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Groan! What's good home treatment for food poisoning??


Question: Rotten Chinese Takeaway!!

It's morning now... had Chinese for dinner... I feel really nauseous and my gut keeps getting stabbing pains (and diarrhoea). I wish I could vomit, but it doesn't do any good (to late for that, I think).

I feel really shaky, and I woke up having a panic attack (hyperventilating and feeling overwhelmed)... I'm stressed from studying (just had the flu) and my two babies woke me up about 8 times last night, and I couldn't cope.

What should I do to recover quicker!?
Answers: Oh, poor you.
If it was an allergic reaction, I wonder if anti-hystamine might help?
But I don't know, hon, and I think really you should ring either a doctor or a nutritionist and get advice from someone who knows what s/he's talking about.
Hope you feel better soon.
XX
For immediate relief , go to the doctor and get some anti biotic for the infection. Later on, be more sensible in what you eat- rice and dhal, chappati, and the probiotic - curd/buttermilk. Eat light at night.
Next time try to throw up right away, it's better that way! Time and Tums is your only answer now. Rest if you can!
HOME REMEDIES: FOOD POISONING

* Keep the patient in bed and give nothing by mouth as long as the nausea and vomiting persist.
* As the vomiting subsides, give sips of some warm drink, such as tea, barley or rice water.
* Gentle heat may be applied to the stomach to relieve spasm or pain and also the tendency to vomit.
* Wash your hands before preparing food to avoid passing on bacteria such as staphylococcus (commonly found on the skin and in the throat) or shigella (passed from fecal matter). Wash again after handling raw meat and eggs.
* Don't eat raw protein food like fish, fowl, meat, milk, or eggs. Avoid sushi, oysters on the half shell, Caesar salad made with raw eggs, and unpasteurized eggnog. Don't use cracked eggs.
* Don't taste test the raw pork sausage stew, the fish chowder, or even the cookie batter before it's done.
* Don't let raw meat juice drip onto other food. It can taint otherwise harmless food.
* Don't leave food at room temperature for more than two hours, and avoid eating anything that you suspect may have been unrefrigerated for that long.
* Don't taste any food that doesn't smell or look right.
* Drink fluids as much you can to combat the loss of fluids.
* Scrub counters with warm, soapy water and bleach to combat countertop bacteria.
* Use a plastic cutting board instead of a wooden one. Be sure to thoroughly clean the cutting board after you've finished using it.
* Avoid foods that are fried, smoked or salty as well as raw vegetables, pastries, preserves, candies, alcohol and spices and condiments.
* Mix a tablespoon of lemon juice or cider vinegar in a cup of hot water before a meal to prevent acid indigestion.
* Add three drops of garlic oil to half a cup of Soya oil and rub onto the stomach after food.
* Drink a herbal tea of mint, raspberry, chamomile and blackberry.
* Drink one cup of ginger tea after meals to promote a good digestion and for heartburn, nausea, etc.
* Cooking utensils and plates, as well as sponges and dishcloths that were used in the food preparation process, should also be cleaned appropriately.
* Grind a lemon along with seeds and make a paste. Add some salt. Take 1 tsp of this paste 2-3 times.
* Drink 1/2 tsp of dry ginger (saunth powder in 1 cup buttermilk (chhachh) 3 - 4 times a day.
* Chew a few pieces of the inner lining of pomegranate with salt, and/or drink pomegranate juice.
* Prepare a mixture by ading 1 Tbsp poppy seeds, 1 tsp edible gum, 1 tsp cardamom powder, 1/2 tsp nutmeg (jaiphal) powder, and2 tbs sugar, and grind to a powder. Take this powder every 2 hours.
* Prepare a mixture by adding 1/2 tsp lemon juice, 1/2 tsp ginger juice, and 1/4 tsp pepper powder and drink it.
* Mix 5-6 chopped basil (tulsi) leaves, 1/4 tsp sea salt, and some black pepper in 3 Tbsp of curd, and eat it. Repeat this 4 times a day for one week.
* Roast 1/2 tsp cumin (jeera) seeds and 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds (dana methi). Mix and powder it, add to 4 tsp of yogurt (curd). Take thrice a day.
* Grate one raw papaya. Add 3 cups water, boil for 10 mins, strain and finish the water in one day.
Charcoal capsules are an excellent first aid against food poisoning. The charcoal absorbs the poison.

Good luck and be well.

Kelley
Drink lemon juice in hot water with little salt and pepper in it. Keep drinking half cup every one hour till you recover.
If you can, drink a tablespoon on aple cider vinegar in a glass of warm water.

Organic unfiltered is best but any will do. it will kill the bacteria making you sick and help to settle the stomach. It really is a good remedy but takes a little getting used to.

Lemon juice is a good backup.
I would eat only plain crackers, like saltines and drink 7up. Try and take it easy.

Good Luck.

Sincerely,

Angelique


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