It sucks being sick

Dave!

I ate some wierd fajita thing for lunch today and I haven't been feelin the best ever since

Managed to make it through the workday, but as soon as I got home I puked and haven't stopped since

I've got no food left in me, but when I try to rehydrate by drinkin water, I throw that up about 5 minutes later! :mad:

Any tips? Commisseration? Advice on how to spell commisseration?

Thrill

This might not be much help but "see a doctor".


EDIT: A few people i know would recommend you go to your local chemist and ask
for advice. Their supposed to be really good and can save you spending
an hour or two waiting for a doc. Just remembered that nugget.

Huggles

DaveMcG wrote:

I ate some wierd fajita thing for lunch today and I haven't been feelin the best ever since

Managed to make it through the workday, but as soon as I got home I puked and haven't stopped since

I've got no food left in me, but when I try to rehydrate by drinkin water, I throw that up about 5 minutes later! :mad:

Any tips? Commisseration? Advice on how to spell commisseration?

Ouch! Wait till the trots kick in. IMO your suffering from food poisoning. You can try and stay it out and drink buckets of water but you probably should go to the doc, especially if there is chicken involved.

iFight

Ahhh, food poisoning sucks, really bad. Probably go with the doctor option too.

CathyMoran

I had those symptoms for 3 plus months (was not food poisoning though, was something more serious), it is not pleasant, I used to bring bags with me everywhere in case I puked. If I were you I would go to a doctor to get something to stop you feeling ill or at least get medical advice.

ninebeanrows

I doubt theres much need to see a doctor if ya know what it came from.
Especially seen as its Saturday night. I wouldnt worry too much about that.
( i mean of course go to the doctor :cool: )

The best thing about that sort of illness though is that you KNOW that in 5 or 6 hours you'll be over it. I've had many a case of the pukies during my life ( a travel sickness sufferer!!), its the worst form of pain the body can be put through bar extremely serious injuries etc. I tend when i get food poisoning or travel sickness to starve the body of absolutely everything even water, jus sup little tiny bits of water if your dehydrating, and remember when your wretching up that bile:D that in a few hours you'll be through it!!

Good Luck! at least it makes u appreciate been not sick!

Fajitas!

I'm dying sick myself, as is my mum and one of my mates... And I have to go do photography at a gig on top of it all...Anyways, back on topic...

Loads of sleep and water.

And no orange juice or milk.

Heh...fajitas...

Ruu_Old

I cannot afford to be sick, 8 hour flight tomorrow night. Have to get up at 5am to get the Amtrak to Chicago.:(

Whenever I'm sick which is not often, I just try to sleep and hope I feel better when I wake up. Alkaseltzer ftw. Ice lollies are meant to be good to, the fruity ones.

Scraggs

DaveMcG wrote:

Any tips? Commisseration? Advice on how to spell commisseration?

Ah poor aul' Dave, take motillium perhaps? [not medical advice]


oh and at teh risk of seeming pedantic [even though you did ask], its two m's one s:)

Dave!

Thanks for the help everyone! Support = helpful! I've nothing left to throw up for the time being -- yay! Ran out of bile too, lol.

I took a motillium earlier Scraggs, but I'm not sure if I puked it up or not Goin to bed in a few minutes, so I'll take another then. Danke!

CathyMoran

DaveMcG wrote:

Thanks for the help everyone! Support = helpful! I've nothing left to throw up for the time being -- yay! Ran out of bile too, lol.

I took a motillium earlier Scraggs, but I'm not sure if I puked it up or not Goin to bed in a few minutes, so I'll take another then. Danke!

Just be really careful re-introducing foods again, 7up with the fizz gone is probably one of the best fluids that you should try and reintroduce when you are up for it (but not quite yet).

Mossy Monk

yes, being sick blows. join the club

pepper

DaveMcG wrote:

I ate some wierd fajita thing for lunch today and I haven't been feelin the best ever since

Managed to make it through the workday, but as soon as I got home I puked and haven't stopped since

I've got no food left in me, but when I try to rehydrate by drinkin water, I throw that up about 5 minutes later! :mad:

Any tips? Commisseration? Advice on how to spell commisseration?

Id say- sleep-sex- and maybe some choc- oh no wait thats my remedy for me!!Am sounds like food poisioning(bulla bos smartypants) so dont ingest anything-Just wait for the bad food to pass and ull be ok

Can i have some sympathy too-Ive a cold *sniff sniff*

Santa Claus

The worst thing I've found about food poisoning is that once you get it, you seem to pick it up easier after that.
At least thats the case with me...had it 5 times in past 3 or 4 years.

I find Coke helps (flat if possible). It was invented originally for upset stomachs after all !

admiralofthefleet

somebody above said no orange juice but orange juice is essential, you need vitamin c to boost your body

embee

Hi OP,

When I was pregnant and had the dreaded morning sickness, I used to eat ginger nut biscuits. Ginger in anything will help settle your stomach.

