The Clinical Investigation of Acute Diarrheal Disease by Seafood in Autumn at a Seacoast Communities of Korea.
- Author:
Jong An LEE
1
Author Information
1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Taean Medical Center, Chungnam, Korea. hrfamily@medigate.net
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Diarrhea;
Food poisoning
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Diarrhea;
Epidemiology;
Fever;
Foodborne Diseases;
Humans;
Korea*;
Palinuridae;
Retrospective Studies;
Seafood*;
Shellfish;
Vomiting
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2002;13(4):459-465
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between acute diarrheal disease and causative seafood. METHODS: This study was done retrospectively by investigating age, sex, symptoms, and causative seafoods in 140 patients. Correlating symptoms were vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, and bloody diarrhea. Causative seafood were crab, spiny lobster, pickles, sliced raw fish, and shellfish. All patients was seen at our hospital between September and November in two consecutive years, 2000 and 2001. RESULTS: An characteristic of seafood related food poisoning was an age of 30 or older. The major cause of seafood related food poisoning was crab. The most common symptom of seafood related food poisoning was abdominal pain. Symptom of crab relate food poisoning was most severe. CONCLUSION: Further studies are recommended to document an epidemiology and bacteriologic analysis of seafood related food poisoning in Chungnam-Taeangun.
