Food Poisoning

Identify signs and ways of first aid when food poisoning

Food poisoning

Food poisoning often manifests itself through symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, muscle aches, cyanosis, difficulty breathing, apnea, seizures, vascular collapse, unconsciousness.

Food Poisoning

Identify symptoms of food poisoning
When falling into the following situations, the risk of food poisoning may be thought of:

The person who has just finished eating and develops the illness soon after.
Two or more people show similar symptoms after consuming the same food, while those who do not eat do not get sick.
Signs suggesting food poisoning are abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Observing food shows suspicious signs, such as rancid smell, strange smell, worms appear.

Symptoms of food poisoning

The specific symptoms of food poisoning depend on the cause.

If the cause is caused by microorganisms (bacteria, viruses) or toxins from microorganisms (bacterial toxins): Patients often only manifest diseases in the digestive tract (such as abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea) , can be accompanied by signs of dehydration (such as thirst, dry lips), infection (usually fever, sweating).
If the cause is caused by food contaminated with chemicals, there is no natural toxin: The patient has a complicated expression, not only in the digestive tract but also in other organs, such as the nervous system (headache, dizziness face), heart disease (tachycardia, vascular collapse).
If the cause of these foods is inherently toxic: The disease appears immediately after eating certain foods that are known to naturally contain toxins: for example, cassava, bamboo shoots, puffer fish, toad, ...
Food poisoning will be very dangerous if the patient shows severe signs of gastrointestinal tract or dehydration, infection, or more symptoms appear:

Neurological disorders: Especially blurred vision, double vision, speech difficulties, lisp, muscle numbness, convulsions, headache, dizziness.
Cardiovascular disorders: Hypotension, arrhythmia, shortness of breath.
There is blood or mucus in the stool, little urine, pain in places other than the abdomen (chest pain, neck, jaw, throat).
Poor body resistance: Especially in children under 2 years of age, the elderly, people who are taking immunosuppressive drugs (often used in arthropathy, cancer, allergies), people malnutrition, gastroduodenal disease, liver disease, pigment disorders.
Typically, acute food poisoning symptoms will appear only after a few minutes, a few hours or within 1-2 days after food poisoning. Severe food poisoning can lead to death, mildly also cause fatigue, exhausted both physically and mentally for the infected person. Therefore, protecting yourself is the first necessary measure to think about, in which it is necessary to equip some important knowledge about first aid steps when food poisoning is extremely necessary.