Stomach Flu vs. Food Poisoning

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I've been told, though, that food poisoning can occur anywhere from a few hours to 3 days after the offending food is eaten. I wonder if that's true.

Yes I read all about various food poisoning symptoms and many food poisoning symptoms occur several days after eating the food. There are various specific types of food poisoning and they are all different.

[Mr. Bloom]

Well, one thing I can say for gatorade and saltines...they make their round trip with ease!!! I had gone 4 stable hours...but that just changed.

So, now I'm on Propel...I'm allegic to tea...and my body seems to be favoring cold rather than hot.

Ironically, I feel decent right now...just achey with the chills.

You can see from my blog that I had quite a dinner last night at Bonefish Grill...shrimp, steak, salad, veggies...I was so good, I even told the waitress to take the bread away (along with temptation). But with all that heavy food, it just made the 'morning incidents' miserable to say the least.

PS: I'm type B blood.

PSS: I WILL go to Arizona tomorrow...I have to, it's going to be 75 degrees

[mimitabby]

you'll be all right mr silver, just don't be in such a rush to eat. The clear food diet lets your guts calm down before you dump more solids on them.

[luv'nAustin]

Mr. Silver,

I had the flu last weekend (along with a nasty sinus infection) and I'm still feeling weaker than normal. I hate to tell you that my stomach is still a little iffy after I eat "real" food.

Hope you enjoy Arizona and go for a hike up Camelback if you're in Phoenix. Good luck!

Karri

[Aggie_Ama]

Don't rush to eat is good advice. I was starving and did, paid for it with another day of horrible stomach cramps. The stomach virus I had last summer lasted 4 days. Only the nasty part one day, but cramping stomach and a feelign of nausea for the other three.

I was told by my doctor to steer clear of gatorade because the sugar could just aggrevate the cramping.

[Trekhawk]

Bananas are a good food to eat when starting solids again after a stomach bug. A doctor recommended this when my kids had a terrible bout of tummy flu it worked a charm.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

[mary9761]

I had some kind of 24 hour bug a couple days before the superbowl and thought it was my payback for getting into the chips and dip late night before going to bed when it was getting ready for it's first assault. I woke kind of nauseous and refluxy and grabbed a couple tums on the way to the bathroom. Well, needless to say I spent the rest of the day between bed and bathroom. I felt like I'd been beaten and didn't actually get a fever until late in the day when I started to feel somewhat better. I survived the day on room temp sips of lemon lime soda and then later on crackers and soda.
I thought I can't be sick for the SUPERBOWL!! I'd bought saurkraut and brats to make. Thankfully I fellt better by then.
The sickest I've ever been was 10 years or so ago when I had Salmonella!! NOT FUN! It started with a terrible headache and I thought I was having one of my worst migraines when I went to the ER because my meds weren't helping. While waiting to be seen at the ER, I needed to go to the bathroom and waiting outside the public restroom door, collapsed (passed out for a few minutes) and came to in the observation room, (way to get taken straight back and no more wait) I was in and out of consciousness due to phenegran etc and hooked up to IV. I found out a few weeks later that it was Salmonella and then they start asking where did you eat/what did you eat etc WEEKS later you're supposed to remember??
I don't EVER want to be THAT sick again and don't envy anyone who is.
Good luck

[Grog]

I'm so sorry Mr. Silver (and for Silver too!!), I hope you're okay and travelling as planned. Just keep washing your hands and hydrating, okay?

And, by the way, antibiotics can't do a thing against the norovirus because, well, it's a virus. Antibiotics target bacteria. I'll be very careful not to catch it this year, it ruined part of my trip to Belgium last year!!