How to treat food poisoning?
When using low-quality food and / or malnutrition, problems often occur, including food poisoning. The reason for 90% of cases of intestinal infections or poisoning are the usual "simple" microbes. But this can be avoided, it is enough just to follow your lifestyle and diet. If food poisoning has not been avoided, then follow the advice that we give you.
How to treat food poisoning
If food poisoning lasts less than 24 hours, medical intervention is not required. In this case, the patient should adhere to such actions:
- Get into bed, next to put a container for vomit and excrement. Before they drain into the sewer, it is recommended to treat 10% bleach( 1: 2).
- If there is a chill, it is recommended that you cover yourself with a warm blanket, and put a warmer in your feet.
- If possible, the patient should be in a separate room, it will also be better if he has a separate dish.
- Old people, children and people with weakened immunity, it is better not to contact the patient. As for the healthy, they must clearly adhere to the rules of personal hygiene, this will help to avoid the spread of infection.
- It is recommended that a patient wash his stomach, for this he should drink about 1-1.5 liters of water, then induce vomiting.
- After the stomach has been washed, you can drink hot tea and apply a heating pad to your feet. Food poisoning usually shows sulfanilamides( usually prescribed sulgin, phthalazole) and / or antibiotics( eg, levomycitin).
- The patient is recommended a constant warm drink, you can drink a weak tea with the addition of sugar. In the presence of debilitating diarrhea and vomiting, a solution of the rehydron is shown( the sachet of the drug is mixed in a liter of boiled water), this will help restore the loss of salts and fluid.
- To excrete toxins and microbes from the body, it is recommended that the patient take any enterosorbent( smecta, polyphepan).
- For severe pain in the abdomen, no-shpa is shown. But if a doctor has been called to the house, it is not recommended to take pain medication, as this will distort the general picture of the disease and the diagnosis will not be made correctly.
- Ginger tea helps with food poisoning. One teaspoon of powdered ginger is poured into a glass of boiling water and infused for 20 minutes. The resulting infusion take a tablespoon every half hour.
- To excrete toxins from the body, it is advisable to use pharmacist tinctures of astragalus, eleutherococcus, and also micro algae in tablets or in powder.
Even if the patient feels good, it's time for him to stick to the diet for a while. You can eat sweet tea, rice porridge on the water, sour-milk products, grated apples. For some time it is recommended to abstain from foods that strengthen fermentation in the intestine - black bread, whole milk, beets, legumes, cabbage, cucumbers. Abstain from alcoholic, caffeinated and sweet drinks.
If after self-treatment the patient's condition does not improve, it is recommended to consult a doctor immediately. Since neglected cases with frequent vomiting, diarrhea, marked worsening of the condition as a whole can lead to serious complications - germs can enter the blood, dehydration of the body can begin.
Treatment in a hospital
Food poisoning in hospital is treated with intravenous infusion of drugs. In addition, the lost fluid is supplemented by a plentiful drink. The length of hospitalization is affected by the degree of dehydration, the severity of the patient's condition, the body's response to therapy. Children with food poisoning are necessarily treated in a hospital. The patient is prescribed antidiarrheal and antiemetic drugs.
For food poisoning, antibiotics are rarely prescribed, as in some cases the patient's condition can only worsen. Antibiotics most often help with travel diarrhea, which was caused by shingella bacteria. When poisoning pesticides and fungi requires intravenous drug administration, resuscitation therapy, especially if there is a threat to life of the poisoned person. Often the patient is shown an antidote( activated charcoal).
