If you ate at McDonald's recently, take these safety measures amid deadly E Coli outbreak

Anyone who has consumed a Quarter Pounder hamburger from McDonald's successful caller weeks is being urged to enactment alert if they announcement changes to their bodies.

A large outbreak of the bacteria E Coli has been linked to astir 2,700 fast nutrient stores successful Mountain West states, sidesplitting 1 and hospitalizing 10 others.

The CDC says anyone who ate a Quarter Pounder - which is consumed by 100,000 Americans per time - and feels sick should interaction their doc immediately.

And nutrient information experts told DailyMail.com that those who ate astatine McDonald's should stay vigilant for 2 to 8 days aft being exposed, arsenic symptoms could instrumentality astir a week to start.   

E Coli kills up to a 5th of radical it infects, truthful the proposal is not to hold and to question assistance immediately. So acold 49 Americans are confirmed to person the unwellness aft eating astatine McDonald's but that is apt a immense undercount, the CDC says.

The CDC warned consumers: 'If you person terrible symptoms of E. coli corruption aft eating a Quarter Pounder hamburger astatine McDonald's, question wellness attraction and archer your supplier astir what you ate.' 

While astir patients retrieve connected their own, those with terrible unwellness whitethorn person been subjected to bloody diarrhea, vomiting, tummy cramps, and dehydration. 

The bureau besides advises seeking assistance for diarrhea that lasts for astatine slightest 3 days with nary betterment oregon vomiting truthful terrible that it's hard to support liquids down. 

Mitzi Baum, a nutrient information adept and CEO of nonprofit Stop Foodborne Illness, told DailyMail.com: 'If you person eaten a Quarter Pounder precocious and are showing the symptoms described above, delight question aesculapian attraction immediately. In bid for your unwellness to beryllium treated appropriately, you request to beryllium tested for E. coli.

'Tell your aesculapian supplier that you judge that you are portion of the existent E. coli outbreak associated with McDonald's Quarter Pounders, and you privation to beryllium tested for E. coli.'

Stool, blood, and urine tests tin observe the bacteria. 

She besides noted that contempt the outbreak, 'consumers don't request to debar the edifice entirely,' arsenic affected items person been removed from restaurants successful impacted states. 

The outbreak dispersed to 10 states: Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, and Oregon. 

This means that customers surviving successful those states are astir astatine hazard of corruption if they ate a Quarter Pounder between eptember 27 and October 11. 

Ms Baum said that young children and the aged should beryllium peculiarly vigilant, arsenic they are much apt to person compromised immune systems, making them much susceptible to terrible infections.

She said: 'They tin make a superior complication of E.coli poisoning called hemolytic uremia syndrome (HUS). If it occurs, it develops an mean of 7 days aft the archetypal symptoms, erstwhile the diarrhea is improving.'

HUS is the complication that hospitalized the unidentified kid mentioned successful the CDC's report. It affects astir 200 to 300 Americans per twelvemonth and kills little than 1 successful 20 of those.

Symptoms of HUS see fever, abdominal pain, airy skin, fatigue, irritability, bruising, and bleeding from the chemoreceptor and mouth, Ms Baum said.  

There is nary circumstantial attraction for E coli, truthful astir patients are expected to remainder and portion plentifulness of fluids to stave disconnected dehydration, Ms Baum said. 

The CDC recommends terrible E coli beryllium treated with IV fluids, humor transfusions, and kidney dialysis if patients endure from the complication hemolytic uremic syndrome, which damages the kidneys. 

Ms Baum said: 'Antibiotics should not beryllium utilized to dainty this infection. There is nary grounds that attraction with antibiotics is helpful, and taking antibiotics whitethorn summation the hazard of HUS.'

The Mayo Clinic recommends avoiding anti-diarrhea medications, arsenic they dilatory down the digestive strategy and forestall the assemblage from getting escaped of toxins, meaning it could support you sick longer.