LIST OF DISEASE:
- Salmonellosis: It’s an infectious disease, potentially life-threatening, causes Reactive Arthritis.
- Hemorrhagic Colitis: Shows in abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea, may lead to the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.
- Listeriosis. Primarily transmitted via contaminated food, like soft cheese and unpasteurized milk. It can be especially dangerous for pregnant women, newborns, and elderly people.
- Campylobacteriosis: Usually transmits via contaminated food (generally unpasteurized milk and undercook poultry) or drinking water. Causes Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
- Botulism. Improperly canned foods, fermented fish, and baked potatoes are generally creating a higher risk for the foodborne illness like this one. Can lead to death.
- Intestinal Cryptosporidiosis: Can be contained in uncooked foods or in a food that was handled by someone ill. Doesn’t lead to death, but makes an upset stomach, diarrhea, and slight fever.
- Traveler’s diarrhea: The offenders usually are food and water contaminated with human feces.
- Hepatitis: Maybe contained in raw products or contaminated water. A person with this condition starts to feel like he or she got flu, urinates with dark urine and experiences diarrhea.
- Staphylococcal food poisoning: Meats that weren’t stocked in the refrigerator or were stocked improperly, potato salads, egg salads and cream pastries can be contaminated with it.
- Bacillary dysentery: Contaminated water, uncooked or not reheated food can contain it. Result in cramps, diarrhea, and fever.
SYMPTOMS:
- Abdominal Cramps: It aches. You just want to lie back and wait when it all comes to an end.
- Diarrhea: Watery, bloody, containing mucus. It can be all at once or you can experience only one symptom of the listed.
- Nausea: Unless you’re pregnant, nausea isn’t the symptom that stays with you all the time. Generally, it shows up first in case of a foodborne disease.
- Vomiting: Your body is trying to get rid of what’s that thing that poisoned you, and there are only a few ways to do it.
- Fever: It doesn’t occur always. But that’s just the way your body fights the infection.
- Dehydration: That’s actually a consequence of all listed above. Your body loses water with vomiting and diarrhea, make sure you rehydrate as much as possible.
PREVENTION:
- Probiotic bacteria such as lactic acid bacteria directly fight against intestinal bacterial infection.
- It produces antimicrobial substances such as organic acid and bacteriocins.
- Probiotics also improve overall gut health by repairing the gut barrier and causes the exact balance of gut bacteria.
- The balance of gut bacteria is essential for maintaining better gut health. Probiotic bacteria means good bacteria that prevent harmful gut bacteria.
- After all maintaining a hygienic life by drinking contamination-free water, drinks, and foods or by washing hands before taking foods to prevent you from foodborne disease.
- Raw or rare meat and poultry
- Raw or undercooked fish or shellfish, including oysters, clams, mussels and scallops
- Raw or undercooked eggs or foods that may contain them, such as cookie dough and homemade ice cream
- Raw sprouts, such as alfalfa, bean, clover and radish sprouts
AVOID THESE FOODS:
- Unpasteurized juices and ciders
- Unpasteurized milk and milk products
- Soft cheeses, such as feta, Brie and Camembert; blue-veined cheese; and unpasteurized cheese
- Refrigerated pates and meat spreads
- Uncooked hot dogs, luncheon meats and deli meats.
DEMERITS OF FOOD BORNE MICROORGANISMS:
- Some bacteria cause infections or produce toxic substances that are a threat to life and/or health.
- Bacteria cause spoiling of food so that it does not keep as long as we may desire.
- Some bacteria may cause infections of plants, threatening our food supply or ornamental plant.