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Food poisoning: 46 students hospitalised
Staff Reporter
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They started vomitting after consuming eggs
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Photo: M. Balaji
Who to blame? Students of Panchayat Union Elementary School, Kasipalayam, admitted to District Headqaurters hospital in Tirupur on Wednesday. –
Tirupur: A total of 46 students of Panchayat Union Elementary school were admitted to District Headquarters Hospital here on Wednesday afternoon apparently because of food poisoning.
Hospital sources said that the children first developed tiredness, headache, nausea after they consumed egg distributed free to them under the midday meal scheme and then started vomiting profusely.
A team of doctors led by Duty Medical Officer S. Senthil Kumar administered Intra Venous (IV) fluids to 14 children who were admitted as inpatients with extreme fatigue and weariness, at the poison and first aid treatment centre at the hospital.
“This is to replace the fluid lost from their bodies owing to dehydration caused by vomiting,” the hospital sources said.
The remaining 32 students who were given anti-emetic drugs to control nausea and kept under observation at a special cell for three hours were later discharged.
Some of the children complained that foul smell emanated from the eggs served during the lunch.
A medical team attached to Primary Health Centre run by the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Mangalam had obtained the samples of eggs distributed at the school for tests.
Sources said that food specimen taken from the school kitchen would be tested at the micro biology department at Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital to understand whether the shelf life of egg had crossed the expiry date and any contamination had occurred in the boiled eggs.
Besides, stool samples of affected children would also be sent for examination to ascertain which type of micro organism had entered into their body.
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