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Report on Ethiological structure, Pathogenesis, Clinic, the treatment principles of the food poisonings.
Definition - Food poisoning is if acute illness with mainly gastrointestinal or neurologic manifestations
that results from eating food that is...
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Pg - 1
Report on Ethiological structure, Pathogenesis, Clinic, the treatment principles of the food poisonings.
Definition - Food poisoning is if acute illness with mainly gastrointestinal or neurologic manifestations
that results from eating food that is contaminated either by bacteria or bacterial toxins or by chemicals.
Symptoms usually commence 1-24 hours after ingestion and include vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and
nausea.
Can be divided in to (a) microbial
(b) Chemicals of nonmicrobial origin.
(a) Microbial Food Poisoning
IP Bacteria Tosxins/mech
anismo
location
Symptoms &
recovery time
Diagnosis Source
1-6hrs
8-16hrs
1.
Staphylo
c-occus
aureus
2.
Bacillus
cereus
(emetic
form)
1.
Cl.
perfringes
2.
B.
cereus
(diarrhoea
form)
-Noninflam
matory
(enterotoxine)
-Proximal
small bowel
"
"
Noninflammat
ory
(enterotoxins)
-Proximal
small bowel
"
"
A/
1 Diarrhoea,
2 vomiting
3 dehydration
4 shock
B/ Recovers
rapidly (few
hours)
A/ Same
clinics
B/ Recovers
rapidly
A/1.
Watery
dia
Less
