What should I do if I encounter food poisoning?

What to do if you have food poisoning?

1. Emetic method.

After food poisoning at home, it is recommended that you use vomiting within one hour after the food poisoning. It is recommended that you take an appropriate amount of salt and add boiling water to melt, and drink it once after the boiling water cools. In addition, you can mash the fresh ginger and take the juice with boiling water to achieve the effect of inducing vomiting, and if you eat spoiled meat, you can take ten drops of water to help induce vomiting.

2. Catharsis method.

If you have food poisoning at home, you can use catharsis to solve the problem. For people with better spirits, they can take laxatives to promote the excretion of poisoned food as soon as possible, and elderly people with better physical fitness can also use senna to decoction or take it with boiling water, so as to achieve the effect of catharsis.

3. Diet.

If the poisoning is caused by eating spoiled fish, shrimp, or crab, you can take an appropriate amount of vinegar and water diluted and take it at one time, or you can use appropriate perilla and raw licorice to decoction together. If you accidentally eat spoiled beverages or preservatives, you can detoxify by drinking fresh milk or other beverages containing protein.

Food poisoning refers to the adverse reactions of the body caused by the toxic substances in the food, including chemical poisoning, which can affect the health of the body in light cases and even endanger life in severe cases. How can I prevent food poisoning? How can I help myself after poisoning?

The reporter interviewed Han Shutang, chief physician of the Beijing Emergency Center, on this issue.

According to Han Shutang, 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, lentil poisoning), and fungal food poisoning (poisonous mushroom poisoning). Food poisoning is ferocious, time-concentrating, non-contagious, and frequent in summer and autumn. The manifestation of mass food poisoning is that, in a short period of time, people who eat this food become ill individually or simultaneously, mainly nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and often accompanied by fever.

If vomiting and diarrhea are severe, symptoms such as dehydration, acidosis, and even shock and coma can also occur.

When this symptom occurs, the first thing to do is to stop eating the poisoned food immediately, immediately call for help to the emergency center 120, and send the poisoned person to the hospital for gastric lavage, catharsis, and enema. Some elderly people with underlying diseases, such as coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, etc., should pay special attention to nursing, and the increase in blood viscosity may lead to aggravation of the condition.

Special attention should be paid to the preservation of the food that causes poisoning, provided to the hospital for quarantine, if there is no food sample around, the patient's vomit and excrement can also be retained, and it is very important to determine the poisoning substance. The sooner you go to the hospital, the better it is to be rescued, and if it takes more than two hours, the poison is absorbed into the bloodstream. Patients with severe poisoning should fast for about half a day, and can be given intravenous infusion, and after the condition improves, they can eat some easily digestible foods such as rice soup, gruel, and noodles.

1. Individuals should develop good hygiene habits and wash their hands before meals and after using the toilet. When it is difficult to wash your hands when you go out, be sure to wipe your hands with an alcohol cotton or disinfectant napkin.

2. The tableware should be hygienic, everyone should have their own special tableware, and wash the tableware and store it in a clean plastic bag or gauze bag after meals.

3. The diet should be hygienic, and the raw vegetables, melons and fruits, pears and peaches and other foods must be washed. Don't eat meals that have gone bad overnight. Do not eat rotten food and dead poultry and animal meat. Be sure to warm leftovers thoroughly before serving.

4. Raw and cooked food should be separated, the knife and the board that have cut raw food must not cut cooked food again, and the hands that have touched raw meat must be clean before taking cooked meat to avoid cross-contamination of raw and cooked food.

5. Do not pick and eat unfamiliar wild animals at will, jellyfish and other products should be soaked in saturated salt water and preserved, and should be rinsed before eating. Lentils must be cooked before eating.

6. When taking medicines, you must follow the doctor's instructions, and be careful not to overdose, so as not to cause drug poisoning. When taking the drug at the same time, follow the doctor's advice to avoid mixing***. Dichlorvos, insecticides, and rodenticides, etc., should not be kept with food.

In case of food poisoning, you should first induce vomiting, and then send it to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible, because if the situation is serious, gastric lavage and infusion will be required**.

In the event of food poisoning, the immediate emergency treatment is to induce vomiting, which is just an emergency measure to reduce food injuries, and then go to the hospital.

Food poisoning is a very common phenomenon in life, and many people have had food poisoning, because many food fights now have hygiene problems, and many foods are easy to form food poisoning because they are not up to standard. If it is a mild food poisoning, we can ** ourselves**, food poisoning has a great impact on our body, so we should go to ** in time. So what to do about food poisoning?

What to do if you get food poisoning?

1. Induce vomiting

The method of inducing vomiting is to prepare a cup of boiled water at room temperature, then add an appropriate amount of edible salt to the boiled water, stir evenly, and drink it in one go, so repeat it several times to achieve the purpose of vomiting; Or you can mash the ginger, and then put it in boiled water at room temperature, stir well, and it can also achieve the effect of inducing vomiting.

2. Vinegar

Seafood food is very easy to cause poisoning, so we should pay more attention when eating seafood food, if you accidentally eat new seafood, or spoiled seafood, and then cause poisoning, you can drink vinegar to alleviate. Add an appropriate amount of vinegar to a glass of boiled water at room temperature and drink it in one sip to relieve the symptoms of seafood poisoning.

3. Laxatives

If you have food poisoning after eating unclean food, you can use laxatives to relieve the symptoms of poisoning. Because taking laxatives can effectively remove toxins from the body, so that the symptoms of food poisoning can be relieved. Of course, you should pay more attention when taking laxatives, judge which laxative you should use according to your own situation, and seek medical attention in time if food poisoning is serious**.