What to eat after poisoning
Everyone faced such a nuisance,as food poisoning. Nausea, diarrhea, fever ... But the body needs strength to recover, so you'll have to eat. The country of the Soviets will tell you what and how it is after poisoning.
What is food poisoning?
Food poisoning is an acute disorderstomach and intestines, resulting from eating poisonous or spoiled food and beverages. In the body, either pathogenic microbes multiplying in spoiled foods, or foodborne toxins-natural poisons of inedible plants and fungi, fertilizers and various chemicals-fall into the organism. This disrupts the normal process of digestion and harms internal organs. Food poisoning happens not only in children, but also in adults.
Important! Grown without the use of chemicals"organic" vegetables and fruits can also be poisoned. Organic fertilizers contain exactly the same chemical elements as in industrial fertilizers, but here it is impossible to calculate how many of them there are without special, very expensive analysis.
When is the doctor needed?
In severe cases of poisoning is very important in timegive first aid and go to the hospital. Most often, the effects of poisoning are 7-10 days and for this symptomatic treatment is sufficient at home. However, sometimes without the help of doctors can not do.
As soon as possible, you need to see a doctor in the following cases:
if in addition to the usual manifestations of the gastrointestinal disorder there were pains in the liver, kidneys, other internal organs
if the temperature rises and the head hurts
if the child is poisoned, an elderly person or a pregnant woman
if you suspect that you are poisoned by mushrooms or canned food
if there are signs of botulism
if severe diarrhea and vomiting persist for 2 days
if there is blood in diarrhea or vomiting, even the smallest amount
if signs of poisoning still have not gone through the week
How to avoid poisoning?
Uneaten meat or fish, raw eggs,poor-quality dairy products - everything can lead to food poisoning. Therefore, always take good care of food, well fry meat and fish. Also, do not eat canned food or dairy products, in freshness of which you are not sure. Any food that has lain in the heat for more than 2 hours, becomes infected with pathogenic microbes. Believe me, you can have a lot of problems with digestion after using stale foods.
Observe a few simple rules that will help you avoid poisoning:
Do not use stale, spoiled food for food.
Thoroughly wash not only fruits and vegetables, but also other foods - meat, fish, poultry, eggs.
Pay attention also to the water you use for drinking, for cooking food and ice, for washing food, dishes and hands.
Hands also do not forget to wash more often - not only after visiting the toilet, but also every time before you touch food.
Do not use unfamiliar mushrooms and plants.
Do not eat or even collect mushrooms on the roadside and near industrial plants.
Never eat homemade blanks that have swollen, leaking or rusted covers, air bubbles or foam in cans, discolored color or other signs of corruption.
Do not eat foods of dubious origin, cooked in conditions far from hygienic requirements.
Avoid the use of those parts of plants inwhich accumulate the most chemicals - cabbage stalks, the tops of Bulgarian pepper, tails of carrots and beets, apple and cucumber peel, petioles of leafy greens.
Important! The most common source of poisoning aresuch products: boiled sausage, eggs, pates, cottage cheese, glazed curds, homemade mayonnaise, salads with sour cream, cakes and cakes with cream, nitrate-overfed potatoes, soybean and wheat sprouts. Respect for the freshness of these products as closely as possible.
How should I eat after poisoning?
After poisoning, all the forces of the body go,to recover and cleanse of pathogenic bacteria. Naturally, the body will not spend its energy on digesting ordinary food. Therefore, the diet for poisoning should be very gentle. Eat what is most easily digested - all kinds of mashed potatoes, slimy soups, ground meat, cooked and steamed dishes. Avoid fried and spicy. Salt the food slightly stronger than usual, and best of all with sea salt - when poisoning the body is deprived of a very large number of salts.
Drink as much as possible. With vomiting and diarrhea, the body loses a lot of fluid, after poisoning you are threatened with dehydration. Your well-being will directly depend on how quickly you can compensate for the loss and re-energize the cells with the proper amount of water.
Do not eat only a couple of times a day, completelyeating - the food should be fractional, 6-8 times a day. Food intake should be limited. Return to the normal diet, you can then, when you yourself feel that the stomach is no longer irritated.
On a note! Since the digestive system is rather weakafter poisoning, you can use probiotics, which will help beneficial bacteria to recover in the gastrointestinal tract. In pharmacies, you can find various drugs that will help you. In the first 2 days, use sorbents, the most famous of them - activated charcoal. Later, you will need drugs to restore the intestinal microflora, for example, hilak-forte, mezim. But do not use antibiotics and pain medications.
