Infant botulism is a botulinum poisoning found in children 0 to 12 months of age. It consists of the ingestion of spores of Clostridium botulinum, which germinating in the intestine release botulinum toxin. The disease is manifested in infants because, in proportion to body weight, the amount of toxin needed to trigger botulism is small. One of the mostly indicted foods was homemade honey because it was not controlled as the industrial one.
The disease manifests itself with a general paralysis of the body. Already for the first symptoms, antitumor therapy should be initiated as a respiratory paralysis would lead to death by suffocating the baby. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto Links externalize the wikitesto
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