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Bacterial Intoxication
This type of food
poisoning intoxication can occur when the food eaten is contaminated
with toxins (poison) or toxin producing bacteria.
Examples of bacteria
which produce toxins are:
- Staphylococcus aureus,
- Clostridium botulinum,
- Bacillus cereus (the most common found in
cooked rice)
- and many others.
The
bacteria multiply in the food and by-product of this multiplication
is toxin, the poison that causes illness.
The toxin producing bacteria
can multiply in the food or in the body and not all toxins are
destroyed by cooking.
The most common symptom od this intoxication is
vomiting. As toxin enters into human body system, the body realizes
that that is not good for it and vomits the poison out.
NOTE: Bacterial
intoxication will typically have shorter incubation period than
infection (with sudden onset), which usually only lasts one day and
fever is rarely present.
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BACTERIAL
INFECTION
This
type of food borne illness occur when the food
eaten is contaminated with living pathogenic bacteria.
The
amount and
type of bacteria will determine the time for symptoms to appear. The
bacteria will pass through your stomach and down into your lover
intestine. It will embed themselves in the wall of the intestine and it
will multiply.
Bacterial
infection most often cause diarrhea (sometimes
bloody), stomach cramps and fever. More
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