will stop its further absorption into the blood. The most secure cause vomiting, irritating the root of the tongue. [...]
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 treatment there is a high probability of fatality.
Salmonella – small bacteria, which live rather long in environment: in [...]
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 [...]
In medium and heavy forms of the salmonella poisoning the treatment is carried out in a hospital. First of all this refer to children, the elderly, the workers of food and medical fields.
For medical treatment:
- Calcium (gluconate, glycerophosphate, lactate);
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs;
- Drugs for removing toxins (activated charcoal, Smecta, Mezym-forte);
- Antibiotics for germs destroying (ciprofloxacin, [...]
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, which becomes particularly significant in the spill, when the mercury falls into many smaller droplets.
Mercury easily penetrates the [...]
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 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. There are household lead poisonings, with the use of jam or pickles stored in an earthenware dish, covered [...]
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 [...]
Carbon monoxide is a product of combustion of different carbonaceous fossil fuels types – natural gas, gasoline, butane, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), oil, diesel fuel, coal, peat, and wood and tobacco.
Carbon monoxide is contained in the unburned pairs formed during the incomplete combustion of fuel, usually as a result of the use of improperly fitted [...]
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, [...]
Arsenic poisoning found in the mines, where ore mined arsenics in plants, where arsenic are in the pharmaceutical industry in the manufacture of arsenic preparations, chemical plants for the production of arsenic insectofungicides in agricultural practice.
There is household arsenic poisoning when eating grain poisoned with arsenic pesticides, or rain water flowing from roofs painted with [...]
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 [...]
