Food Poisoning may Linger in the Body Over Time

Prior to recent reports, it was common knowledge that when a person came down with food poisoning, he or she visited his or her physician and exponentially got better, never to think of the nasty illness ever again. Well today, studies show that food poisoning does not come and go. Several illnesses associated with food poisoning have the ability to linger in a once affected body and strain future health. E. coli and certain other food-borne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout.While these conditions strike a small fraction of the millions of people who get food poisoning each year, experts say no one knows just how many people are at risk. An interview with AP described future illnesses such as high blood pressure, kidney damage, even full kidney failure striking 10 to 20 years later in people who survived severe E. coli infection as children, arthritis after a bout of salmonella or shigella, and a mysterious paralysis that can attack people who just had mild symptoms of campylobacter.


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