Home Remedies for Food Poisoning
Inner linings of stomach and intestine swells after eating contaminated food. At the beginning of food poisoning, a person feels abdominal pains and nausea, which continued into weakness, vomiting, and diarrhea. Sometimes severe poisoning leads to discharge of blood and mucus in the stool. If food poisoning is not controlled, then body can dehydrate in a large extent and the patient may becomes unconscious.
Food contaminates due to toxins and bacterial action. Self-care at home can prevent and cure the food poisoning. These days most of the people prefer home remedies rather than medicines or drugs.
Benefits of home remedies
- No side effects
- Easily available
- Long term good effect
Home remedies
There are some tips, which will help you to avoid and control food poisoning. Using these tips, you can keep you and your family members away from food poisoning.
- Until vomiting and diarrhea stops do not give any solid food to the patient
- Give hot drinks like rice water and tea. Strictly avoid alcohol and coffee
- You can apply mild heat on the stomach. It will minimize stomach pain and vomiting
- Personal hygiene
- Keep clean utensils used for cooking, cooking place and dishcloths. It will avoid food poisoning
- Avoid uncooked food. Mostly food from animal source like meat, poultry, eggs and sea food need to be cooked very well, otherwise it can lead to food poisoning
- Always eat freshly prepared food. Eat food before two hours of preparation because bacterial growth starts after two hours at the room temperature.
- Avoid fried food from outside
- Keep your refrigerator neat and clean. Adjust temperature below two or three because above five degree Celsius bacteria can grow very easily.
- Milk products are easily attacked by the bacteria, therefore never store them for more than a day
- Before eating preserved food from outside always check date of packing and seal of the container
- For cutting vegetables and fruit use non-rusted knife. After use, wash it neatly
- After cooking keep your food items in refrigerator before two hours
- Avoid eating bad smelling food
- Drink lot of fluids to balance fluid level in the body
- After having food rub, mixture of Soya oil (one cup) and garlic oil (three drops). This oil will give you relief from abdominal pain.
- For digestion of food, drink tea made from ginger. It will keep you away from indigestion, nausea and heartburn
- Most of the people face problem of indigestion of acid. To prevent acid indigestion you can drink one-cup of hot water added with one tablespoon of lemon juice. Just before a meal drink this water; it will solve the problem of acid indigestion.
- Vitamin C is required to strengthen immune system. A person with strong immune system hardly faces any health related problem. Take one-tablespoon mixture of lemon pest and salt two to three times in a day. It will solve problems related to digestion, and resistance power of to immune system.
- Food poisoning at initial level can be cured by drinking a cup of buttermilk with half spoon powder of ginger
- Eat inner thin linings of pomegranate fruit or drink pomegranate juice it gives relief from food poisoning.
- Eat mixture of five or six leaves of basil, two-three black pepper, sea salt, and curd of three tablespoon four times in a day. This is the best remedy for food poisoning.
