All You Need to Know about Symptoms of Food Poisoning

April 9, 2010 by uttoransen  
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Food poisoning is an acute state of emergency occurs after consumption of contaminated food. The symptoms of food poisoning generally occur 6 hours to 7 days after taking any food contaminated with bacteria or viruses. Depending upon the contaminant, the symptoms vary. This is a very common disease and affects 1 out of five people every year. According to CDC, there are 76 million food poisoning cases every year of which 325,000 patients require hospitalization and there are approximately 5000 deaths in a year.

The Symptoms of Dehydration

January 17, 2010 by uttoransen  
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Dehydration has a number of varied of symptoms. These are as varied as they are numbered. There is no standard case of dehydration symptoms but there is a long list of various symptoms that have been observed. The list includes acidosis, waste from the body that gets collected which is not or does not get or shock. The main cause of dehydration though is the loss of water or liquid intake.