No food is insured against food poisoning: there is always a risk of eating unsuitable food or one in which there are harmful chemicals accidentally caught in the product.
Often, the measures taken to treat the poisoning are the same regardless of what the person was poisoned, but still, the tactics of treating poisoning from different foods vary slightly.
Also important is the age of the patient: children have less weight, and therefore the body is more difficult to cope with toxins because of their concentration. For an adult, for the same reason (because of the greater weight), the symptoms of poisoning can manifest longer than the child's, and this can in some ways be a weighting factor, because the most important thing in a poisoning treatment is to start on time.
How to prevent food poisoning?
To reduce the risk of food poisoning, you must adhere to several rules:
- Do shopping in trusted stores, where cleanliness and order are maintained. Even if the store bought a fresh product, which is surrounded by a common dirty atmosphere (unwashed floors, dust on the shelves), it is natural that some bacteria settle on it, and there is a risk of poisoning.
- Carefully study the packaging - the date of issue and the expiration date. Do not take the product, the expiration date of which ends tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This is necessary, because the expiration date is set with the condition of proper storage, which is not always and not always observed.
- Washing vegetables, fruits and meat. Some manufacturers or private sellers process products in order to keep it attractive for as long as possible; Vegetables and fruits are processed so that they are not spoiled by garden pests. Naturally, treatment with chemicals is sometimes a necessity, but at the same time it kills bacteria and some organisms that are not useful for humans. If you eat a lot of unwashed processed foods, poisoning can occur, so they must be washed before consumption.
Food Poisoning: First Aid
At the first symptoms of poisoning, the main task of the patient is to cleanse the body using various methods.
First aid for poisoning with fish, meat products and mushrooms
It is believed that this group of foods (meat, fish and mushrooms) causes the most severe poisoning, which can not do without urgent medical assistance - washing the stomach and dropper.
Therefore, the first thing to do is to call an ambulance. This is a necessary measure, because such poisoning can lead to a fatal outcome without providing competent and timely assistance.
While the ambulance is on the way, the patient is given a large amount of water with manganese. This will help eliminate toxins, disinfect and cause a vomitive reflex.
Once a person feels nauseous after consuming mushrooms, meat or fish, he should wash his own stomach without waiting for an ambulance. The sooner this happens, the sooner the recovery will come. If you tighten with this procedure, the body temperature starts to rise, the weakness starts to build up, and your health will become heavier until you lose consciousness.
Use sorbents - activated carbon, лиферан, white coal and so forth it is necessary after washing of a stomach. Activated charcoal is taken from the calculation - 1 tablet per 1 kg of weight.
After delivery to the hospital, the patient is washed with a stomach, and possibly placed in the intensive care unit.
First aid for poisoning with dairy products
The first aid for poisoning with dairy food should also be quick. This type of food rarely causes very serious poisoning,
Depending on the state of health of the patient, first of all, it is decided whether urgent medical assistance is needed. If you did not eat a lot of food, then it's enough to drink a lot of water with manganese and wash your stomach yourself, and then take sorbents every two hours. If the condition is very unsatisfactory, then an ambulance is needed. In a hospital, doctors will wash the stomach and monitor its condition. As a rule, poisoning with dairy products is treated no more than 3 days.