Prevention of intestinal infections

Options for infection in the digestive tract

Naturally, the mouth is the most accessible method of penetration for microbes into our interior. In this case, you do not need to touch the mouth or tongue with dirty hands, microbes have many ways to penetrate. For example, through drinking in the open, through the fruits and vegetables that we eat, or it can happen while swimming in a pond.

Many will say that in this situation nothing will help us, but it's not so, protection and effective enough is. To do this, you need to listen to some tips and follow the rules. In order to know what and how to properly observe, you need to understand what happens to the body when intestinal microbes enter it.

At the moment there are more than three dozen microbes and viruses, due to which acute intestinal diseases develop, they quickly grow in the body and multiply there. Especially known of them: about dysentery, yersiniosis, salmonellosis, cholera and enterovirus infections, hepatitis of virus origin A and E, typhoid fever and others. Of all known infections, the intestinal form of viruses is the most extensive, they are quite painful and always carry such symptoms as diarrhea, vomiting, fever and nausea.

Quick microbes move very quickly, getting into the mouth, they quickly find themselves in the stomach, being stable, they survive in an acidic environment and penetrate the intestine, where the fecal environment allows them to effectively develop and multiply. But they do not sit quietly in us, multiplying they begin to damage the intestine, its functions, in addition, they secrete poisons, which then assimilate the body instead of useful substances. In turn, such poisons, accumulating in the body, very quickly develop various diseases.

Depending on the disease that developed in the intestine, there are different symptoms, for example, in case of enteritis there is severe diarrhea, gastritis is accompanied by vomiting, colitis can cause blood in the stool, and enterocolitis leads to a complete malfunction in the intestine. Depending on the type of microbes, their activity and the resistance of the human body, infection from the moment of entry into the body can develop either rapidly, literally in 6 hours, or gradually within a couple of days. Those. The incubation period is different for them.

How to make sure there is an intestinal infection?

Similar symptoms can be caused by various ailments, so to be convincing you need to know in what order the symptoms of intestinal infection appear. Practical all infectious diseases, including intestinal diseases, are characterized by their suddenness. Literally in a few hours, one can first suddenly feel tired and weak, as a rule, the appetite disappears sharply, there is a temperature, headaches and chills. Similar symptoms are present in the disease of ARI, it also looks like poisoning, but then there is a nausea that flows into vomiting. Vomiting convulsive, sudden while the stomach hurts and cuts, diarrhea can contain blood and mucus.

Together, all these symptoms make it clear that this is exactly an intestinal infection, and you should not do self-medication, but you need to contact either an ambulance or a polyclinic.

Prevention of intestinal infection

As in any disease, it is better and easier to prevent than to be painfully treated, and therefore take it seriously that it is being consulted and guided by the nine rules.

The first rule. Given that infectious outbreaks are increasing in the summer, many of them occur due to bathing in contaminated water bodies. Often people, seeing the ban, think that there is a bad bottom or too deep, but the ban is due to poor sanitation. Wherever there are official places for bathing, sanepidemstantsiya makes water intake and regularly checks its condition on a stick. Based on the results of the test, bathing is allowed or vice versa, a ban is placed. Especially this applies to urban lakes and streams, where you can not swim without a permit.

The second rule. Lazing on the nature for a few days or just on a hot day you need to eat correctly. First of all pay attention to meat or ready-made shish kebabs, which are always prepared, and at the same time people think that fried will not spoil, and hot damp does not happen. It is very important to prepare them properly and to fry them well, if you cook shish kebab in the summer, then it must be thoroughly marinated for a day, all the time it should be in the refrigerator. And during the frying, you need to give the meat to bake to the very depth, overcooked better than raw, remember this.

The third rule. Vegetables and fruits must also be properly chosen and eat them. When buying, choose strong vegetables, without dents and rot, be sure to thoroughly wash vegetables and fruits, even if they are washed in appearance. By the way, the earliest melons and watermelons are, as a rule, the purest chemical, so avoid them.

Any acquisitions from the market need to be washed before meals, and some should be washed even in the refrigerator. If you know that you have a weak stomach, it will not be superfluous to rinse the vegetables with boiled and cooled water. You need to wash all the fruits and vegetables, even if you eat them without rind, wash watermelons, oranges and bananas, do not grab a non-washed berries, such as plums or grapes for testing, as is customary in the markets.

The fourth rule. Another important point is the refusal of street food, however tasty it smells and does not beckon, do not eat it. Everything that is prepared on the street, in a covered or open kiosk, such as shawarma, belyasha, chebureks is a bomb with microbes, it is this food that causes poisoning. Firstly, it is not clear from what it is being prepared, and secondly, most likely, they are not from the heat with the heat, but not the first day they lie and warm up. If you are paralyzed from hunger, then buy in the store a bun and endure, it's better to be hungry and healthy than the well-fed do not slazit from the toilet because of diarrhea and vomiting.

The fifth rule. Do not prepare food for a few days ahead when the heat is on the street. First, with every hour, let alone the days, in such food useful substances dry out, and secondly, with the same speed microbes and decomposition products are formed there. Do not be lazy to cook every time for lunch and dinner, cook, eat, and the rest is better to throw. Very often soups are cooked in a large saucepan for a couple of days, in which case you need to boil the portion you will eat, in this case all the microbes in this meal will be killed.

The sixth rule. Water for our body represents life, but because you need to drink clean water, either buy purified water in bottles or boil it. Even a bottle of water can not be immediately opened and drunk from it, at first wash it, because there are so many microbes on its surface. Children should not raise food and sweets from the floor, that fell, then disappeared, this is a firm rule.

The seventh rule. Summer and ice cream are inseparable. But you need to be able to choose the right dessert, safe ice cream can only be deep freeze. It is dangerous when ice cream, as a dairy product, thaws several times and then freezes again, as is done in most street trays. This is a sure way to catch the E. coli.

The eighth rule. The most common flies are the actual vectors of the infection, so put the houses on the windows with mosquito nets. Flies carry on themselves all the infections that they catch from everywhere, it's no secret that they often sit on very unpleasant products of life.

The ninth rule. Personal hygiene should always be in the first place, wash your hands and not only before meals, but also on your return home, use a separate hand towel.

And finally, if you are still sick, then do not overstretch and do not self-medicate, but consult a doctor.