Sad Professor

I had a stomach/vomiting bug a month ago, which only lasted 24 hours thankfully. Everyone's different but I find starving it out is your best bet. Just have plenty of water and rest.

padi89

Do NOT drink loads of water , unless you want to continue wretching all day, just take tiny sips when you feel your mouth is dry.When you feel better you can take on more fluids but gradually.You can buy diaoralite(if thats how its spelt) in the chemist and take that.

Dave!

Thanks for the help folks!

Woke up this morning with the DRYEST mouth in the world! Thank god the stomach is settled a bit, I've been sipping water and I'm feelin a bit better

Won't be goin out tonight though!

User45701

DaveMcG wrote:

Any tips? Commisseration? Advice on how to spell commisseration?

Firefox 2.0!

I was sick like that but i was actually worried at one point i had light food poisoning like you but i had the flu with it and i was bad, i mean bad

at one point i did a massive sneeze and then my brain heated up and i passed out... (was a tad worried that the ye old tumor was having a go at me, just like lefty)

Lust4Life

Posted by DaveMcG:
Won't be goin out tonight though!

Smart thinking! Continue to take it easy and fill your body with healthy fluids cuz you are probably dehydrated after all of that.

Oh, and plenty of hugs if available will always help make you feel better!

Faith

Agh, I live in fear of getting food poisoning! I had it onve, when I was about 8 and on holidays in the Carribean, and I remember it being HELL. I couldn't stop throwing up, I vommed all over my bed, had the trots, and it lasted all night. I think everything stopped after about 12 hours, but I was still shaky the next day and had to stay in bed.

I've now developed a slight fear of vomiting and will do everything in my power to avoid it. Now I really wish I didn't have that last drink last night .

faceman

DaveMcG wrote:

I ate some wierd fajita thing for lunch today and I haven't been feelin the best ever since

If its food poisioning then the fajitas didnt do it. Food poisioning takes 24 hours to materialize AFTER you eat something bad. So count back 24 hours from when you felt sick.

It might be a bug. If so doctor cant fix you im afraid, you will have to see it through for 48 hours.

Fajitas!

Ugh...I feel like crap, both my parents have some virus, my mum spent the night in hospital with it, my dad's getting just as bad.

And my laptop is feiced. Lost loads of stuff.

Grrr*cough*

Fajitas!

faceman wrote:

If its food poisioning then the fajitas didnt do it. Food poisioning takes 24 hours to materialize AFTER you eat something bad.

Depends on the type of food poisoning tbh, it can come into course after 6 hours, speaking from experience.

Dave!

faceman wrote:

If its food poisioning then the fajitas didnt do it. Food poisioning takes 24 hours to materialize AFTER you eat something bad. So count back 24 hours from when you felt sick.

It might be a bug. If so doctor cant fix you im afraid, you will have to see it through for 48 hours.

Didnt know that... I just assumed it was food poisoning, since I hadn't eaten one of those fajitas before, and felt bad after it. Hmmm.

Well I'm feeling a good bit better now thankfully. I've gotten rid of everything in my body, lol. So I feel so weak and fragile! And I'm bloody freezing! Was sitting beside a heater thing for about 10 minutes.

I'm on the road to recovery though

J.R.HARTLEY

Santa Claus wrote:

I find Coke helps (flat if possible). It was invented originally for upset stomachs after all !

yes and no, it was invented for stomach problems but apparently the additive that helped was the cocaine which was removed in 1906 or so, so you're backing a placebo there buddy.;)
i'll tell you what works for me after puking, Ginger Ale, my nurse neighbour told me they give it to the old folks in hospital, i've been using it for the last two and a half years now after chemo and other treatments along with prescribed motillium and it works great for me, but it tastes like **** to begin with, but i'd drink a vat of it now

upthere

I get a nice prescription of controlled drugs for sickness coz I'm special so I feel good when I'm sick

ninebeanrows

faceman wrote:

If its food poisioning then the fajitas didnt do it. Food poisioning takes 24 hours to materialize AFTER you eat something bad. So count back 24 hours from when you felt sick.

It might be a bug. If so doctor cant fix you im afraid, you will have to see it through for 48 hours.

Are you sure about that? I have no facts to back this up but im almost sure if you eat something bad it can start affecting you after 6 hours even less perhaps. I remember having an awful MacDonalds and feeling sick like 4 or 5 hours later. And i would be 99% sure it was the MacDonalds!

Fajitas!

Weathercheck, I think your right...I got salmonella before, just over 6 hours after eating chicken from a deli...I hadn't eaten anything that's known for carrying salmonella in 24 hours before that...

gary the great

faceman wrote:

If its food poisioning then the fajitas didnt do it. Food poisioning takes 24 hours to materialize AFTER you eat something bad. So count back 24 hours from when you felt sick.

It might be a bug. If so doctor cant fix you im afraid, you will have to see it through for 48 hours.

Not true. I studied Environmental Health for 4 years and depending on the bacteria it can kick in after as little as 2 hours. In fact, a lot of food posioning is caused by some sort of virus, cant remember the name of it, which can kick in really qiuckly.

Working as an EHO id get calls on a monday morning from people saying "i got food posioned on Saturday night", id ask what they ate and they tell me "it must of been one of the bottles of wine i had, it must of been a bad bottle". Eh its called a hangover you mutant.

