prevention
Last reviewed 01/2018
The best form of treatment is prevention:
- strict standards of hygiene should be adhered to by all food handlers and adequate storing, preparing and cooking of all foods is vital
- other patients with salmonella infection should be excluded from work or school until they are asymptomatic. If cases occur in hospital, then patients should be isolated
- food handlers should have three consecutive, negative, weekly stool cultures before they return to work
- health care and nursery workers, and children under 5 years should return to work or school when asymptomatic. Appropriate instruction about personal hygiene should be given