How to deal with food poisoning

Food poisoning is a very common problem. If you choose and match food randomly, food poisoning can easily occur. Therefore, when such a problem occurs, you must improve it in time, otherwise it will cause great damage to your body. So how to deal with food poisoning? When such a situation occurs, the patient will have obvious physical symptoms and should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.

So how to deal with food poisoning? There are some good methods, but not everyone can use these methods. We should pay attention to this point. The following is a detailed introduction to its treatment methods.

How to deal with food poisoning:

1. General treatment

Rest in bed. The early diet should be easily digestible liquid or semi-liquid diet. Normal diet can be resumed after the condition improves. Salmonella food poisoning should be isolated at the bedside.

2. Symptomatic treatment

For those with obvious vomiting and abdominal pain, propantheline (Propantheline) can be taken orally or atropine can be injected subcutaneously, or scopolamine can be injected. Those who can eat should be given oral rehydration fluids. For patients who suffer from severe vomiting and cannot eat or have frequent diarrhea, give intravenous drip of sugar and saline solution. If acidosis occurs, supplement with 5% sodium bicarbonate injection or 11.2% sodium lactate solution as appropriate. For those who are severely dehydrated or even in shock, fluid replacement should be actively carried out to maintain electrolyte balance and anti-shock treatment should be given.

3. Antimicrobial treatment

Antibiotics are generally not needed. For severe patients with high fever, antibacterial drugs can be selected according to different pathogens. For example, quinolone antibiotics can be used for Salmonella and Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

The above is a detailed introduction on how to deal with food poisoning. It is a good choice to deal with it according to the above method. However, after improving the food poisoning, the patient's body also needs a period of time to recover. The diet should be light, which will be of great help to the body's conditioning.