What to do if you eat moldy food

It is best not to eat moldy food, because eating moldy food may cause gastrointestinal digestion abnormalities and cause abdominal pain. In addition, moldy food contains many toxic substances and may cause cancer. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone should avoid eating moldy food. If you accidentally eat moldy food, you should drink more hot water to slow down the process. If you eat too much, you will need to go to the hospital for gastric lavage.

Many people accidentally eat moldy food. We all know that moldy food has a lot of bacteria on it, and moldy food can cause disorders and irritation of the gastrointestinal system. It must be diagnosed and treated in time and reasonable methods must be adopted for treatment. Let us briefly analyze how to deal with moldy food.

1. Stay Calm

If the amount of moldy food we eat is not very large or we eat very little, we can ignore it. If there is nothing wrong with our body and no abnormal changes occur, there is no need to worry. Many times, they will slowly dissipate on their own. We can drink some hot water to slowly process it.

2. See a hospital for treatment when the condition is serious

If the situation is very serious, you must go to the hospital for treatment. Many people eat large amounts of moldy food, and these moldy foods often lead to acute vomiting, diarrhea, and acute gastroenteritis. At this time, you must go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

3. Gastric lavage

If you feel extremely uncomfortable or in pain, you should consider gastric lavage or intestinal lavage. Of course, this decision should be made based on the doctor's judgment. You should follow whatever the doctor says. If you feel any discomfort, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time. Our doctors will give you some guidance and will definitely help us eliminate the condition.

What we have introduced here are simple instructions on what to do after eating moldy food. If we eat moldy food, we must take the correct method of diagnosis and treatment. If it doesn’t work, we must go to the hospital and ask the doctor for help. The doctor will definitely give us some timely guidance and help us eliminate the pain.