IMMUNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -For some types of bacterial food poisoning, your healthcare provider may give you a medicine that fights bacteria (an antibiotic). Antibiotics don’t work on infections caused by a virus. In severe cases, you may need to be hospitalized. Call your healthcare provider if you can’t keep fluids down.

Detailed explanation-2: -A person with a foodborne infection caused by antimicrobial-resistant bacteria will have similar symptoms to infections caused by bacteria that can be killed by antibiotics. Symptoms can be mild to life-threatening. People with mild symptoms of food poisoning usually do not need antibiotics to get better.

Detailed explanation-3: -Treatment of food poisoning includes the use of antibiotics such as Ciprofloxacin, Azithromycin, Levofloxacin, Cotrimoxazole and many more. Rifaximin is another antibiotic which is approved for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, traveller’s diarrhoea (E. coli associated food poisoning), infectious diarrhoea.

Detailed explanation-4: -Your doctor might prescribe antibiotics if your foodborne illness is caused by bacteria or a parasite. For serious cases of food poisoning as a result of E. Coli (Escherichia coli) exposure, azithromycin (Zithromax) or the rifaximin (Xifaxan) may be prescribed.