listeriosis - Symptoms and treatment. Listeria monocytogenes.

listeriosis is a bacterial infection most commonly caused by bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.
Listeria can cause food poisoning. Which is intestinal illness,
But it can also spread outside intestines and cause systemic disease and even meningitis and encephalitis.
For most people listeria causes only intestinal symptoms including:
Diarrhea, Vomiting, the severity of this food poisoning is not severe and usually resolves within 1-3 days. People who experience these symptoms usually recover without treatment.
Infection starts around after 24 hours eating of contaminated food.
Listeria is a harmful germ that can hide in many foods. Common foods which can cause listeria infections are:
Hot dog and meat products like deli meats. Dairy products, soft cheese, celery, sprouts, cantaloupe, and ice cream, unpasteurized milk, also called raw milk.
Melon, moreover, you should throw away cut melons if left at room temperature for more then 4 hours.
If listeria spreads outside of intestines it can cause more serious illness.
such cases develops commonly among pregnant women, older adults, newborns and the people who has weakened immune system.
In pregnant women listeriosis itself is mild illness but it can cause miscarriage.
Symptoms of invasive illness usually start within 2 weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria.
Listeria Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream.
listeria can cause severe illness (known as invasive listeriosis) when the bacteria spread beyond the gut to other parts of the body.
Pregnant people, adults 65 years or older, and people with weakened immune systems are at higher risk for severe illness.
Symptoms of severe illness usually start within 2 weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria, but may start as early as the same day or as late as several weeks.
Symptoms among pregnant women.
Fever, Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue. Symptoms in pregnant people are usually mild. Some pregnant people never have symptoms.
However, infection during pregnancy usually leads to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn.
Symptoms in People who are not pregnant: Fever, Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue, Headache, Stiff neck, Confusion, Loss of balance, Seizures.
Almost 1 in 20 non-pregnant people with invasive listeriosis die.

Treatment
Intestinal illness: Most people recover from intestinal illness without antibiotic treatment. Antibiotics are needed only for patients who are very ill or at risk of becoming very ill. People who have an intestinal illness should drink extra fluids while they have diarrhea.

Treatment of invasive illness includes prolonged administration of antibiotics, primarily ampicillin and gentamicin, to which the organism is usually susceptible.