• 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 food poisoning.

• Vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps, headache and fever with chills, starting in the interval from 12 to 48 hours after consumption of contaminated food – especially seafood – usually indicate the viral nature of poisoning.

• Vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, dizziness, tears in the eyes, copious salivation, clouding of consciousness and pain in the stomach, beginning in 30 minutes after consumption of contaminated products – typical symptoms of chemical food poisoning.

• Partial loss of speech or vision, paralysis of muscles from the head and continue throughout the body, and vomiting may indicate botulism – a serious but rare food poisoning.

You should turn to doctor if notice the following symptoms:

• Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea that lasts more than two days.

• Age of the patient is less than three years.

• Decrease of the temperature.

• The emergence of symptoms after a recent overseas trip.

• Massive symptoms in several people.

• The patient can not drink.

• For two days the patient is not stabilized.

• Weakened immune systems or chronic diseases (HIV / AIDS, cancer or the effects of chemotherapy, renal disease).

• Inability to take assigned medications because of vomiting.

• Any signs of damage to the nervous system, such as the inarticulate speech, muscle weakness, diplopy, or difficulty with swallowing function.

Call an ambulance, in the case of following food poisoning sings:

• Fainting or unconsciousness

• Temperatures above 39 ° C.

• Acute or spasmodic pain.

• Bloating.

• Change color of the skin and eyes.

• Haematemesis.

• You can’t urinate.

• Problems with breathing and swallowing function.

• Inflammation of the joints or rashes appearance on the skin.

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 corizid bugs.

2. The following choleroid poisoning, the symptoms of which are diarrhea and vomiting, accompanied by a decline in force, with a protracted form of brain disorder observed phenomena: the state of delirium or sleepy. Sometimes this phenomenon joins jaundice. This kind of poisoning occurs after eating the most dangerous of the entire group of poisonous mushrooms – pale toadstool and its varieties. Lines contain Helvetian acid that destroys red blood cells. The first signs of poisoning appear within 6 – 10 hr. and are characterized by pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, and head pain. In severe poisoning in 2 – 3rd day develops jaundice. Helvetian acid unstable and easily destroyed during cooking.

Poisoning of the same type may occur with the use of fungi, stored long time after cooking.

Particularly difficult has pale toadstool poisoning. Fatal poisoning can cause even one eaten mushroom. When toadstool poisoning there occur four main periods: hidden (lasts 8 to 24 hours, since the eating of the mushroom), defeated of the gastrointestinal tract (lasts from 1 to 6 days) with this the organism because of the diarrhea quickly loses large amounts of water and salts necessary for life, a violation of liver and kidney (starting at 5 – 6 days), recovery with a gradual recovery of stroked organs or death.

Symptoms of mushroom poisoning usually appear after the latent period. They occur suddenly and rapidly growing (nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, sometimes with an admixture of blood and mucus). Children has the most difficult poisoning, develops roast deficiency, often fatal.

3. The third form is expressed primarily in the disruption of the brain. There has been an increase pupils, the phenomenon of strong excitation or suppression, convulsions, increased salivation and sweating, abdominal pain, nausea vomiting indomitable. In the future, there is delirium, hallucinations. The first signs of poisoning occur in 1 / 2 – hour since the use of mushrooms. This form of poisoning is caused mainly by fly agaric.

4. The fourth form of the following mushroom poisoning symptoms: salivation abdominal pain (without diarrhea), the narrowing of pupils, fatigue occurs very rarely. These all called satanic mushrooms and gray honey mushroom. Symptoms of poisoning conditionally edible mushrooms (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea) occur in 1 – 3 hours after meals, called it with the poison or a mold, or bacterial infection with fungi after improper storage or poor cooking. Recovery occurs in 1 – 2 days.

Gradually, the man ceases to navigate in the environment, lost communications experiences, emotional expressiveness, and mimic. In most cases, a protective reaction of the organism is vomiting. Poisoning increases with the increase of the violation of consciousness, slowed breathing, obstructed traffic, muscles relaxed, the person feels thunderstruck. The death at this time may occur due to respiratory paralysis or motor centers, as well as the development of alcoholic coma.

Signs of alcohol coma: cold adhesive skin, face redness, sore eyes (conjunctivitis), decrease in body temperature, vomiting, involuntary urination and faeces. Pupils narrowed, and with increase in respiratory disorders – enlarged. Breathing becomes more and more slowing, increasing the pulse. In deep coma develops collapse. Vomit gets into the respiratory tract, that often leading to death.

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 poisoning symptoms are:

- general weakness;

- headache;

- fever (under 39);

- nausea and vomiting;

- abdominal pain;

- diarrhea (feces up to 10 times a day).

Intestinal upset can take up to seven days or more, causing weight loss, dehydration, the appearance of convulsions.

There are also other forms of salmonella poisoning:

- Quiet salmonellosis starts with diarrhea and fever, but on the second day, only the high temperature and increase poisoning symptoms. The main symptom is the appearance of skin rashes.

- Septic form – most severe, is characterized by jumps in temperature, the formation of septic foci (heart affect, arthritis), is difficult to treat;

- Bacteria carrying can be acute, chronic, transitory, however, diagnosed only on the analysis, since there are no symptoms;

- Subclinical form is determined by faeces analysis and the identification of antibodies in the blood

Mercury poisoning

In chronic poisoning, which occurs during long-term inhalation of even very small concentrations of mercury vapor, there is a general weakness, drowsiness, headache, malaise, emotional and vegetative lability, sweating, recurrent muscle cramps in gastrocnemius muscle.

