prevention

Last reviewed 01/2018

The best form of treatment is prevention:

• strict standards of hygiene should be adhered to by all food handlers and adequate storing, preparing and cooking of all foods is vital

• other patients with salmonella infection should be excluded from work or school until they are asymptomatic. If cases occur in hospital, then patients should be isolated

• food handlers should have three consecutive, negative, weekly stool cultures before they return to work

• health care and nursery workers, and children under 5 years should return to work or school when asymptomatic. Appropriate instruction about personal hygiene should be given