Food poisoning might have been a joke in your college days when using it as a cover-up for a really bad hangover, but the reality is rather sober. According to the US Centers for Disease Control have 76 million Americans food poisoning each year. Of these, more than 300,000 requires hospitalization and 5,000 die actually. There are so many dead from food poisoning from asthma or alcohol poisoning.
Scariest poem is that while we might like to think it is a second-rate restaurants that make us sick, most cases of food poisoning in the home. The condition is a fair weather friend, too: most cases occurring during the summer, when warmer temperatures make it easier for bacteria to grow on foods.
Food poisoning symptoms
These typically include vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps. These usually start 4-36 hours after eating the foodstuffs concerned and has been reported to show as early as 30 minutes to as late as 30 days after eating.
Different types of food poisoning will provide different kinds of symptoms. If your vision is affected, you probably have received botulism (who is one of the nastiest conditions around, by the way), especially if you have difficulties to speak, trouble breathing, and paralysis that starts at the top of your body and moves down. Salmonella poisoning will supply bloody diarrhea along with fever and chills. If you see an awful lot of blood in your diarrhoea, you have the infamous e. coli. If you have any of these symptoms, you get yourself into an emergency room immediately.
How to prevent food poisoning
The first step is to understand that the bacteria that causes food poisoning needs warmth. So to keep your foodstuffs at appropriate temperatures helps a lot. This means that when you buy a food, and the home, save it, cooking it and eat it.
1) even if not all food poisoning comes from meat and dairy products, these types of foods more likely to grow bad bugs that makes us sick. For cooling food just after you purchased it, and on the way home, bring a cooler and some frozen cold packs. At least that meat and dairy products in the dark, cold, cooler cuts risk too much.
2) another thing to know when you buy food is the due date. Just because something is on the mat shop shelves doesn't mean it is before the due date. Many items are only on their due date. Be your MOM and digging far back items to obtain food expiration dates farthest out.
3) Laga your food at the temperatures that are recommended, and within two days of buying it. Eat it immediately, or save it in a safe manner. If you have even a whisp of a doubt whether a food is okay to eat, throw it. This is especially important if you are feeding the young children or elderly, because these two groups are particularly vulnerable to food poisoning.
4) Wash your hands. Again, just like your mother. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds under running water. Keep the hand towels clean.
5) Wash all vegetables and fruits. Draw cards vegetables in a bath of two tablespoons vinegar to the water, dirt, pesticides, bacteria and all the waxy residue a pint. You won't get sick and vegetables will taste much better.
6) Place your kitchen sponge in the microwave at least every other day. This mushroom is the dirtiest in your kitchen. It is disgusting, but your toilet seat may actually be cleaner. And anti-microbial soaps are good, but not enough. Only 30 seconds in the microwave will kill all the bacteria on the sponge.
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