Prime Minister of Thailand battled diarrhea

Yingluck Shinawatra was forced to interrupt their work activities for an indefinite period. Last Tuesday, a female politician to a hospital Rama IX. "She has diarrhea associated with food poisoning," - commented on the situation to journalists, government spokesman Titima Chaisang.

August 5, 2011 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra became the first woman elected to the Thai Prime Minister. During her election voted 296 members of Parliament of 500. What was the cause of food poisoning policy is not clear. But because of acute illness the Prime Minister had to transfer his powers to one of his deputies, who are already on November 29 will hold a cabinet meeting.

Provocateurs foodborne diseases are not so much germs as toxins - toxic substances formed as a result of vital activity of these microbes and their destruction. Germs can get into foods and dishes during their manufacture, storage, transport and sale. Toxins as obtained from food or formed in the body, cause inflammation in the mucous membrane of the stomach, small intestine and colon.

Symptoms of food poisoning:
• Abdominal pain.
• Nausea, vomiting.
• Diarrhea: stool is up to 10-15 times a day, first liquid stool, then watery abundant fetid feces.
• increased body temperature, there are chills, tachycardia (rapid heartbeat).
• lowers blood pressure.
• It may be fainting, muscle cramps are sometimes observed.

How to help the victim:
• First of all you need to know the nature of the poison and the way in which he was in the body.
• Allow the patient to drink 4-5 glasses of warm water (children - 100g per year of life).
• Induce vomiting, pushing the root of the tongue or pharynx tickled.
• Re-wash the stomach to complete purification.
• Give the victim 5 tablets pounded charcoal (washed down with water).
• Drinking plenty of fluids: alkaline mineral water, 2% solution of baking soda.
Vomiting unconscious victim to turn his head to one side and immediately call "ambulance." Call necessarily even in cases where, at first glance, the poisoning is mild, ie. A. After a while there may come a sharp deterioration of the patient.

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