What can and can not eat after poisoning?
Set up digestion after poisoning will help certain foods that should definitely be included in your diet.
Food on the day of poisoning
The amount of food should be minimal, the bestoption will generally abstain from food on this day. If it's hard for you to do this, eat a few homemade croutons from dried white bread in the oven.
Attention! There is rye bread and baking after poisoning is notit costs at least a week, and on the day of poisoning it is absolutely impossible. Today, your stomach can only digest the simplest, well-dried white bread.
Water should be drunk as often as possible. Also, you can drink black tea with one spoonful of sugar on a glass or without sugar at all. If possible, prepare a rice decoction, this is an excellent remedy for diarrhea, which will simultaneously give your body fluid and relieve you of hunger.
Rice broth from diarrhea
Ingredients:
water - 0.5 liters
rice - 1 dessert spoon (1.5 tsp)
Preparation and reception:
Let the water boil and add rice to it.
Cook the rice for 50 minutes.
Strain the broth through 2 layers of gauze and allow it to cool to room temperature.
Drink a rice broth for a quarter of a glass every 2 hours during the first day after poisoning.
Meal on the day after poisoning
The day after the poisoning day you should alreadyto become a little easier, so you can and should start eating. The lightest dish that you can safely digest is a semi-liquid mashed potatoes on the water. Prepare it is very simple: boil the peeled potatoes in salted water, and then rasstolkite in puree with the same water in which it was cooked - no butter, no eggs, much less milk to add to this puree should not be.
If your body has safely takenmashed potatoes, you can cook a liquid porridge on the water: manna, rice or buckwheat. By evening you can also try low-fat chicken broth, if you are sure of the good quality of the chicken, from which it is cooked.
Continue drinking a lot. Also continue to drink rice decoction. Do not forget about salt. But you can not eat much sugar yet: more than 1 spoonful of sugar per glass of tea do not add.
Important! Do not try the next day after the poisoning daycertainly try all the dishes that you are allowed. It is best if you limit yourself to two courses a day: mashed potatoes and broth, or mashed potatoes and porridge, or semolina porridge on water and broth. Eat often, but slightly: start with a couple spoons, gradually increasing portions in the evening. And more than one dish in one meal is also not worth it.
Food on the third and fourth day after poisoning
Starting from the third day after poisoning, food can already be diversified.
You need protein. To begin with, you can eat a little boiled chicken meat. If you want, you can make steamed burgers. You can also eat a light omelet cooked without milk.
For cereals, you can now also use oat flakes. But still the porridge should be welded exclusively on water, and no oil should be added to it.
It is very important to prepare light meals that will be fully absorbed by the body and do not overload the digestive system. Pay attention to the various dishes with rice.
Important! Although your food is already quite varied and you can access almost all light meals, these two days still have to adhere to the rule: "one meal at a time."
Nutrition within 2 weeks after poisoning
What is after the poisoning in the first two weeks,to fully digestion? To dishes that you can cook yourself, include soups with cereals and borscht of sauerkraut or cabbage. At the moment, the body lacks amino acids, so it is recommended to eat pea puree, which is very easy to digest. Pea puree can be consumed with canned mushrooms, sea and sauerkraut, fish. Bread eat until only dried.
Complete recovery after poisoning lastslong enough, so within two weeks should limit the amount of meat consumed. However, completely to refuse meat in any case it is impossible. Your body received a very strong stress, and it needs irreplaceable substances, which can only be obtained with animal proteins. It is best if you eat a meat dish 2 times a day - at lunch and in the evening, but here's the size of it should be about half your usual portion.
Important! Even if it seems to you that everything is over, becausethe symptoms of the gastrointestinal disorder have safely passed, the long-term effects of poisoning can still disrupt the functioning of the organs of your digestive system. Therefore, the food should remain as gentle as possible. Avoid any fried foods, eat boiled and steamed. Refuse until the products that are digested with difficulty.
Foods that should be excluded from the diet for 2 weeks after poisoning
It is important to know what should be excluded from yourdiet in the first couple of weeks after poisoning. Coffee, juices and jelly are inadmissible. Also, chocolate, carbonated water, canned food, fatty, salty, spicy, fried foods and alcohol should be completely excluded. It is desirable to refuse milk and fermented milk products. Raw vegetables are also not recommended. Replace them with cooked.
Also after poisoning, one can not eat fruit. Pears, plums and grapes should be completely excluded. Only citrus fruits can be eaten already on the 3-4th day after poisoning, but in very small quantities. But apples can be included in your diet, but only baked or pickled.
