salmonella question?

Question

I had salmonella about two months ago and I have been trying to figure out where I picked it up. I couldn't think of anything specific. I do have a freshwater aquarium with guppies in it. Can you get salmonella from that?

Answer 1

Most persons infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and abdominal cramps 6 to 72 hours after infection. In most cases, the illness usually lasts 3 to 7 days.

It is usually contracted by ingesting raw or undercooked eggs, or from animals such as chickens, cows and reptiles.

So you should think of what you ate 6 to 72 hours before your simptoms.

Rarer types of salmonellosis are contracted by direct contact with the faeces of an infected person. Yuck! Always wash your hands!

So your fish won´t give you the disease even if you ate them.

Answer 2

Disease-causing salmonellae have recently been re-classified into a single species, Salmonella enterica, which has numerous serovars. Salmonella Typhi is a well known serovar that causes typhoid fever. Other salmonellae are frequent causes of foodborne illness, and can especially be caught from poultry and raw eggs and more generally from food that has been cooked or frozen, and not eaten straight away. It can also be caught by handling reptiles, such as iguanas or terrapins, which commonly host the Salmonella bacteria. In March 2006, The New York Times reported that the U.S. government said that 16.3% of all chickens were contaminated with salmonella. In the mid to late 20th century, Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis was a common contaminant of eggs. This is much less common now with the advent of hygiene measures in egg production and the vaccination of laying hens to prevent salmonella colonisation. Many different salmonella serovars also cause severe diseases in animals other than human beings.

After bacterial infections, reactive arthritis (aka Reiters Syndrome) can develop.

In sickle-cell anemia, osteomyelitis due to Salmonella infection is much more common than in the general population.

Answer 3

I am unaware of guppies as a vector for salmonella, but turtle, hampsters, mice, lizards, eggs, dairy, and a whole bunch of other things can cause it.
How did you know exactly it was salmonella? Most likely you ingested something contaminated.

Answer 4

have confidence me, you do no longer opt to come back down with Salmonellaosis. It does no longer be exciting and a maximum cancers affected person ought to die because of the fact they have a weakened immune device because it is. i've got on no account heard they have been gazing salmonella as a maximum cancers scientific care. notwithstanding, normally whilst micro organism or viruses are used to make drugs or vaccinations, purely areas or components produced with tips from those bugs are used for the certainly medicine. i do no longer think of that a maximum cancers scientific care might contain getting foodstuff poisoning.

Answer 5

Check out this page on Wikipedia, you can see that things like orange juice, milk, and bean sprouts vectored salmonella.

Answer 6

No. Salmonella is from undercooked poultry or eggs. Or from cross contamination of other foods from uncooked poultry. Wash your hands and surfaces thoroughly after handling raw poultry.

Answer 7

Yes. You didn't eat out or eat anything that you might have mishandled (kept out in room temp--even at various short durations of time, which brought up the temp of food to encourage growth? It can even be harbored in vegetables and rice...cross contamination)?

Answer 8

i know you can get sick from eating raw fish, but i'm not sure if it's salmonella. i only know that salmonella is from undercooked chicken and raw eggs.

Answer 9

Yes you can. My brother did. Here is more info.

http://www.great-lakes.org/8-12-02.html#nz5

Answer 10

I had it years ago and it was caused because chicken was bad.