| Busy are the city dwellers, busier are the road side | | | | - Fever |
| fast food. At the current over crowding industrial age | | | | When food is cooked properly with quality |
| people seldom find time to cook healthy food. They | | | | ingredients, these pathogens are totally killed. But |
| opt for the road side restaurants. People pay for the | | | | most of the road side food stalls use degraded and |
| under cooked food and eat it with standing ovation | | | | low quality ingredients. At these road side food |
| Now the big question is "How safe are these road | | | | shops, the cooking methods are also unsafe. |
| side food courts?" | | | | Moreover there are fecal contaminations in the food |
| Awareness about the threats posed by unsafe food | | | | which could probably be the most dangerous factor |
| is an essential prerequisite to healthy food habits. | | | | accompanying unsafe food. |
| Unsafe food harbors harmful pathogens which can | | | | Due to improper sanitation and unclean cooking |
| cause infection in our digestive system and lead to a | | | | habits, there is a high risk of fecal contamination in |
| minor enteric infection to fatal food poisoning. Let us | | | | these unsafe food materials. Consequently, the |
| go ahead and see in detail about the ill effects | | | | individual who intakes the food becomes an easy |
| caused by unsafe and unhygienic food material. | | | | victim of enteric infection in case his immune |
| To start with let us get to know about the enteric | | | | apparatus is considerably weak. |
| pathogens and enteric fever. Enteric pathogens are | | | | Another common occurrence associated with the |
| bacteria and protozoa like salmonella and amoeba | | | | road side food intake is food poisoning. This is an |
| which cause enteric fever when ingested through | | | | impact of the toxic substance generated by the |
| these unsafe foods. The notorious enteric diseases | | | | pathogenic bacteria dwelling in the unsafe food. |
| are typhoid and amoebiasis. | | | | Considering these lurking dangers associated with |
| When we ingest under cooked and unsafe foods | | | | unsafe and unhygienic foods supplied at road side |
| these pathogens enter our system and cause initial | | | | food stalls, it is highly advisable that we avoid eating |
| symptoms like: | | | | food material prepared by these sub standard stalls. |
| - Vomiting | | | | There goes an adage "Prevention is better than |
| - Nausea | | | | cure". Let's follow healthy food habits and protect our |
| - Diarrhea | | | | gut and digestive system from harmful effects of |
| - Dizziness | | | | enteric pathogens. |