Infections and disease are very difficult to fight while you are pregnant because the hormonal changes associated with pregnancy lower your immune system. Food borne illness poses a risk and therefore preventing it during pregnancy is extremely important. This is because your fetus is also a higher risk since your immune system is not fully developed.
The following are some basic safety tips to prevent food borne illness.
(1) foods must be cooked thoroughly until fully done. Especially birds and minced meat must be fully cooked right through the Center with no left pink. While cooking the egg white and yolk are firm.
(2) should be thaw frozen food in the refrigerator or microwave only, not in a database or in the sink.
(3) Raw and cooked food should not be kept on the same ship and must be separated. Even knives and cutting boards should be used separately.
(4) Both the utensils and kitchen must be kept clean.
(5)Before and after handling food, your hands should be washed and kept dry.
(6) food preparation surfaces clean with hot water and SOAP before and after food preparation.
(7) To drink milk and fresh juices make sure they are pasteurized.
(8) Keep cold food cold, and in the refrigerator (which is less than 5 degrees C) and hot food
steam hot (above 60 degrees C) while serving.
(9) Cook fish until the meat is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
(10) Avoid unpasteurized soft cheese, seafood smoked or cold deli salads.
Follow these tips and you should be fine in most cases. When you are sick and until midnight with a headache, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, you probably blame what you ate last. You can blame the wrong food, however, so that it can take several days to get sick of some pathogens (pathogenic micro-organisms) that cause food-borne diseases. You may also be surprised to know that you could easily have gotten sick from food prepared at home from eating at a restaurant. Remember food-borne diseases can fool you!
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