Eating a virus

[malkin]

Bummer that you got sick.

My vote is coincidence for the apple, and probably for the seafood too. If it's of any interest, I think I've had food poisoning more than anyone else I know, and I've never had a residual cough from it.

Hope you feel better soon.

[bmccasland]

Shootingstar - go see an allergist, and until you do, avoid eating the seafood, or avoid eating at that restaurant. You need to be checked for food allergies. Either that or you had food poisoning. Most cases of "stomach flu" is not influenza virus but mild cases of food poisoning. I had full blow anaphalytic shock, and had my sorry butt hauled out of a restaurant by ambulance last year. The ER doc said that it was one of two things - I have a food allergy, or I'm allergic to something my food ate. When I was tested for allergies to all sorts of seafoods - I had a seafood paella as well - I did not show positive for any of the ingredients in the paella and they tested me (a blood sample) for ALL of them. Which leads my doctors to believe the ER Doc's theory - it was the sea bed the seafood came from - so we'll probably never know what exactly I'm allergic to. So I no longer eat squid, squid ink, or octapus, or any dish that contains them, all the other ingredients in the paella I've eaten frequently without trouble. And I don't try anything new if I'm more than 20 minutes away from a hospital. Takes all the fun out of trying new things too.

While you system is weakened that makes you vunerable to random bugs, which doesn't help matters.

Hope you're feeling better!