If you are avoiding your favorite food to avert Heartburn, you can avoid it with a little awareness and maintaining hygiene and frequently washing your hands. There eight major type of stomach infections like botulism, dysentery, food poisoning, listeriosis, salmonella, stomach flu, tapeworms, and trichinosis:-
- Botulism
- Dysentery
- Food Poisoning
- Listeriosis
- Salmonella
- Stomach Flu
- Tapeworms
- Trichinosis
Botulism
Frequently cause of food-borne botulism is from home-canned foods with low acid content, such as asparagus, green beans, beets and corn. However, cause of epidemics of botulism is from unusual sources such as chopped garlic in oil, chile peppers, tomatoes, carrot juice, improperly handled baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil, and home-canned or fermented fish. To avoid Botulism, the following guidelines should be strictly followed:-
- Persons who do home canning should follow strict hygienic procedures to reduce contamination of foods.
- Oils infused with garlic or herbs should be refrigerated.
- Potatoes which have been baked while wrapped in aluminum foil should be kept hot until served or refrigerated.
- Because the botulism toxin is destroyed by high temperatures, persons who eat home-canned foods should consider boiling the food for 10 minutes before eating it to ensure safety.
- Because honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum and this has been a source of infection for infants, children less than 12 months old should not be fed honey. Honey is safe for persons 1 year of age and older.
- Wound botulism can be prevented by promptly seeking medical care for infected wounds and by not using injectable street drugs.
Botulism is further distributed into three forms. Although botulism infection disease is uncommon but is dangerously lethal. Infected peoples are typically treated with botulism antitoxin.
- Food-borne botulism is spread by contaminated food
- Infant botulism mostly infects the young babies who have immature digestive organism
- Wound botulism affects the body through skin wounds.
Dysentery
When gut is infected by a bacterium like shigella. Shigella sonnei, stomach infection dysentery is caused. Dysentery is an inflammation of the intestines which commonly spread through poor hygiene conditions and hand-washing habits, especially in children and food workers. Dysentery causes diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps. Follow strict hygiene practices to avoid this painful infection and also make sure your children do the same.
Prevention from Food Poisoning
- By maintaining better hygienic conditions like washing hands thoroughly before cooking food, after visiting toilet and handling pets and keeping cleanliness in kitchen.
- Completely defrosted food before cooking and cook it thoroughly before eating.
- Avoid reheated food or serve it hot
- Store raw meat and fish covered and bottom of the fridge
- Store all perishable foods at 5°C (41°F) or less
- Rinse fruit and vegetables thoroughly with running water before eating
- Completely avoid expired good
Treatment of Food Poisoning
Food poisoning is often caused by any of the 100 different food-borne bacteria. Therefore antibiotic treatment is often necessary after testing for micro-organism responsible for illness as well. Most infections continue for 24 to 48 hours. Symptoms can include vomiting, headache, diarrhea, fatigue, abdominal cramps, and fever, although the severity of symptoms can vary. Fluids are quickly wasted from body through vomiting and diarrhea. To replenish lost fluids and prevent dehydration, drink plenty of water that has been boiled and cooled mixed with ORS.
Prevention from Listeriosis
In the United States, listeriosis seriously affects an estimated 2,500 people each year and causing death to 500. Healthy adults and children occasionally get infected with Listeria, but they rarely become seriously ill. Listeriosis is propagated through unhygienic foods, such as undercooked or raw meat, unpasteurized dairy products, and processed foods. Practice safe food-handling and food-preparation procedures to avoid listeriosis. The groups who are at greater risk are:
- Pregnant women - Approximately one-third of all listeriosis cases happen during pregnancy who are 20 times more likely to get listeriosis than other healthy adults.
- Newborns – Sometimes newborns suffer the serious effects of infection instead of pregnant women themselves in pregnancy.
- Persons with weakened immune systems
- Persons with cancer, diabetes, or kidney disease
- Persons with AIDS - They are almost 300 times more likely to get listeriosis than people with normal immune systems.
- Persons who take glucocorticosteroid medications
Prevention from Salmonella
Salmonellosis is caused by bacteria called Salmonella developing diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection among suffered people. Salmonellosis is pass from the feces of people or animals to other people or other animals. Salmonella serotype Typhimurium and Salmonella serotype Enteritidis are the most common in the United States. ¬The sickness usually continues for 4 to 7 days, and mostly patients recover without treatment. However, in severe cases the patient needs to be hospitalized. The severe condition is caused due to the propagation of Salmonella infection from intestines to the blood stream. In such cases the Salmonellosis infection may cause death if not treated promptly with antibiotics. The elderly, infants, and other people with weakened or impaired immune systems are at greater risk of having a severe illness.
Salmonella bacteria results salmonellosis, affecting the intestinal tract and causes vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, and fever. Hospitalization is required in severe cases due to dehydration. To prevent infection with Salmonella bacteria, adopt food-saftey habits by avoiding raw or contaminated undercooked foods.
Different kinds of sicknesses can cause symptoms of diarrhea, fever, or abdominal cramps. Therefore for determining that cause of symptoms, stool of an infected person is analyzed through laboratory tests of are necessary for determining the cause of symptoms.
Treatment of Salmonella
Salmonella infections usually resolve in 5-7 days often without any treatment than replenishment with oral fluids like ORS. Persons with severe diarrhea may require Rehydration with intravenous fluids. Antibiotics (ampicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, or ciprofloxacin) are not usually necessary unless the infection beyond the intestines. Some Salmonella bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics, largely as a result of the use of antibiotics to promote the growth of food animals.
