Food poisoning can be long-term problem

[Guest guest]

This is an interesting article.

 

Food poisoning can be long-term problem.

 

It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other

foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or

years after patients survived that initial bout.

 

Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.

 

What they've spotted so far is troubling. In interviews with The Associated

Press, they described high blood pressure, kidney damage, even full kidney

failure striking 10 to 20 years later in people who survived severe E. coli

infection as children, arthritis after a bout of salmonella or shigella, and

a mysterious paralysis that can attack people who just had mild symptoms of

campylobacter.

 

" Folks often assume once you're over the acute illness, that's it, you're

back to normal and that's the end of it, " said Dr. Robert Tauxe of the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The long-term consequences are

" an important but relatively poorly documented, poorly studied area of

foodborne illness. "

 

To read the whole article to it.

 

http://news./s/ap/20080121/ap_on_he_me/healthbeat_food_poisoning

 

 

 

Judy

[Guest guest]

Thanks Judy. I will pass this around.

Donna

 

wwjd <jtwigg wrote:

This is an interesting article.

 

Food poisoning can be long-term problem.

 

It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other

foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or

years after patients survived that initial bout.

 

Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.

 

What they've spotted so far is troubling. In interviews with The Associated

Press, they described high blood pressure, kidney damage, even full kidney

failure striking 10 to 20 years later in people who survived severe E. coli

infection as children, arthritis after a bout of salmonella or shigella, and

a mysterious paralysis that can attack people who just had mild symptoms of

campylobacter.

 

" Folks often assume once you're over the acute illness, that's it, you're

back to normal and that's the end of it, " said Dr. Robert Tauxe of the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The long-term consequences are

" an important but relatively poorly documented, poorly studied area of

foodborne illness. "

 

To read the whole article to it.

 

http://news./s/ap/20080121/ap_on_he_me/healthbeat_food_poisoning

 

Judy

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Source: Dalai Lama

 

 

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