While survey, reveals fine fingers’, eyelids, tongue tremor; persistent red dermographizm, the revival of tendon reflexes. Very often occur an increase in thyroid, dysfunction of sexual glands, dyspeptic disorders, stomatitis, and gingivitis.

In more severe poisoning against a growing background of these poisoning symptoms, develop significant psyche changes: depression, obsessive feelings, visual and auditory hallucinations. An organic neurological symptom is increased.

There appears coarse tremor, which becomes more intention and extends to the muscles of the limbs, head and torso (mercury labeled tremor). Facial and hypoglossal nerves paresis, nystagmus, anisoreflexia, spastic paresis are not uncommon.

Lead poisoning is characterized by the following neurological syndromes:

1. Asthenic syndrome (headaches, dizziness, non-system nature, physical and mental fatigue, lethargy, a violation of sleep, emotional lability, narrowing the range of interest).

2. Lead encephalopathy (a significant memory impairment, intense headaches, reduction of criticism to your state, psychosensory disturbances and breaches of perceptions in the form of visual, auditory and tactile hallucinations, hyperkinesis, ataxia, defeated craniocerebral nerves, the phenomenon of temporal epilepsy, lead meningopathy).

3. Lead colic occurring as a kind of vegetative crisis (Cramping pain, disruption of the intestine, vomiting, tachycardia, rising blood pressure, elevated levels of catecholamine’s in the blood).

4. Lead palsy – the most severe and typical syndrome. The paralysis may be myogenic (toxic myositis) and neurogenic (neurotic and pre-nerves) character. The most commonly affects the hands and fingers extensors (coil brush), sometimes with damage of the foot extension.

In this case, Aran – Dyshein syndrome can develop (with weakness and atrophy of small hand muscles). The right hand usually suffers graver. Brahial type appears muscles of proximal hand sections. Occasionally, occur a generalized type of injury with the hands and feet paresis or paralysis. In severe cases, the process involved eye-motive and facial nerves.

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, dry cough, unpleasant feelings in the heart. But there is no loss of consciousness. The contents of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood is 15-30%.

2. The average level of carbon monoxide poisoning. There is nausea, shortness of breath, feeling the shortage of air. Violation of mental activity appears with excited or thunderstruck, including coma. There are pathological reflexes, miosis, anisocoria. Note the appearance of skin hyperemia. Be sure to at least short-term loss of consciousness from 1-2 to 20 min. The contents of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood – 30-40%.

3. Severe degree. Coma of varying depth and duration from several hours to days or more. There were convulsions, pathologic reflexes, paresis, paralysis. The skin affected: at the scene, they may be scarlet color, when in hospital in a state of hypoxia their color changes to a cyanosed. Due to the development of acute nose and throat disease, and trachea-bronchitis, growing violation of breath until to the stop. On the part of the SSA – left ventricular failure signs. Changes in the ECG are not specific and in most cases show signs of myocardial hypoxia and the violation of coronary circulation: decreasing R prong all aside, the interval is shifted to the ST isolines, tooth T becomes diphasic or negative. In the blood appears metabolic acidosis. The contents of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood – 50-60%.

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 a rice broth with an admixture of blood

The loss of fluids leads to dehydration and a dramatic loss of salt. Patients complain of increasing weakness, headache, dizziness. Falling body temperature and blood pressure as a result of vascular collapse. Often there is periorbital edema, heart disarethmy, visual impairment.

Myocardial dysfunction can be up to the shock. May be skeletal muscle cramps, oliguria, proteinuria, hematuria, coma.

After 8-15 days of illness, there appears sharp pain in the extremities, paresthesias, paresis, with a predominant lesion extension, trophic disorders. Paralytic form of poisoning is a sharp weakness, drowsiness, severe headaches, dizziness, decline of cardiac activity, convulsions, coma.

Death occurs from paralysis of respiratory and vascular-motor centers. A survivor is a heavy diffuse lesion of nervous system in the form of toxic encephalopathy (disturbance of speech, coordination of movements, epileptiform convulsions, weakening of memory, psychoses), entcephalomyeloneuropathy. Arsenic poisoning has expressed pain syndrome, the prevalence of symmetrical development of paralysis, amyotrophia, development of secondary contractures, in violation of muscular-articular sensitivity.

Chronic arsenic poisoning

Neuropathy – the distinguishing feature of chronic arsenic poisoning (symmetric, sensory-motor type). A feature of arsenic polyneuritis an earlier disturbance sensitivity of distal divisions of the hands and feet, spontaneous pain, paresthesia, hyperpathia.

May develop muscle atrophy, paralysis, paresis, ataxia. There are visual and auditory neuritis nerves, vestibular disorder, breach of bone conduction. Polyneuritis characterized by positive radicular symptoms and signs of lesions of lateral and anterior horns of the spinal cord.

There is also encephalopathy – a violation of the memory, speech, psychosis. Often, the blood system suffers: anemia, reduced hemoglobin, leukopenia with marked neutropenia, eosinophilia,

In bone marrow hyperplasia of red germ. May develop chronic hepatitis, myocardiodystrophy, pericarditis, toxic renal failure.

Arsenic poisoning should be suspected in anyone with the combination of the following symptoms: nervous, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders; hemolytic deviations, skin lesions, a violation of the functional status of the liver and kidneys.