From what one can die at barbecues 9 elementary mistakes

1. Wash their hands or utensils in the reservoir

The water in open water looks clean, so it seems that washing hands, dishes or vegetables in it safely. This is not true. It will wash away dust and dirt, but not bacteria, and parasites. Will wash his hands in a water, and will touch to the mouth and possibly transported back into the bacteria. In ponds and rivers are:

• colon bacillus - usually causesE.Coli fever, vomiting and bloody diarrhea. It can lead to death.
• Shigella - also provokedshigellosis vomiting, fever, diarrhea and abdominal pain. The reaction occurs in a couple of days after getting the bacteria into the body. In the worst case, cause dysentery.
• cyanobacteria - are usually safe, but they can be toxins. they irritatecyanobacteria throat, cause vomiting and headache. Can damage the liver.

2. Tried dirty berries or vegetables bought at the roadside

Microorganisms can live even in the garden apple, wild raspberries and other vegetables, fruits and berries. This also applies to those fruits that you have collected in person, and those who sell gardeners on roadsides.

In the summer of microbes multiply quickly and live long. They fall on the fruit through insects, droppings of infected birds or manure, which is used as a fertilizer. So if you decide to taste fresh tomatoes, pears or strawberries, but not washed them, you can earn infectious diseases. infection symptoms for the first day or during the week.

• salmonellosis - provokingSalmonella fever, dull pain in the abdomen and false urges to go to the toilet.
• Dysentery - acute bloody diarrhea. Apart from frequent and painful trips to the toilet, she isDiarrhea chills and fatigue.
• viral hepatitis - evidentHepatitis A through the bitterness in the mouth, heartburn, runny nose, pain in the muscles.

Tatiana Loshkarova

Honored doctor, infectious disease physician of higher category "Medincenter"

Unwashed vegetables, fruits and berries are dangerous parasitic infection. It is not known under what conditions they were kept. A high risk for them of germs that can cause food poisoning. This may be a salmonellosis and dysentery, and ehsherihiozom and anything. And even pseudotuberculosis, if next to the fruit of ran rats or mice.

3. Ate the fuck up a salad or sour yogurt

Season salad with sour cream or take with yogurt for a snack, and on the way to the nature of stuck in a traffic jam. While you are traveling in a hot car, the food is spoiled (except when it is packed in a portable refrigerator). Decide to eat a salad, you can expect nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, and aversion to all food. In short, food poisoningFood poisoning.

4. Used dishes out of raw meat to cooked food

The raw meat can be a sea of ​​bacteria and parasites: Staphylococcus, Salmonella, Trichinella, tapewormechinococcosis. Many of them die during cooking. But if the meat is not fry thoroughly, or you put a piece of the finished product on the plate from the raw - bacteria get into the body. They can hurt musculoskeletal, urogenital and circulatory systems. infection symptoms: abdominal pain, vomiting, weakness, high blood pressure, high temperature.

5. Do not wash your hands before cooking or eating

We are traveling in a car, playing volleyball, picking berries, and then immediately sat down at the table. Do not do like this. During the day on the palms settle dangerous parasites that can cause serious illnesses such as:

• Cholera - severe watery diarrhea. Symptoms may occurCholera after 12 hours, and may after 5 days. Without treatment, in the case of cholera can not exclude death.
• Typhoid fever - evidentTyphoid fever through prolonged fever, headache, constipation, diarrhea, rash. In severe cases may lead to death.
• Flu - acute respiratory infectionFlu. Symptoms: fever, cough, headache, aching muscles.

6. Swim in the pond

In the river, lake or quarry, you may come across an uneven bottom with deep holes, to cling to the sharp snag or catch microorganisms. In open waters inhabited by parasites, which can cause inflammation of the skin, intestine, and even the brain.

• Naegleria fowleri - amoeba of freshwater, which falls in the person through the nose. Then the parasite crawlsNaegleria Infection the brain and begins to destroy it. Symptoms of Naegleria fowleri: headache, fever, convulsions, hallucinations. The parasite can lead to coma or death. So, if inhaled water and felt the symptoms - run to the doctor.
• leptospira - causesLeptospirosis Leptospirosis - heavy bacterial infection. Its characteristic symptoms: high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, eye redness, rash on the body, sometimes yellowing of the skin.
• celled giardia - provokingGiardia Infection protozoal infection. The disease affects the gastrointestinal tract and symptoms similar to poisoning.
• Schistosoma - flatworms whose larvae are annoyingschistosomiasis human skin and cause dermatitis schistosomes. It is often called "the itch bather". Body rash that itches badly.

In addition, the reservoirs have E. coli and other bacteria that irritate the gastrointestinal tract.

Tatiana Loshkarova

Honored doctor, infectious disease physician of higher category "Medincenter"

If you swim in the fresh waters in unauthorized place and water got into his mouth, then you run the risk of contracting an intestinal infection. The next day there are symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea. In addition, you can get skin problems. You may receive an allergic reaction to something unknown, because the body of water no one investigated, rash and fever. If the body of water contained chemicals can get toksikodermiya. It is characterized by high fever and urticaria (large mottled rash as severe itching blisters with). It is fraught with a serious condition that can lead to anaphylactic shock and angioedema.

