Food poisoning is one of sickness that
pregnant women easily get when eating foods that are processed in wrong ways.
Pregnant women are afraid of shrimp paste and clams
Vermicelli with fried tofu and shrimp paste
can cause poisoning to pregnant women, so can clams.
Poisoning
is one of sicknesses that pregnant women easily get when eating foods that
aren’t processed right.
In fact, when pregnant, women’s immunity is
weaker than usual, which make them easily attacked by bacteria. A part from
diseases, food poisoning is one of things that you need to take notice of. The
most popular food poisoning’s symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, vomit,
abdominal pain and fever. However, you can completely prevent them easily by
take those following advice.
Keep the body’s good hygiene
Washing hands before and during cook foods
is one of the best ways to prevent bacteria spread leading to foods poisoning.
Make sure that your hands (wrists, palms, fingers and the part between the
fingers) are washed carefully with warm water and soap.
After the washing, you need to dry the
hands carefully because the bacteria will be easier spread in wet conditions.
You should rub the hands with a clean towel or tissue.
If you don’t wash hands before eating, your
hands can still carry dirt, bacteria from the bathroom, trash bin or other
things in and outside the house. Those bacteria can direct to the foods you eat
and expectably cause food poisoning.
You also need to clean hands after cooking
raw foods. That will help you prevent bacteria from spreading one food to
another (cross-contamination).
If you have diarrhea and vomit, you need to
use towels different from your family member’s; clean the towels usually or use
tissues to dry the hands. If you have ulcers or wounds in hands, you need to
keep them clean and dry.
Store foods rightly
After
meals, if there’re too many leftovers, you need to get them frozen as soon as
possible by storing them in freezers.
As soon as you buy frozen foods from super
markets, you have to put them into the refrigerator or freezer.
You need to check and keep the
refrigerators at accurate temperature. Pathogens are dead in cold and hot
conditions but alive in warm conditions. They can be easily transferred in wet
conditions.
After meals, if there’re too many
leftovers, you need to get them frozen as soon as possible by storing them in
freezers. When wanting to get them out, you need to heat them immediately.
There are foods that need good storing:
foods contain cream like cake and disserts, meat and poultry; foods have eggs….
Store foods safely
Cover foods when storing them in
refrigerators: you need separate raw meat from cooked meat as well as other
foods and put them into separate bins, boxes (within covers). It’s necessary to
store foods in the refrigerators or cover them to prevent them from fliers,
birds, pets….
Check the expiration date of frozen foods.
Cook foods carefully
Meat and poultry need cooking well. Before
taking the meat out, you need to check whether it is cooked by using a
chopstick to press the meat (at the thickest part). If there’s no pink fluid
coming out, the meat is cooked.
If you are busy, you can use microwave.
Nonetheless, you have to take notice at the temperature needed to have foods
cooked or stir the foods to make sure they are heated.
Before cooking, you need to make sure that
the frozen foods are defrosted rightly. You should defrost foods in room
temperature; it’s recommended that you shouldn’t defrost foods by soaking them
into boiling water, which will make them lose vitamins and minerals.
Be aware of cross-contamination
Cross-contamination is spreading pathogens
from a food to another. The pathogens can be transferred directly or
non-directly, from hands; kitchen appliances, knife and other tools.
Cross-contamination is one of the main reason causing food poisoning.
Avoid eating foods on the street
It
is one of things that contains high risks of food poisoning to pregnant women.
That’s because it is one of things that
contains high risks of food poisoning to pregnant women. If you can’t do
anything different, you should eat at stores that have food safety
certification. Do not eat foods selling on the street or at dirty places. Stop
eating when you find strange objects in the food.
