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What is food poisoning?

Updated: 11/10/2022
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Food poisoning is the consumption of contaminated food. There are two types of food poisoning: food infection, and food intoxication.

Food infection:

-The presence of bacteria or other microbes, which infect the body soon after consumption.

Food intoxication:

-The ingestion of toxic elements within the food (including exotoxins), which can happen even when the microbe that produced the toxin is either no longer present, or able to cause infection.

Symptoms usually begin shortly after consumption, though it can vary from several hours to days, and can include one or more of the following: nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache, or fatigue.

Food poisoning is one type of illness that occurs after eating contaminated food and drinking contaminated water. Food poisoning may causes of diarrhea & vomiting that is very critical sometimes for the peoples.

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