Peanut butter recall!

[Gowest]

I was hit thursday night with the dreaded stomach flu/salmonella. It hit hard and fast like a ton of bricks - I have had the stomach flu before and this was so much worse. I started feeling bad while seeing patients around 3PM - by 5PM I was home in the bathroom with my head in a bucket. Oh it was bad - I almost passed out three times - severe dehydration and cramping - headache and fever. I lost about 8 lbs overnight.

Then, I slept for two days - only to read the paper about the PB - sure enough I have a 2111 jar at work and one at home. I ususally eat a bagel with PB every day for breakfast or mid-day snack.

It could have been the flu - but is seemed far worse than anything I have ever had before.

Don't know if I can bring myself to eat peanut butter again - just the thought of it makes me sick.......

I will probably be off my bike for at least a week

It makes you wonder about prepared food in general. I am such a germ-a-phobe - constantly washing and sanitizing my hands. I am a dentist and work in patient's mouth and rarely if ever get sick by using good universal precautions - but this one really got me.......scary.

Debi

[mary9761]

I lost nearly 10 pounds overnight with my bout on the first of the month. Luckily I did keep some liquids down, but no fun. Sorry you got sick, call the doc and board of health. Hang on to your peanut butter in case they want/need to test it.
I'm guessing a lot of people who think they may have gotten a norovirus may actually have gotten salmonella.

[Xrayted]

Just wanted to bump this thread... I was needing some peanut butter tonight and so I root around and find a new jar in the cupboard. Hmmm, Peter Pan. I'm thinking, isn't that the one that is making everybody sick? I'm talking to Kitsune online and she says there's a thread on this in TE. So, off we go searching and here it is. So... yup, you guessed it, I have a 2111 code on my Peter Pan. Dangit. I really wanted that peanut butter sandwich. (you know how that can be )
We've been seeing tons of locals coming in our ER lately for abdominal cramps and severe vomiting. The novovirus has been taking the heat for it until the last few weeks. I just checked on my local paper's site and we've definitely been getting hit here. Now, they are saying that many in our area have been ill from the peanut butter. We had a guy tonight who was vomiting for over 2 hours in the ER and then puked thru his xrays as well. He waited until he couldn't take it anymore before even coming in. I have no idea what he could possibly have left to puke at this point. Maybe his pancreas?

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to Mary and all those who posted here before me. I never really watch tv and rarely read the paper anymore. I'm about to move and just have no extra time right now. So, if it ain't on TE, I don't know about it.

Take care and be safe ladies...

X.

[mary9761]

I'm glad you didn't have that peanut butter sandwich and end up sick like I did. Man I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I can't prove that's what it was that I had, but I HAVE had Salmonella before and that's what it felt like. Before hearing about the peanut butter, I assumed I picked up something from a shopping cart or the bus anything but peanut butter.

[Mr. Bloom]

We found that we had a 2111...90% Empty

That's kind of like finding half a worm in your apple

Anyway, we weren't ever sick.

[Xrayted]

Glad to hear that you and Silver had an ok jar. I'm here trying to figure out if I'm just supposed to throw it all away or return it to someone for a replacement. It's such a lovely looking jar of peanut butter too. What a shame. I guess I'll go back to Skippy. As a kid, I ate Skippy because Annette Funicello did the commercials.

[Mr. Bloom]

I guess I'll go back to Skippy.

We've become HUGE FANs of the new natural peanut butters out there.

[mary9761]

My sister works for a walmart and she says if you want to get a refund/replacement for your peanut butter to take the complete jar back to them or I'd imagine anywhere you purchased you Skippy. If you just want a refund you can mail the lid to conagra and they know what lid goes to what jar.
The news has been telling everyone to throw the peanut butter away and send the lids in. A local lawyer said to hang on to the peanut butter (especially if you've gotten sick) otherwise you have no evidence that it WAS the peanut butter and not something else.
When I talked to the woman at the Indiana State Board of Health after we heard about the peanut butter recall and after we'd already been sick, she told me to hang on to our peanut butter (but isolate it) in case they need to test it. She also said that the salmonella that is in SOME of the peanut butter isn't necessarily distributed evenly throughout the product.
Good luck
Mary