Food poisoning refers to the adverse reactions of the body caused by toxic substances in food, generally including bacterial (such as Escherichia coli), chemical (such as pesticides), animal and plant (such as puffer fish, lentils) and fungal (poisonous mushrooms) four. The symptoms of food poisoning, both single and group poisoning, are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, often accompanied by fever. Vomiting and diarrhea serious, may also occur dehydration, acidosis, and even shock, coma and other symptoms.

The main way to prevent food poisoning is to pay attention to personal hygiene and food hygiene. Food stored at low temperatures should be strictly sterilized and thoroughly heated before eating, and no poisonous, spoiled plants and animals and food contaminated by chemicals should be consumed. Once someone has vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms of food poisoning, the first thing to do is to stop eating the poisoned food immediately, immediately to the emergency center 120 call for help, send the poisoned person to the hospital for gastric lavage, diarrhea, enema. Before the ambulance came, you can take some self-help measures:

1, vomiting.

To the poisoning soon without obvious vomiting, you can use fingers, chopsticks and other stimulation of the root of the tongue to induce vomiting, or let the poisoned person to drink a large amount of warm water and repeatedly induce vomiting, in order to reduce the absorption of toxins. If after a lot of warm water to induce vomiting, vomit has been more clarified liquid, can drink a moderate amount of milk to protect the gastric mucosa. However, if you find bloody liquid in the vomit, you should think of possible gastric, esophageal or pharyngeal hemorrhage, then it is appropriate to stop vomiting.

2, diarrhea.

If the patient ate the poisoned food for a long time, usually more than 2 to 3 hours, and the spirit is good, then you can take some laxatives to promote the poisoned food out of the body as soon as possible. Generally with rhubarb, senna decoction or with boiling water, can achieve the purpose of diarrhea. In addition, because identifying the poisoned substance is very important for treatment, it is important to save the food that caused the poisoning and provide it to the hospital for quarantine. If there is no food sample around, you can also keep the patient's vomit and feces to facilitate doctors to confirm the diagnosis as soon as possible and timely treatment.