You can help prevent this infection by handling and cooking meat in a safe way. For your protection, follow these rules:
Wash your hands carefully with soap before you start cooking.
Cook ground beef until you see no pink anywhere.
Don’t taste small bites of raw ground beef while you’re cooking.
Don’t put cooked hamburgers on a plate that [...]
The diagnosis is made by finding E. coli in a stool culture. If you have bloody diarrhea, see your doctor as soon as possible. Your doctor will do a culture to find out if you have E. coli in your intestines. The culture has to be taken in the first 48 hours after the bloody [...]
The most common complication is called hemolytic uremic syndrome. People with this problem get hemolytic anemia (which is a low red blood cell count), thrombocytopenia (which is a low platelet count) and renal failure (which is kidney damage).
Hemolytic uremic syndrome is more common in children. It can cause acute renal failure in children. This problem [...]
Symptoms start about 7 days after you are infected with the germ. The first sign is severe abdominal cramps that start suddenly. After a few hours, watery diarrhea starts. The diarrhea causes your body to lose fluids and electrolytes (dehydration). This makes you feel sick and tired. The watery diarrhea lasts for about a day. [...]
Most E. coli infections come from:
Eating undercooked ground beef (the inside is pink)
Drinking contaminated (impure) water
Drinking unpasteurized (raw) milk
Working with cattle
Healthy beef and dairy cattle may carry the E. coli germ in their intestines. The meat can get contaminated with the germ during the slaughtering process. When beef is ground up, the E. coli germs [...]
E. coli is short for Escherichia coli — a bacteria (germ) that causes severe cramps and diarrhea. E. coli is a leading cause of bloody diarrhea. The symptoms are worse in children and older people, and especially in people who have another illness.
If you or a loved one has been injured due to food [...]
I grew up in the small town of Locust Grove where my parents owned a old-fashioned variety store known as Nunley Sundries which was located next to the bank on Main Street. Nowadays when I find myself back in Locust Grove, I enjoy eating at the Country Cottage restaurant, known far and wide for delicious [...]
The contingency fee system is the “key to the courtroom” for regular folks who have been injured through the intentional or negligent acts of another.
Contingency attorney fees are when an attorney does not require a client to pay money up front to hire the attorney. The attorney will receive his compensation from any funds received [...]
Here’s a video regarding how insurance companies don’t play fair. Insurance companies like to change the rules regarding their insurance policies whenever necessary to gain or maintain an advantage in their relationship with their own insured or a third-party claimant.
I’ll admit that I am biased against insurance companies. As a trial lawyer who represents injured and disabled people, the insurance companies are my adversaries in each and every case. Years of practicing law have shown me that regardless of what the insurance companies say in their advertisements, they are more concerned with profit than [...]
