Preventing foodborne illness during the summer months

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Summer get-togethers are astir pulling retired the grill and cooking up your favourite foods. But that's not the lone happening that thrives nether the heat.

"Bacteria truly similar the blistery upwind and particularly present successful the Central Valley, we person truly blistery summers," said Dr. Sakshi Joshi, a Family Medicine Physician with Kaiser Permanente successful Fresno.

With the Fourth of July adjacent week, radical are getting acceptable to service up their treats and snacks. That's wherefore it's indispensable to marque definite your nutrient is decently stored and cooked.

"Eggs, fish, you cognize those kinds of foods are precocious risk," said Dr. Joshi. "A cardinal happening that you tin bash is marque definite that you don't permission the nutrient out, particularly extracurricular for much than 2 hours."

During the summertime months, doctors spot an summation of radical getting sick from a foodborne illness. Dr. Joshi explains norovirus is 1 of the astir communal ailments.

"We spot it a batch of times connected cruises and stuff," said Dr. Joshi, "but we besides spot it a batch successful the summertime due to the fact that of each the summertime barbecues and picnics and stuff. It's truly casual to spread, not conscionable by contaminated foods but besides idiosyncratic to person."

Symptoms to ticker retired for see nausea, vomiting, Diarrhea, and tummy pain.

Dr. Joshi says these symptoms tin past up to 7 days.

"If you are throwing up and having truthful overmuch diarrhea wherever you're getting dehydrated, and you're not capable to support thing down, delight question urgent aesculapian care," said Dr. Joshi. "We privation to marque definite that you're not getting dehydrated."

On apical of due nutrient storage, marque definite you enactment hydrated and support your hands clean.

Some elemental suggestions to assistance from getting sick to guarantee your summertime doesn't crook into a bummer.

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