What to do with food poisoning
In the first place, it is desirable to call a doctor. Perhaps the poisoning will be difficult and you will need hospitalization. Otherwise, you will be given the right treatment, and your condition will improve quickly. You can also resort to the treatment of food poisoning with the help of traditional medicine recipes.
The main people's council for food poisoning is to move more, this will help to remove toxins from the body faster. These substances leave the body with sweat, so you should often take a warm shower. Perfectly detoxifies the sauna.
When food poisoning should drink more liquids, which also helps to remove toxins. You can drink green or slightly brewed black tea, broth of wild rose or mountain ash, water with lemon juice.
One of the most effective folk prescription for the treatment of food poisoning is the decoction of dill and honey. For its preparation, fresh or dried dill, as well as ground seeds, is suitable. If the fennel is fresh, then it will take 1 tablespoon, if dry - 1 teaspoon, if the seeds - 0.5 teaspoon. Dill is filled with a glass of boiling water, and boiled for 20 minutes over low heat. Then the broth is cooled, boiled water is added to the former volume and 1 tablespoon of honey. The received product is taken by 0.5 glasses 3-4 times a day.
Another popular remedy is the healing mucus from the root of the althaea. It is necessary to finely chop 1 teaspoon of althea root and pour 0.5 cups of boiling water. All this is to insist under the lid for 30 minutes, then add honey to taste and strain. Take 4 times a day for 1 tablespoon adults and 1 teaspoonful for children.
To facilitate the state of food poisoning will help and ginger infusion. To make it, you need 1 teaspoon of ground ginger, pour a glass of boiling water and insist 20 minutes in a warm place. The resulting broth is taken every half hour-hour for 1 tablespoon.
Prevention of food poisoning
First of all, for cooking you need to use only fresh and quality products. Particular attention should be paid to freshly frozen products. Often such products are refrozen, which reduces their quality.
Also, you need to know certain rules when preparing seafood and meat, which will help to avoid poisoning. For example, veal and lamb meat should reach an external temperature of 75 degrees, poultry meat - 80, pork steaks - 70. About the readiness of meat should say golden light juice, which should appear when piercing the meat with a fork. The fish should not stick to the fork and be transparent, the shrimp should be cooked until they turn pink, and the mussels and oysters are a hazy shade and swell.
One of the most common intestinal infections is salmonellosis. Inhabits the causative agent of this infection (salmonella) in sausage, eggs and cheese. Get rid of it is very difficult, so sausage and cheese should only eat fresh, the eggs should be steeply cooked, and scrambled eggs and eggs should be prepared for at least 7 minutes.
Keep dishes only in a closed container in the refrigerator, but not more than a few hours. Before boiling vegetables, they should be thoroughly washed, if they are cut raw on salad or for other dishes, then you need to do this only with clean hands. It is advisable not to allow raw and boiled products to be sliced on the same cutting board.
Frozen canned food is better to throw out. Store sausage, sausages, fish and meat sliced in open packages need not more than three days.
Food poisoning can be not only unpleasant and painful, but also carry a danger to health and life. Do not risk your health and the health of your family, be careful about choosing food, do not try to save. Try and on holidays, and on weekdays to eat only fresh food. Then the reception of food will cause only pleasure, and the holidays - joy and fun.