Who would have thought
Drank a glass of leftover milk from the fridge
Sepsis occurs in pregnant women
Leads to premature fetal birth and septic shock
Lives hang by a thread!
Pregnant women are infected with Listeria monocytogenes
Causes sepsis and premature fetal shock
Xiaomei (pseudonym), a pregnant woman in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, drank a glass of fresh milk that had been opened in the refrigerator when she was 27 weeks pregnant.
But 7 days after drinking milk, Xiaomei suddenly began to have a low-grade fever, and the blood routine and CRP indicators in a local municipal hospital increased significantly, and the doctor prescribed "cephalosporin", Xiaomei's body temperature returned to normal after taking it, and the blood routine and CRP indicators gradually declined.
However, on the 21st day after drinking that glass of milk, Xiaomei's body temperature suddenly burned to 39.2 °C, premature rupture of membranes, and intrauterine hypoxia of the fetus, and she urgently went to the obstetrics department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University in the middle of the night for emergency cesarean section.
The baby developed septic shock shortly after birth, and the blood routine showed abnormally high leukocytes and a leukemia-like reaction.
After treatment, the baby's condition gradually improved. After 2 days, Xiaomei's blood culture report showed "Listeria monocytogenes" infection, and placental biopsy showed "acute chorioamnionitis and umbilical corditis", confirming intrauterine listeria infection. After the mother and son underwent active rescue treatment in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Xiaomei was discharged from the hospital on June 12, and the infection of the premature baby was completely controlled on June 13.
According to the doctor, from 2007 to the present, the Department of Neonatology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University has treated a total of 6 cases of early-onset neonatal listeria infection.
The mortality rate of neonatal infection is as high as 30%~70%
Why is Listeria so scary?
Listeria monocytogenes is very common in our lives and can be found in most foods, soil, plants, animal feed, and human and animal feces.
Listeria monocytogenes, known as the "refrigerator killer", to prevent this cold-faced killer from targeting you, please collect these knowledge points:
1. What foods are easily contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes?
Listeria monocytogenes prefer to hide in these foods: raw milk and its products, ice cream, fruits and vegetables that can be eaten raw, meat and meat products, cold cooked foods, raw foods, and smoked seafood.
Many people think that the refrigerator is a "safe", and it is safe to put food in it. And Listeria monocytogenes is a representative of "psychrophilic bacteria". It has a strong ability to survive, in an environment below 4 °C, most of the bacteria will slow down the growth rate, but Listeria can still grow and multiply in a refrigerated environment of 0~4 °C, and can survive for 1 year at -20 °C!
In addition, it has the ability to tolerate dryness and high salt environments, and has a long shelf life (more than five days) of refrigerated ready-to-eat food, which is a high-risk food for listeria infection.
2. What happens if you eat food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes?
Listeria monocytogenes has a strong ability to invade, and eating food contaminated by it can cause diarrhea at mild level, and even life-threatening in severe cases, but whether it develops the disease after invading the human body is related to age and immune status. Infection in healthy adults generally does not have serious consequences, and even if they carry the germs, they do not develop the disease, and the infection rate is very low.
To put it simply, it is Listeria "bullying the soft and afraid of the hard", and the elderly, pregnant women, newborns, and immunocompromised people are the best targets.
Patients with listeriosis usually develop symptoms 3~70 days after eating contaminated food, including cold-like symptoms, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache, muscle pain, etc., and severe cases of infection may also appear septicemia and meningitis.
Especially in pregnant women, after being infected with Listeria monocytogenes, the pregnant woman herself may not show serious symptoms, but the bacteria can infect the fetus through the placenta, and may cause serious consequences such as miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth, sepsis and meningitis of newborn babies, and the mortality rate of neonatal infection is as high as 30%-70%.
3. How to prevent Listeria monocytogenes?
1. Keep it clean
Keep your hands clean, and in addition to washing your hands before and after meals, before and after using the toilet, you should also pay attention to hand hygiene before and during cooking.
Kitchen utensils should be kept clean, and special attention should be paid to the hygiene of dishes, chopsticks, chopstick boxes, knives, cutting boards, and rags to prevent them from becoming a source of pollution.
2. Separate raw and cooked
During the cooking process, raw and cooked foods should be separated. "cooked" here refers to foods that are eaten directly after being cut, such as vegetable salad, cold cucumber, jellyfish skin, beef in sauce, etc.; "Raw" refers to food that has been subjected to heat treatment after it has been cut. Separating raw and cooked food not only means that they should not touch each other, but also that the cutting boards, knives, and utensils used should also be separated.
3. Boiled Toru
Listeria monocytogenes is most afraid of high temperatures, and food can be killed after 5~20 minutes when fully cooked or heated to more than 60°C. Therefore, raw foods should be cooked thoroughly, especially meat, poultry, eggs and seafood.
4. Keep food at a safe temperature
Cooked food is not recommended if stored at room temperature for more than 2 hours. All cooked and perishable foods should be refrigerated (below 5°C) in a timely manner. Cooked food should be heated to above 60°C before consumption. Food should not be stored in the refrigerator for too long. Do not thaw frozen food at room temperature. It is best thawed in the microwave, refrigerator or clean running water. When using a microwave oven, ensure sufficient heating time to bring the core temperature of the food to above 60°C.
Forward Reminders!
The food in the fridge should be as hot as possible before eating!
Not a few minutes! Health is the most important thing!
Source: Hangzhou Daily, FM93 Traffic Voice, Wenzhou Metropolis Daily