What causes ecoli?

Answer 1

E. coli is one common type of bacteria. It is short for the medical term Escherichia coli (say: esh-er-ick-ee-eh cole-eye), which normally lives inside your intestines, where it helps your body break down and digest the food you eat.

Unfortunately, when the E. coli moves from your intestines, where it's needed, and finds its way into other parts of your body (where it is not supposed to be), you can get sick.

Also, there are different types of E. coli. Most of them are OK if they are in your digestive system - after all, that is the place they normally call home. However, other types, or strains, of E. coli can make you sick, even when they enter your intestines. You may get a fever, vomit, or have diarrhea, and generally get pretty sick if you come in contact with the wrong strains of E. coli - even if they enter the "right" place.

Answer 2

When you cut raw chicken on a counter top, then you forget to clean it up with bleach. Then you decide you wanted to have a salad so you cut up lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and since you did not clean up from your bloody chicken! DADA you are sick with ecoli!

Answer 3

It's a bacterium that lives in the gastro-intestinal tracts of many animals (including us).

When the bacteria in your GI tract are in balance, everything is good. When you ingest certain strains of E. Coli, though (through fecal contamination of food, typically), it can make you very sick ... and antibiotics actually make it worse (because they kill off the good bacteria).

There's plenty of info at the link below:

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

E Coli is a bacteria. It can cause digestive type problems

Answer 5

Spinach. Kids: don't eat any more vegetables, ever.