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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
