Do you also complain of stomach cramps, nausea, or vomiting after eating food? If you must have noticed, then you may feel such cramps after eating outside. If yes, this has happened to you too, then you may be a victim of food poisoning. This is an annoying condition that can happen after eating a nice spicy meal. According to health experts, this happens when you have eaten stale food for a long time or it also happens when you have not eaten anything for a long time. And you have got an acidity problem. According to MAMC 'Journal of Medical Sciences', bad-stale food or drinking water is responsible for about two million deaths every year in India.
Food poisoning and vomiting
Dr. Bhattad said that food poisoning usually starts with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and loose motion. Stomach pain starts within a few hours of eating this stale food or bad food. Sometimes you may also experience fever if the cause is due to an infectious agent like a virus or bacteria. In that case, the symptoms can be more severe. Excessive vomiting and upset stomach can be due to dehydration. Symptoms of dehydration are dry mouth, loss of appetite and dizziness may also occur.
To avoid dehydration during food poisoning, you have to do this:
To avoid dehydration, you have to drink more and more water like juice, water, and Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS).
Get plenty of rest don't let yourself get tired
Abstaining from spicy and oily food. Instead of eating curd, rice, khichdi, and curry. stick to things like toast or bananas
If severe abdominal pain and diarrhea are not stopping then you should take some medicines
Antibiotic medicine can be given to prevent diarrhea due to excessive diarrhea.
Antibiotics can be given even if there is a fever.
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