EESA10H3 Lecture : Illin'
6 Apr 2011
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Lec 8: most dangerous foods= starch and dairy. Symptoms of foodborne illness: all illness are gastrointestinal diseases. Prevention of foodborne illness: starts in supermarkets in buying the food, use different cutting boards for meat and vegetables. Left overs must be discarded within 3 days in the fridge but could be kept longer in the freezer. Bacteria: e coli: some vegetables can also be contaminated with e coli. Lives in soil in dormant stage: when it comes to the body it realses toxin and the toxin causes the illness, potential sources, canned foods, home canned fish. Main kinds of botulism: foodborne botulism, wound botulism, - common in heroin addicts. Infant botulism: consume soil www. notesolution. com, kids ingest the spores and this results in this disease. Symptoms of foodborne botulism: symptoms are nerve related, mostly paralysis of some part of the human body, constipation, complete paralysis, respiratory failure; last step, botulism: there are anti toxins for botulism- reduce severity of symptoms.
