A member asked:

My 2-year-old ate raw ground chicken, is there anything we should do as a prophylactic measure?

4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers

Watch & wait: There are germs associated with raw chicken but they may or may not be present or cause any problems. Onset of diarrhea associated with fever or bloody diarrhea should prompt a doc visit & stool culture. Some of the germs are innocuous and some you don't necessarily treat if they show up on stool culture. Abx sometimes prolongs the duration a kid carries the germ in his/her gut.

Answered 3/28/2013

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Dr. MANNAN RAZZAK answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Raw chicken: Nothing to do now but monitor for vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. If it starts then pedialyte.

Answered 3/17/2014

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