Food poisoning treatment methods

Recently, many people have suffered from food poisoning due to not paying attention to dietary taboos. This situation has a great impact on us. Food poisoning may cause us to feel great pain in some part of our body, and some people may even faint and be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. If the rescue is not timely, it will threaten their lives and health. Let us learn about the treatment methods for food poisoning.

Food poisoning refers to adverse reactions in the body caused by toxic substances in food, which also includes chemical poisoning. It can occur individually or in groups. Mild cases affect physical health, and severe cases can even be life-threatening. How to prevent food poisoning? How to save yourself after poisoning? Food poisoning includes bacterial food poisoning (such as E. coli food poisoning), chemical food poisoning (such as pesticide poisoning), animal and plant food poisoning (such as cassava and lentil poisoning), and fungal food poisoning (poisonous mushroom poisoning). Food poisoning is severe, occurs in concentrated periods of time, is non-contagious, and is more common in summer and autumn. The symptom of mass food poisoning is that within a short period of time, people who eat this food become ill individually or simultaneously, with symptoms mainly such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, often accompanied by fever. If vomiting and diarrhea are severe, dehydration, acidosis, and even shock and coma may occur.

When this symptom occurs, you should first stop eating the poisoned food, call the emergency center 120 for help immediately, and send the poisoned person to the hospital for gastric lavage, laxatives, and enema. Some elderly people who already have underlying diseases, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, etc., need special care, as increased blood viscosity may worsen their condition.

Special attention should be paid to preserving the food that caused the poisoning and providing it to the hospital for quarantine. If there are no food samples available, the patient's vomit and excrement can also be preserved. Identifying the poisonous substance is very important for treatment. The sooner you go to the hospital, the easier it will be for rescue. If it exceeds two hours, the poison will be absorbed into the blood and it will be more dangerous. Patients with severe poisoning should fast for about half a day, but can receive intravenous infusion. After their condition improves, they can eat easily digestible foods such as rice soup, porridge, noodles, etc.

Food poisoning conditioning methods can help us alleviate the situation of food poisoning. Food poisoning is very dangerous. The main reason is that we ourselves do not pay special attention to the shelf life or precautions of food, which leads to this situation happening again and again. In the future, try to learn more about some dietary taboos.