If poisonous substances enter the body, then a painful condition occurs, which is called poisoning. I must say that among all types of poisoning, food occupy only a small part, about 1%. Food poisoning can be characterized by the most acute condition of the body, which can appear as a result of ingestion of a stale product.
The most common is food poisoning, the types of which are associated with poisoning when consuming wild poisonous plants, poisonous mushrooms, conditionally edible mushrooms that were subjected to improper heat treatment, as well as stale and expired foods. Quite often alcohol poisoning occurs.
Poisoning of bacterial origin can be divided into intoxication and toxic infections. Botulism, intoxication with staphylococci, are usually referred to the first type. The second type includes salmonellosis, as well as those diseases that cause E. coli.
From the moment of eating unsuitable or expired foods, food poisoning develops. Symptoms of it are usually the following: long and painful vomiting and nausea, severe diarrhea, which with such poisoning is usually watery, and in its composition there are pieces of the food that did not have time to digest. All this can last a day or three, after which it gradually disappears. However, abdominal pain and general weakness may remain.
After the first signs of food poisoning, it is recommended to immediately rinse the stomach with a solution of baking soda, or ordinary warm water. Do this until clean water appears. Until the signs of poisoning disappear completely, the patient should drink at least 3 liters of slightly salted liquid per day. By the way, in addition to salt, baking soda can be added to the liquid at the rate of 1 teaspoon per liter of water and sugar (2 teaspoons per liter).
After eating poisonous herbs or mushrooms, poisoning also develops. Symptoms of the following nature: there is a lack of saliva in the mouth, which causes dryness, the skin of the face turns red, sometimes a person may experience clouding of consciousness and even visual and auditory hallucinations. The heart beats quite often, but first the breathing quickens, and then it becomes very difficult for the patient to breathe. If you do not take any measures to provide assistance, then death can occur within 24 hours.
Very often, those people who do not know the measures in the use of alcohol also have alcohol poisoning. Its symptoms are a cross between the symptoms of poisoning by poisonous plants and bad foods. Those. a person initially experiences a strong excitement, but after a while his face turns very pale, the person becomes ill and even loss of consciousness is possible. In this case, you can help by washing the stomach, after which the patient should be overlaid with heaters and give him a plentiful, but hot drink such as coffee or strong tea.
Another type of poisoning is poisoning with chemical elements. In particular, manganese. In general, manganese is a very important element for our body and is present in almost all its organs and tissues. If the body lacks manganese, then the functioning of the reproductive and nervous systems may be impaired, memory will deteriorate, etc.
However, an excess of manganese in the body also does not lead to anything good. As a rule, manganese poisoning is quite common in those people who are engaged in ore mining or are engaged in chemical production processes, i.e. galvanic production, welding, etc. Therefore, manganese can also cause poisoning. Symptoms of it are: severe weakness in the body, pain in the lower back or limbs, drowsiness, frequent pain in the temporal bone, dysuria, insomnia, sexual weakness, tearing from the eyes.