Today, I will give you some information about food poisoning because these days, I heard that some of my friends had food poisoning because of the foods that they ate. I know how terrible that illness is because when I was 5 years old, I had that illness because of a bar of chocolate which is expiry day has passed.
Food poisoning is an illness which occurs when people eat foods or drink liquids which are corrupted because of many various reasons.
Here are some of these reasons:
1.Bacterias: If people eat food which includes bad bacterias in it, it will affect their stomach and the whole digestion system in a bad way and they will have the illness food poisoning. Bad bacterias are very harmful for human health and they make people ill.These bad bacterias will occur in these foods by the time pass and there are three other facts and factors for bacterias to hide in those foods.
You can see these facts and factors below:
a.Hygiene- If people do not consume hygenic foods, that will be another reason for being ill because of food poisoning. The word hygenic means clean, so we should keep our food clean and before we eat, we should be sure that our food is clean. For example, if we buy a vegetable from a green grocer, we should wash it carefully before we eat unless the bad bacterias will be on these vegetables and make us sick.
b. Expiration Date- There is a reason for every single food that we buy from market to have expiration date on them. If we don’t consume these foods before their expiration dates, the illness food poisoning will occur and the food will be corrupted and include bad bacterias in it after it’s expiration date past.
c. Weather- The weather is another fact for food to include bad bacterias and corrupt. Hot weather makes the food corrupted and also disrupts the chemistry of the food. If we put a food which corrupts easily outside the sun will affect it and it will corrupt quickly and if we eat it, we will have food poisoning. For example, the city where I live in is famous with it’s hot weather and when I put a food outside it corrupts easily and immediately goes into the bin.
2.Chemicals: And also the chemical substances that are used in the food sometimes can react with the food by the time pass. This reaction makes us ill and causes food poisoning.
3. Allergic Reactions: If a person has an allergy to a substance which the food includes, it can also cause food poisoning. But sometimes, the food itself can include its own poison in it. Just like mushrooms. The %50 of people who eat poisonous mushrooms are dying because of that.
The symptoms of food poisoning:
1.Stomach ache
2.Vomiting
3.Diarreha
4.Fever
The Treatment for Food Poisoning:
If you had food poisoning, you should immediately go to a doctor and the doctor should find out that what caused your food poisoning. If it is caused by a bacteria, antibiotics can be necessary but if it is caused by a virus, the antibiotics will not be effective. Sometimes there is no need to a remedy and the poisoning will stop in between 12 or 24 hours , but in this time period, the patients will vomit and have stomach aches. The best thing to do for them is a home rest. They should not eat oily foods but they also shouldn’t eat foods which have sediments. They should just eat foods which make their digestive systems work properly. So, try to eat carefully and don't have food poisoning...That's all :)
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