What is Salmonella Enteriditis? (Spelling?)?

Question

How does one get it? What are the symptoms and how can the frequency of outbreak be reduced?

Answer 1

Its a foecal oral human pathogen that gives you food poisoning. Symptoms - diarhoea and vomiting are the easy to spot ones. Reduce outbreaks by washing your hands after going to the loo!

Answer 2

Enteritis is inflammation of the intestines. Salmonella enteritis would be inflammation of the intestines caused by salmonella poisoning.

Google search: salmonella enteritis

http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/salmonellosis.htm

>About Salmonellosis

>General info about Salmonellosis

>Salmonella Enteritis is an infection caused by a bacteria called Salmonella that could have been present in the food that one had consumed. It is also called Salmonellosis. The symptoms which may range from abdominal pain to diarrhea are seen after 8 to 48 hours of eating food and the illness lasts for 1 to 2 weeks.

Answer 3

"Salmonella is one of the most common causes of food poisoningfood poisoning. The CDC estimates 40,000 people a year are infected with salmonella, with 600 deaths annually. In recent years, the number affected with salmonella has been decreasing.

Salmonella occurs after eating contaminated food, most commonly raw poultry, eggs, beef, and unwashed fruit and vegetables.

Cross-contamination is also a common cause of salmonella. This occurs when food comes in contact with surfaces, such as your kitchen counter, that have been exposed to raw meat.

Salmonella Symptoms

Salmonella symptoms begin anywhere from 12 hours to three days after eating contaminated food.

Symptoms include:

* Diarrhea
* Fever
* Abdominal cramps
* Headache
* Nausea
* Loss of appetite
* Vomiting

Fortunately, most salmonella infections resolve on their own within five to seven days. Antibiotics are occasionally needed for severe infections."

I nearly died from it when I was very little because I was so young when I got it. In order to try to not get it, be careful with your poultry. Have a separate cutting board for poultry, don't use that cutting board to cut vegetables on, especially when you've just used it to cut poultry. Make sure your poultry is cook all the way through. Fully cooked poultry should have an internal temp of about 170 degrees F. After handling poultry, wash your hands. Wash everything and disinfect everything that has touched the chicken in your kitchen (...or anything anywhere else in your house if for some reason you take your raw chicken out of the kitchen). In restaurants, just check to see if your chicken is cooked all the way through; this means that the poultry should be white all the way through (unless there is something else that is making the chicken pink other than it being underdone.), if you're concerned about the doneness of your meat, ask your server if the the meat is supposed to be that color (I work in a restaurant and we have a romano crusted chicken salad, and because of the romano the chicken is pink on the inside, so some dishes are just supposed to be that color).
In short, be careful, be smart.