Symptoms of C.botulinum?

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Symptoms of C.botulinum?

Answer 1

This bacteria has a toxin that affects the nerves and will cause paralysis. Bad enough and it will stop your breathing and you can die. Most people never completely recover especially if they get a bad case. Always cook to boiling, canned food and never give infant children honey as their immune system can not handle the small amounts of bacteria sometimes found in hive honey.

Answer 2

Clostridium botulinum symptoms and disease process:

"Symptoms usually develop within 12 to 36 hours after consumption of contaminated food. They include double or blurred vision, slurred speech, muscle weakness and flaccid paralysis that progresses down from the head, affecting the rest of the body. Paralysis of the respiratory system may eventually cause death if not treated.

Infant botulism progresses in a different manner. The initial sign is constipation, followed by lethargy, inability to feed, floppiness and ultimately, respiratory failure. Infant botulism is rare and symptoms often take weeks to occur after consumption of spores, which grow and produce toxin in the infant’s intestine. As infants get older, they develop “healthy” bacteria in their intestine that prevent the growth of the organism. Wound botulism occurs when C. botulinum cells infect a wound and grow, producing toxin, which is carried to other parts of the body in the bloodstream."