Interview with Alvaro Morales, medical specialist internal medicine at Kennedy Hospital.
What kind of meat contamination cases have been presented at the Kennedy hospital?
Kennedy Hospital is the third level, but reach only patients referred by a hospital for second and first level that most likely if contamination of meat, but these are not the most common cases in this hospital, it is difficult find patients who arrive with this type of disease, brucellosis is actually controlled at the level of government and they are outstanding livestock is slaughtered and the slaughter, just an outbreak of FMD and brucellosis is detected immediately and allows us control, but for us physicians is rare to see such cases.
What are the symptoms of poisoning with meat?
Nausea, vomiting, malaise, weakness, skin manifestations of allergies in both pediatric and adults in emergencies do not recall any cases of poisoning from meat really, it is not common.
But if there are cases registered?
If they exist, but patients consulting a first level hospital or health centers as it is very controllable, a general practitioner is controlled and are not fatal.
What would be the ideal treatment?
General measures, these patients have no appetite and do not eat, we have to get dehydrated and hydrated, if a bacterial infection such as brucellosis is given an antibiotic and serum and the patient recovers at home with oral antibiotics.
If a person eats contaminated meat can lead to death?
If you can get, but is not expected as it is controlled in fact very rare and more in Bogotá with the system we have as good health.
Does the treatment would be equal across the population in either children or adults?
Yes, it is the same, the child is more susceptible in terms of hydration, resist less, but in general are patients with good prognosis. What
steps you should take the patient? Complete
treatment and diet while establishing the gut, but since it is a source capable of producing an epidemic, we should think about finding where it comes from the contaminants and track, now, in case of brucellosis or fever Typhoid, what happens is that in a hospital as that of Kennedy, has a floating population of Bogotá is not in many cases, but it is a rare disease, but is not very common, and must report it to the national level.
How small the infection can affect the patient's life in a drastic?
If affects the sense that disabled while the disease is not solved, about five days in bed but does not pass over, in fact have to be careful with home remedies that are not very good in these cases. All is well worked in the district health network, some people have direct access, but in cases like Simon Bolivar GPs will settle it, but they are not replicas diseases in the future.
At what point can be aggravated?
joints has a consequence, immediate manifestations, patients with infections in the spine, would be seen by brucellosis and more are extradijestiva that serious arthritis in the spine and lower back pain with inflammatory symptoms, but will recover the antibiotic in house.
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