Symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning

List of symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning:

The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Salmonella food poisoning includes the 8 symptoms listed below:

• Sudden onset of symptoms
• Severe headache
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Abdominal cramps
• Fever
• Flu-like symptoms
• Loss of appetite

Note that Salmonella food poisoning symptoms usually refers to various symptoms known to a patient, but the phrase Salmonella food poisoning signs may refer to those signs only noticable by a doctor.

More ways to research these symptoms: To research other symptoms use the symptom center, or to research causes of more than one symptom in combination, try our multi-symptom search.

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Salmonella food poisoning?

The list of other diseases or medical conditions that may be on the differential diagnosis list of alternative diagnoses for Salmonella food poisoning includes:

• Common cold
• Flu
• Viral diseases (digestive)

• Cholera
• Shigellosis

See the full list of 8 alternative diagnoses for Salmonella food poisoning

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Other Possible Causes of these Symptoms

Click on any of the symptoms below to see a full list of other causes including diseases, medical conditions, toxins, drug interactions, or drug side effect causes of that symptom.

• Abdominal cramps - see all causes of Abdominal cramps
• Diarrhea - see all causes of Diarrhea
• Fever - see all causes of Fever
• Flu-like symptoms - see all causes of Flu-like symptoms
• Loss of appetite - see all causes of Poor appetite
• Severe headache - see all causes of Severe headache
• Sudden onset of symptoms
• Vomiting - see all causes of Vomiting

Medical Books Online about Salmonella food poisoning

16 MEDICAL BOOKS ONLINE! Full text. Free access without registration. The full text of published medical book chapters related to Salmonella food poisoning is available from published medical books for more detailed information about Salmonella food poisoning.

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Symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning: Online Medical Books

16 MEDICAL BOOKS ONLINE! Review the full text of medical books online, free, without registration, for more information about the symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning.

Salmonellosis: Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Clinical manifestations of salmonellosis vary but usually include fever, abdominal pain, and severe diarrhea with enterocolitis. Headache, increasing fever, and constipation are more common in typhoidal infection.

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Poisoning: Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Depending on poison (such as alcohol, cyanide, acetone, turpentine, or petroleum): headache, seizures, loss of consciousness, chest pain, muscle weakness, dizziness, nausea, vomiting

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Salmonellosis: Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)

Signs and symptoms of salmonellosis vary depending on the patient but usually include fever, abdominal pain, and severe diarrhea with enterocolitis. Headache, increasing fever, and constipation are more common with typhoidal infection.

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Article Excerpts About Symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning:

FDA Bad Bug Book (Excerpt)

Nature of Acute Disease:: S. typhi and the paratyphoid bacteria are normally caused septicemic and produce typhoid or typhoid-like fever in humans. Other forms of salmonellosis generally produce milder symptoms.

Nature of Disease: Acute symptoms -- Nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, minal diarrhea, fever, and headache. Chronic consequences -- arthritic symptoms may follow 3-4 weeks after onset of acute symptoms. (Source: FDA Bad Bug Book)

Foodborne Infections General: DBMD (Excerpt)

The illness it causes, salmonellosis, typically includes fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps.  In persons with poor underlying health or weakened immune systems, it can invade the bloodstream and cause life-threatening infections.  (Source: excerpt from Foodborne Infections General: DBMD)

Salmonellosis: DBMD (Excerpt)

Fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea (sometimes bloody). Occasionally can establish localized infection (e.g., septic arthritis) or progress to sepsis. (Source: excerpt from Salmonellosis: DBMD)

Foodborne Diseases, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID (Excerpt)

The disease causes acute intestinal distress with sudden onset of headache, fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and sometimes vomiting.

These symptoms, along with loss of appetite, can last for several days. Dehydration (extreme loss of body water), especially among infants, can be severe. Salmonella is an invasive organism that can escape from the intestine and be spread by the blood to other organs. It can become a chronic infection in some people, who may have no symptoms yet can spread the disease to others. (Source: excerpt from Foodborne Diseases, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)

Salmonella: CDC-OC (Excerpt)

Symptoms of Salmonella include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps that develop 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without treatment. (Source: excerpt from Salmonella: CDC-OC)

Salmonella food poisoning as a Cause of Symptoms or Medical Conditions

When considering symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning, it is also important to consider Salmonella food poisoning as a possible cause of other medical conditions. The Disease Database lists the following medical conditions that Salmonella food poisoning may cause:

• Abdominal pain
• Diarrhoea
• Food poisoning
• Gram negative bacilli / rods
• Nausea and vomiting
• Pyrexia of unknown origin
• Reactive arthropathy
• Reiter's syndrome
• Toxic megacolon
• Zoonosis

Medical articles and books on symptoms:

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About signs and symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning:

The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning. This signs and symptoms information for Salmonella food poisoning has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of Salmonella food poisoning signs or Salmonella food poisoning symptoms. Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Salmonella food poisoning may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they are indeed Salmonella food poisoning symptoms.