Food Poisoning - Symptoms and Treatment

The use of poor-quality food, non-compliance with hygiene norms and processing of food, dishes with toxic chemicals pose a threat to health and life. These reasons almost always cause food poisoning - the symptoms and treatment of this pathological condition depends on a variety of provoking factor (infection or poison). Also, the length of stay of the product in the digestive system, the state of immunity and the resistance of the organism are important.

What are the symptoms of food poisoning?

The characteristic clinical features of the described disease are difficult to confuse with something else:

When fatty foods are poisoned, there are additional symptoms in the form of gravity under the right lower rib, bitterness in the mouth , bile impurities in the vomit, strong weakness and lethargy.

These manifestations occur within the first 24 hours after receiving poor-quality food. Usually, these intoxications are amenable to therapy at home, only in rare cases, medical help is required:

Mandatory hospitalization of pregnant women, children and elderly people.

Emergency treatment for food poisoning

Primary measures for the detection of symptoms of pathology:

  1. Gastric lavage. Drink about 500 ml of boiled water, you can make a weak saline, soda solution or add a bit of potassium permanganate. Repeat the procedure before vomiting with clean fluid.
  2. Bed rest. After cleansing the stomach should lie down, if necessary - take cover with a warm blanket, and try to rest.
  3. Removal of toxins. Poisonous compounds bind well and are eliminated from the body by taking sorbents (Enterosgel, Polypefan, Aktoksil, Polysorb, Activated Carbon).
  4. Recovery of salt and water balance. With diarrhea and vomiting, the body loses a huge amount of fluid and the necessary trace elements, which must be repaired. To do this, rehydration solutions, for example, Regidron, are suitable.
  5. Elimination of symptoms of intoxication. On demand, the administration of antispasmodics (Papaverin, No-Shpa) and antipyretics with anti-inflammatory effect (Paracetamol, Ibuklin) is permitted.

Further treatment after food poisoning

After improving the state of health and the general state of the body should continue therapy:

  1. Hunger. To relieve the gastrointestinal tract, one should refrain from taking any food in the first 24 hours of treatment.
  2. Continuation of detoxification and restorative therapy. It is recommended to drink enterosorbents and rehydration preparations for 2-4 days.
  3. Compliance with a gentle diet. On the second day you are allowed to enter mucous porridges and vegetable broths in the menu. Return to normal diet is carried out within 2-3 weeks.
  4. Restoration of microflora. During recovery, it is important to improve the intestinal biocenosis. Suitable drugs with lacto- and bifidobacteria - Lineks, Bionorm, Bifiform, Entererozermina.

When treating poisoning with fatty food, care should be taken to ensure that the liver functions, so it is necessary to undergo a course of hepatoprotectors, plant medicines, and essential phospholipids (Hepabene, Essentiale) will help.