Salmonellosis

[longgone]

I have read in the newspaper today that in one of our supermarkets
people got salad infected with salmonella. I am so scared now even
though I never buy things like that, but that's the same supermarket I
buy my products too. Anyway, I wanted to ask you a feq questions:



1. What products besides meat and eggs can also be infected with salmonella?

2. What products would you consider totally safe? What about yogurts? Fruit? Bread?

3. Do you think it's very common to v* from it not only have d*?

4. Is it possible to get salmonellosis from smeone's who is sick
saliva? I mean from kissing? Or is it also like with those noroviruses?



I am so scared to buy things now, I am not sure what I can buy and feel absolutely safe[img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]



Thanks

Edited by: longgone

[rubysoho120]

1. It can be in anything because anythnig could have gotten
contaminated, but mst likely their wont be most of the products from
the same source, and if you cook it you will be fine.

2. I think bread, crackers, prepackage stuff is pretty safe. Yogurt and fruit could have it in or on it.

3. i dont know if you could not v* from it, but i would assume that if
you only got a little bit in you and you were a little sick you
wouldn't v*. Just like a sv...it depends on the potency of the bacteria.

4. I think it possible to get it from someones saliva because it is a bacteria and saliva is warm and most and may help it grow.



Don't worry to much. Wash things well and cook them and you should be fine. Jus dont eat teh salad

[kentuckygalrk]

I think all bagged veggies are dodgy! We actually justhad alarge e-colioutbreak here in the United States that was linked to bagged spinach.


As for salmonella;


1)Dairy, meat and poultry products are the most common places for salmonella to grow,however,fresh rawvegetables and fruits as well as other foods can be infected as well.


2) The only product that issafe is the product that is handled properly, cooked thoroughly, and washed well.Don'teat undercooked meat and do not use contaminated utensils when handling cooked meat (this is what the person cooking my brother's chicken did... he didn'tthink about it until it was too late). Scrub your vegetables and fruits and don't buy bagged veggies.Breads and yogurts should be fine.


3)*Warning: Possibly graphic* I think that vomiting depends on the severityand type. My brother got the poisioning from thecontamination of raw chicken. He was sick withinhours of eating and was ill non-stop until he wasvomiting blood, he was taken to the emergency room at a very reknowned hospital here in the stateswhere they said they hadn't seen a case like his in years. They gave him a shot and rehydrated him and he was weak for several days but ok.
We still aren't sure where my cousin got salmonella from becauseshe ate raw veggies, meat, etc...at my cousin's wedding reception3 nights before (no one else was ill) and at a steakhouse the night before. She sufferedsevere cramps and diarreah for an entire week and wasn't feeling proper for weeks, butdidn't vomit (exceptfor when her mom made her swallowsome medicine for strep... which it wasn't)


4) Salmonella is spread via the fecal/oral route (or either through the vomit or the feces)... not the saliva unless a person has just vomited. When my cousin was ill and I was babysitting for her, her mother said that we were to stay out of the bathroom that she used until it was disinfected and that we had to wash our hands regularly etc... She also had my cousin wash her hands in the bathroom and then after she came out of the bathroom too. It was pitiful, but of course she didn't spread it to anyone else.