The causes of food poisoning vary by classifying how fast the symptoms begin after eating what could be contaminated food; you can look at this as the developing time from when food enters the body and when the symptoms begin.

Short developing period; chemical causes – scombroid poisoning usually due to poorly cooked or stored fish and the affected person will experience, flushing, itching, shortness of breath and difficulty swallowing within one to two hours of eating; ciguatera poisoning is another fish toxin that occurs after eating fish such as grouper, snapper and barracuda, symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea, muscle aches and neurologic complaints like headaches, numbness and tingling, hallucinations and ataxia (difficulty with balance); mushroom ingestions can cause initial symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea, however, eating amanita mushrooms can cause liver and kidney failure leading to death.

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Food poisoning causes abdominal cramps, vomiting and diarrhea which can cause an important amount of fluid loss from being nauseous and when vomiting, so much that it can be difficult to replace that fluid, and when it becomes difficult to replace the fluids it will lead to dehydration.

Are the stomach flu and food poisoning the same thing? Many people wonder, but this may or may not be, because it depends if the bug is transmitted by contaminated food or if the bug is transmitted by non food mechanisms, such as body secretions, but most health care professionals will say that the stomach flu is equal to viral gastroenteritis.  If a lot of people get the stomach flu through eating, then it would certainly be considered food poisoning.

If the vomiting and diarrhea are associated with one of the following symptoms, then it would be a good time to consult a doctor and those symptoms entails fever, blood in the stool, signs of dehydration including lightheadedness when standing, weakness, decreased urination, diarrhea that lasts longer than seventy two hours and troublesome vomiting that does not allow you to hydrate yourself, for example, when trying to drink a glass of water.

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There he is! Fleshless bones, all alone, no stamina, afraid
and ashamed to see the light, unable to deal with the trials and tribulations
that life is dealing him. He is hiding
in the dark, behind the closed door, exiting once in a while trying to fill the
holes, the empty spaces with substances. He is denying his growth, “It can
wait!” he says, “tomorrow! Yes tomorrow, I’ll leave the closet” but tomorrow
never comes because the feeling is so good and unaware that his surroundings
are caving in as he continues to fill the empty spaces, but there are more
empty spaces now than before so tolerance sets in and before he know it, he has
become a victim of addiction.

This skeleton in the closet’s pathway is leading to
addiction. There are three causes why many
people use a substance of some sort; “to feel good”, “to feel better” and “curiosity”,
also a fourth could be added and that is to “do better”. Although
there is no one particular cause that could determine addiction, there are some
causes that could contribute to addiction.
The psychological factor of a person’s biological make up such as
gender, ethnicity, developing stages and environment can be contributions. The
highest risk factor is on people who have a mental disorder; they are more
prone to becoming addicted than the general population.

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