Food Poisoning Case Study

A patient comes in the emergency room not feeling well. They are complaining of abdominal pain. The doctor immediately begins to perform the assessment on the patient by asking the proper questions. The patient answers them promptly. The patient has not been out of the country or came in contact with anyone that has Ebola. They have not been doing any strenuous activity of any kind. So then the doctor asks if the patient had eaten anything out of the ordinary. The patient informs the doctor that the only thing they had eaten was some baked beans and potato salad, the weekend at the family reunion. The doctor immediately realizes that the patient is demonstrating signs of food poisoning. Now the question is what kind of bacteria caused the food poisoning and what the doctor is going to use to treat it since the patient is allergic to every know kind of antibiotics. Food poisoning is an illness

coli was first identified in 1975 but it was not until 1982 that the Center of Disease Control and Prevention knew what caused it. There are several different strains of E. coli. The one that I am going to focus on is Escherichia coli 0157:H7. This certain strain of E. coli is found in the intestines of cows. For every ten thousand people ate least three are affected. Which means that one percent of food poisoning cases is caused by E. coli. It is normally transmitted through food made from the animal itself. Things like raw milk or rare ground beef. E. coli symptoms appear slower than those of food-borne bacteria. The reason why is that the toxins of E. coli are produced in the large intestine. So you will start exhibiting symptoms normally in three days. You will have the cramps and diarrhea but after twenty-four hours’ blood may start to appear in your stool. This should last one to eight day. In some cases, E. coli victims can develop hemolytic- uremic syndrome, which will cause your kidneys to fail and then you will have to receive dialysis the rest of your