Have You Been Infected With E Coli?

What is E. coli? How does it affect the body? The answers are simple. E. coli is a bacteria (germ) that causes bloody diarrhea, and dehydration. The infection is more common during the summer months.

E. coli comes from undercooked meat.
Drinking contaminated (unclean water).
Drinking unpasteurized milk.
Working with or being around cattle.

Even though dairy cattle may be healthy they still can carry the E. coli bacteria in the intestines. The meat can be tainted during the slaughtering process. There fore it can get mixed up with the meat.

So as you eat the contaminated meat, you could be infected with the E. coli bacteria. If you used a temperature that is high enough, and cook the meat long enough to kill the bacteria, You might can save yourself a world of misery! When you eat undercooked meat it goes into your body and intestines in return causes bloody diarrhea.

How can you tell you have been infected?

In most people the symptoms start in 7 days of being infected.

1.Severe stomach cramps.
2.Watery diarrhea, it usually last for about a day. After that it changes to bright red diarrhea(bloody stool.) The infection makes sores in the intestines, and that is what makes it bloody stool that can last for anywhere from 2-5days
3. There may also be a mild fever. Along with having a sick stomach or vomiting.

If you have had diarrhea for any period of time you will get dehydrated. That will cause you even more problems. If you drink safe drinking water as much as you can to keep from dehydrating you can help speed up recovery. Why do I say safe drinking water. If the water you drink isn't safe drinking water you could be adding even more bacteria into your body like Cysts and Parasites that can make you even more sick.

Along with Cysts and Parasites there can also be Chemicals such as herbicides and pesticides, VOCs. Now who need something else besides E.coli to make us sick? But that is why we need to make sure all the time, to drink clean purified water, not just when we get sick. We should try to be aware of how we clean and cook our beef, chicken, pork and animal meats. But also keeping in mind it is not only what you eat it is also the water you drink, can infected you with the E.coli bacteria.