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Boiling of foods is one of the methods of preventing salmonellosis

Salmonella affects both humans and animals. In humans, the disease can cause more than 700 varieties of this bacterium. The disease can cause serious consequences: infectious-toxic shock, liver failure, acute heart failure, cerebral edema, pneumonia, urinary and bile duct infection.

When salmonellosis is disturbed, water-salt metabolism and assimilation of microelements, nutrients and vitamins are disrupted, the immune system weakens.

Salmonella is an infectious disease. Its causative agent is highly resistant to various changes in the external environment, to the effects of chemical and physical factors. In food, these sticks not only persist, but also multiply well. In water, this stick lasts up to 5 months, in the soil - up to 9 months, in indoor dust - up to six months, in dried feces - 4 years, in sausages - 2-4 months, frozen meat - 3-6 months, in eggs - 3 months, in milk - up to 20 days, in butter - 9 months, in cheese - up to a year, on frozen fruits and vegetables - up to 2.5 months. When frozen, salmonella remains viable for a long time. Smoking and salting can not kill salmonella, but they quickly die in products containing acetic acid, lemon juice. These bacteria die at a temperature of + 56 ° C in 1-3 minutes, and boiling instantly kills them. With prolonged storage of chicken eggs (more than a month in the refrigerator), salmonella penetrates through intact shell and multiply rapidly in the yolk. To "neutralize" such an egg, you need to cook it for at least 5-10 minutes. Before boiling eggs, they need to be washed with soap. Salmonella, present in meat, die during its cooking only for 3.5 hours (a piece weighing 400 grams and thickness of up to 9 cm). The hen should be cooked for at least an hour.

Ready meals should be heated for at least 10 minutes at 75 ° C.

Other measures to prevent salmonellosis

To prevent infection with salmonella,avoid eating raw eggs, homemade mayonnaise, in which they are included. It is not recommended to eat soft-boiled eggs, fried eggs, drink raw milk. The simplest and most effective way of preventing salmonellosis is thorough washing of hands, processing of cutting tools, especially after raw chicken, meat, egg products. You can not simultaneously process raw and cooked foods. To cut raw meat, fish, you need to use a separate knife and a separate cutting board. After use, they must be thoroughly rinsed and rinsed with boiling water. During the summer period it is necessary to avoid public catering in questionable establishments. To prevent infectious complications after operations on the organs of the gastrointestinal tract, patients need to take the drug "Alpha Normix", which prevents infection with salmonella and other microorganisms.