7. We took the dog for a picnic

Dog hair is not perfectly clear: it may be particles of dirt, dust and parasites. For example, worms. If you scratched the dog behind the ear, and then immediately decided to eat meat or apple - parasite eggs can get into your body. Worms are different:

• toxocara - cause toxocariasis. he strikestoxocariasis eyes, liver, lungs or intestines. Symptoms: fever, anorexia, asthma, hives. Infection by these parasites can result in death.
• roundworm - cause ascariasis. symptomsascariasisNausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, sudden weight loss, an allergic rash.
• echinococcus - cause hydatid disease. The parasite takes up residenceechinococcosis in internal tissues and cyst forms. Symptoms depend on which organ is affected by the worm. Liver - jaundice and abdominal pain, light - cough and chest pain.

8. Collected and prepared poisonous mushrooms

Urban residents tell a good mushroom from the old or poison can be difficult. But the cost of failure - poisoning. Poison mushroom strikesMashroom Poisoning several internal systems:

• Digestive tract. There will be vomiting, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea. Sometimes in the stool and vomit can be blood.
• central nervous system. It all depends on the type of mushroom. For example, in case of poisoning fly agaric any hallucinations, anxiety and apathy, by the use of pale toadstool - convulsions, from morel - dizziness and fatigue.
• The cardiovascular system. Reduced pressure, and pulse rate.

9. They drank water from a spring

Springs - the purest natural springs. It is underground and ground water, which are pulled out of their own land. Water from the springs passes a natural filtration of soils. On the one hand abruptly on the other - in the conditions of modern ecology can go in harm.

The state of purity of the springs influences the surrounding space. Therefore, a source in the city or suburbs is unlikely to be good.

Rospotrebnadzor regularly checks the chemical composition of the top springs. The results often indicate poor condition: the sources are bacteria, heavy metals, phosphates, petroleum products, pesticides and nitrates. Because of the latter this year, for example, in the Amur region rejected 15 springs, and in Voronezh - eight. After drinking this water can earnEspecially acute pesticide poisoning Poisoning and laid up with headache, high fever, nausea and dry cough.

How Not to Die

1. Wash your hands and utensils just brought from a water. Make sure that it was enough.
2. Do not drink water from natural sources. Take a clean barbecues bottled water.
3. Take enterosorbent before the trip and after it. This will be the prevention of gastrointestinal disorders, and disruption of the chair, if things are mixed fat and heavy food, or if you still have picked up one of these infections. So you do not get sick.
4. Vegetables and fruits are the best pre-clean the house under cold running water and soap. If the vegetables, fruits and berries you find in nature or bought on the way, do not forget to wash them. Do not try to muddy the fruit, even if they look perfect: wash away the dust could rain, but harmful germs on them remained.
5. Wash your hands with soap and water or clean with an antiseptic before cooking and eating, and after swimming or play with a dog.
6. Do not let the dog lick himself. Dangerous parasites can live in the mucous membranes of an animal.
7. Follow food storage temperature. If you do not have a portable refrigerator, it is better not take on the nature of the food that spoils: dairy products, raw meat nezamarinovannoe.
8. Swim only in waters approved by Rospotrebnadzor. Check out this information on the websites of the regional office or in local online media. For example, in Moscow, only seven reservoirs are safe for swimming, in the Leningrad region - sixteen.
9. Avoid dive and not to open his mouth during swimming time so that the water does not flow in the mucous membranes of the mouth and nose.
10. Do not collect unknown and dubious mushrooms. Before the trip, look, look like toadstools, lozhnooponok, galerina, and Clitocybe mushroom. The latter has several species and not all of them have a red cap with white polka dots.
11. Keep an eye on the process of cooking meat:
    • remove the meat from the grill or rotisserie clean fork and place cooked food on a new plate;
    • roast meat until the end if it is not within warmed to the desired temperature, the bacteria survive;
    • Choose quality meat: do not take the pieces that a suspicious smell, have an unnatural red or vice versa pale tint;
    • marinate kebabs themselves sometimes at the expense of sauce sellers try to hide and sell old or spoiled meat.

What if the sick

Stomach ache, vomiting and diarrhea emerged - enterosorbent drink. He will quickly eliminate the effects of poisoning or contamination with harmful bacteria.

«polisorb"- modern drug based on colloidal silica. It looks like the air a white powder to be mixed into the drinking water, juice, or juice. The drug gets fast in the stomach and starts to work through 1-4 minutes: captures and naturally removes from the bowel of harmful substances and toxins.

«polisorb"Can be used for children, pregnant and lactating women.

The drug is struggling not only with poisons and microorganisms, but also with symptoms of poisoning. Already after the first receptions enterosorbent start to feel better. For example, intestinal infections it helps to recover for 3-5 days faster. Food poisoning "Polisorb" recommended to drink for 10-14 days, three times a day. The dosage depends on body weight. The drug can also be taken with the integrated treatment of viral hepatitis and intestinal infections. It will accelerate the healing process and minimize the harm of bacteria.

And do not forget to consult a doctor.

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