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Mexico-Increase the temperature and food poisoning

Tonka

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http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2011/03/20&id=5b9702cde609850c4999b7aaed28a814
Spanish to English translation

Increase the temperature and food poisoning

Ram?n Chaparro
The Journal | 03.20.2011 | 20:57

Up to 15 percent increase was recorded in the areas of emergency and consultation of Family Medicine Units of the Mexican Institute of Social Security cases of food poisoning.

According to specialists of the department, this situation occurs because the heat ruins the food is not refrigerated and served outdoors.

Thus the institution urged the public to exercise extreme care in cleaning and freshness, especially shellfish and seafood.

It was announced that those who have been most affected at this time are the children of three to five years of age due to not yet fully developed their immune defenses, or in your stomach there is sufficient acid and protector of the gastric mucus gastrointestinal wall.

IMSS staff warned that under no circumstances children under one year old should eat shellfish, since in addition to poisoning them, increases the risk of allergies.

Social Security reported 70 cases of food poisoning in the past five weeks of this year.

It was reported that the toxic effects of shellfish may also manifest as asthma, rhinitis and dermatitis, not only with a stomach illness.

Specialists of the Institute explained that nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain, colic, are the initial effects of intoxication and last to appear from one to six hours after contaminated food is eaten.

The clinical manifestations are temporary as to start working immune system defenses effects are limited to one or two days, however, we must see a doctor to avoid a worsening, was released.

These effects can be mild as a slight stomach and body, but may be more severe, as the appearance of a rash on the abdomen or chest.

In such cases, the IMSS recommend that you ask your family doctor and avoid self-medication, much less anti-diarrhea antibiotics, as these may worsen the poisoning causing inflammation and paralysis of the bowel, which can be drilled and produce a generalized infection (sepsis).

Another suggestion is to keep children well hydrated with plenty of fluids, including ORS life to feed on fruits, vegetables and boiled chicken, and if you eat seafood, do so if they are raw, just enough to fry or cook food for the many different bacteria die
 
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