Food poisoning is a very serious condition: symptoms such as severe headache, weakness, nausea, repeated vomiting, fever, frequent stools. It is worth noting that food poisoning is by no means the only possible cause of such phenomena, so it is important to call for an ambulance. There are chances that these are symptoms of such serious diseases as appendicitis, pancreatitis, intestinal obstruction, gynecological diseases, etc.
Food Poisoning: Treatment and First Aid
Poisoning by food can happen at any time: it is too difficult in our time to keep track of the quality of food that we buy in shops and markets. Poisoning can occur as a result of the use of stale products of animal origin (animal meat, poultry, fish), and as a result of refreshments with unwashed fruit. It is very important to choose the right food for food poisoning, to help the body to restore its health in the shortest possible time.
So, after you have discovered the symptoms of poisoning yourself, your child, or someone close to you, the first thing you need to do is call an ambulance. This is necessary in order to get professional help and, most importantly, a survey that will help to establish whether a more serious disease is the cause of the pathological condition.
While the patient is suffering all the symptoms of poisoning, nutrition, of course, should be excluded. But it is worth to increase the amount of fluid used - in this regard, fine as normal and mineral water, which you need to drink as much as possible with a view to rinsing the stomach.
In addition, you can take a light pink solution of manganese and induce vomiting - this is also done to purge the stomach.
Eating after food poisoning
Food after poisoning should be very easy, so that the body does not spend energy on digestion and could continue to recover. To make it easier for you to navigate in permitted and forbidden dishes, first try to remember a list of things that can not be included in the food intake for poisoning:
- any soups with vegetables, croup or pasta, as well as milk soups and fat broths;
- Bakery products, except for hardened or dried bread and crackers;
- all fatty meat varieties and meat products;
- fatty fish, as well as salted, smoked and canned varieties and caviar;
- whole milk;
- millet, barley, pearl, bean;
- hard-boiled eggs, raw, fried;
- All fruits and berries are banned in kind;
- it is not recommended to eat honey, jam and any sweets;
- from drinks, diet food when poisoned excludes any drinks with milk and all kinds of carbonated drinks.
Of course, the nutrition of the child after poisoning is exactly subject to these rules, as is the nutrition of an adult. Surely it seems to you that almost everything is forbidden! However, this is not so, and the choice of food remains quite large.
Nutrition for poisoning in children and adults can include:
- soups on a weak chicken broth with the addition of mucoid groats;
- All non-fat varieties of meat, fish, poultry, steamed or in the oven;
- cottage cheese and souffle for a couple of cottage cheese;
- Boiled and steamed cutlets and meatballs;
- rubbed porridge on water - rice, oatmeal, buckwheat will do;
- omelette, steamed, soft-boiled eggs (limited);
- unsweetened kissels from berries and fruits;
- green tea and broth of wild rose without sugar.
Food for poisoning should be observed from five to ten days, depending on how quickly health is restored.