aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
- bacterial
- intrinsically poisonous food, for example deadly nightshade, red kidney beans
- parasites in the meat, for example Taenia, Trichinella
- chemicals:
- heavy metals, e.g. mercury, zinc
- pesticides, e.g. rodenticides, insecticides
- allergies
- paralytic shell fish poisoning
- scombrotoxin histamine intoxication
- viral food poisonining
- chinese restaurant syndrome - monosodium glutamate
paralytic shell fish poisoning