KOMPAS.com – Food poisoning is usually caused by toxins in food or virus contamination in food.
Reported from Mayo clinic, Wednesday (5/2/2025), germs that cause food poisoning are known as contaminants consisting of bacteria, viruses, toxins, and parasites.
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Symptoms of food poisoning generally consist of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, diarrhea accompanied by bloody stools, abdominal pain, fever, and headaches.
As a result, food poisoning causes blurred vision effects, difficulty swallowing food, weak body, to numbness or tingling on the skin.
Often considered trivial, you should recognize the cause of food poisoning to avoid this disease.
Causes of food poisoning
1. Less clean was washing hands
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As long as washing hands can trigger contaminants to move to the food that will be consumed. As a result, the virus will enter the body through food.
Washing the ideal hand requires at least 40-60 seconds with soap and running water.
Make sure between your fingers, nails, and palms clean from dirt before eating food.
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2. Dirty Cooking and Eating Development
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Basically, the level of hygiene becomes the main trigger for food poisoning. Including cleanliness of cooking utensils and cutlery.
For example, knives, cutting boards, or pans that are not washed can spread contaminants. Likewise with spoons, forks, and plates.
In order to avoid food poisoning, you must wash this equipment using dish soap and rinse it with running water until clean.
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3. Salah Store Food
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Triggers for food poisoning are vulnerable to the wrong storage temperature, especially at room temperature.