Understand foodborne diseases and prevent food safety issues

What is foodborne disease? my country's Food Safety Law stipulates that foodborne diseases refer to infectious and toxic diseases caused by pathogenic factors in food entering the human body. There are more than 250 known foodborne diseases in the world, most of which are caused by bacteria, followed by viruses and parasites, and also include chemical food poisoning, foodborne intestinal infectious diseases, etc. There are many types.

The main problems in life are food poisoning and food allergies.

1. Food poisoning: refers to a non-infectious acute or subacute disease that occurs after ingesting biological or chemical toxic and harmful substances or ingesting toxic and harmful substances as food.

1. Bacterial food poisoning is the most common, accounting for about half of all cases. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Common bacteria include Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Escherichia coli, etc.

Prevention measures for bacterial food poisoning: maintain good personal hygiene and wash hands before and after meals; strengthen the testing of food raw materials to prevent contaminated raw materials from indirectly contaminating food; keep raw and cooked food separate during processing to avoid cross contamination; pay attention to keeping food in the cold and do not keep it for too long to avoid the production of toxins.

2. Poisoning by poisonous animals

Some poisonous animals such as poisonous fish and shellfish contain toxic substances, such as pufferfish poisoning and shellfish poisoning.

3. Plant-based food poisoning

Common poisonous mushrooms and sprouted potatoes cause poisoning because they contain solanine, Datura poisoning, and ginkgo poisoning because they contain gingkodiol.

4. Chemical food poisoning

Nitrite, organophosphorus pesticides, and arsenic poisoning.

2. Food Allergies

It is an adverse reaction people have to food. There are 8 main types of food that cause food allergies, including milk, eggs, fish, crustaceans, peanuts, soybeans, nuts and wheat.

Common clinical symptoms of allergies: urticaria, dermatitis herpetiformis, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and severe cases may lead to anaphylactic shock.

Prevention and treatment:

1. Specific immunotherapy is actually a desensitization therapy, which involves injecting small doses of allergens into the human body for a long time.

2. Non-specific immunotherapy: In food allergy reactions, cytokines play a very important role in signal transduction, cutting off signal transduction.

3. Natural therapy: Chinese herbal medicine therapy, acupuncture therapy, etc.

In traditional Chinese medicine, allergy is a reaction of the body, which is actually a fight against pathogens. We need to strengthen our own resistance.