I must say though anyone thats had bad bad food posioning, would agree that it is the worst you will ever feel in your life. Ive had my share of injuries and sicknesses, but the time i got food posioing in Cambodia takes the biscuit. COld sweats, constant vomiting and heaving when theres nothing left in your stomach, cramps, trots, hallucinations, its unreal, definetly the worst thing ive ever felt in my life.

MrJoeSoap

Ruu wrote:

Have to get up at 5am to get the Amtrak to Chicago.:(

Ah the memories.

To the OP, you may be (or have been) physically sick, but at least you weren't sick of Shell to Sea. I hear thats a horrible dose!

faceman

gary the great wrote:

Not true. I studied Environmental Health for 4 years and depending on the bacteria it can kick in after as little as 2 hours. In fact, a lot of food posioning is caused by some sort of virus, cant remember the name of it, which can kick in really qiuckly.

Ask your gp the next time you visit.

gary the great

I dont need to ask the doctor, this is what i do 9-5 monday to friday, protect people from getting food posioned. I also work closely with doctors. I know how it works, more so than my GP.

And to clarify if you feel ill soon after eating it, it usually means the toxic microbial products from the organisms are making you feel ill, rather than the actual organism.


Depending on the agent causing the illness, the incubation period (time it takes the illness to show symptoms) can be anywhere from 1 - 6 hours, or in some rare cases weeks, months or even years.

More than likely this is a case of Staph Aureus, the most common type of food posioning but at the same time one of the weakest, if you got a bout of Salmonella, Camplylobacter or Ecoli 0157:H7 you'd really know about it

CathyMoran

gary the great wrote:

I dont need to ask the doctor, this is what i do 9-5 monday to friday, protect people from getting food posioned. I also work closely with doctors. I know how it works, more so than my GP.

And to clarify if you feel ill soon after eating it, it usually means the toxic microbial products from the organisms are making you feel ill, rather than the actual organism.


Depending on the agent causing the illness, the incubation period (time it takes the illness to show symptoms) can be anywhere from 1 - 6 hours, or in some rare cases weeks, months or even years.

More than likely this is a case of Staph Aureus, the most common type of food posioning but at the same time one of the weakest, if you got a bout of Salmonella, Camplylobacter or Ecoli 0157:H7 you'd really know about it

This used to be my specialty a few years ago too - did a Food Science Masters but have not practiced in years, is useful knowing what foods are linked with different bacteria etc, I loved it. Ecoli 0157:H7, now that is a bad one...

OP - hope that you are feeling better now.

Dave!

I'm at 90% now, 100% in the morrow

Thankya!

Pipp

This thread has me wondering if I should go to the doctor:eek:

I came back from a tour of Egypt there last monday, went from Cairo to Luxor, to lake nasser and then to the red sea and my tummy was just tickety boo until those last few days in the hotel at the red sea when the dreaded trots set in. The journey home (three seperate flights) was less than pleasant and Im sure I should have died from the amount of immodium I took.
What has me worried now is that Im still not right, still having cramps and still not eating properly. Should I go to the doctor?? :eek:

I hate tummy realted sickness, theres nothing as bad.

Jimoslimos

gary the great wrote:

Not true. I studied Environmental Health for 4 years and depending on the bacteria it can kick in after as little as 2 hours. In fact, a lot of food posioning is caused by some sort of virus, cant remember the name of it, which can kick in really qiuckly.

Caliciviruses and Norwalk-type viruses usually cause foodborne viral illnesses. Rotaviruses also causes diaorrhea in young children particularly. Although food is only used as a vector into the human gastrointestinal system since unlike most bacteria they don't replicate on food. Therefore there needs to be a high enough quantity of the virus on the food to begin with. Viral gastroenteritis tends to be contracted mostly through eating oysters, mussels or other filter-feeders since they tend to accumulate the viruses in high quantities from dirty water (sewage effulent).

macroman

I've found that eating something after you've emptied your stomach can cure 'dodgy stomach syndrome' . Even if it's only a slice of toast you still need something to line your stomach, also load up on fruit juices and 7up, and get plenty of rest.

faceman

gary the great wrote:

I dont need to ask the doctor, this is what i do 9-5 monday to friday, protect people from getting food posioned. I also work closely with doctors. I know how it works, more so than my GP.

That very statement renders your college boy arguments null and void.

If you want to prove otherwise, publish medical sources to support your claims.

Faith

You waited a week to make that point? For fúcks sake.

gary the great

faceman wrote:

That very statement renders your college boy arguments null and void.

If you want to prove otherwise, publish medical sources to support your claims.

I often have a GP ring me up asking me for infomation etc

faceman

gary the great wrote:

I often have a GP ring me up asking me for
infomation etc

Im not knocking you or anything but you're fairly young so i have my doubts. But then again not all doctors are as good as they should be i suppose.

Reganio 2

Yes its a pain being sick. My asthma came back last year and was dying with chest pains luckely it was christmas and that cheered me up. But now I have a cold and when I get a cold my asthma kicks in and I am coughing constantly also have a blocked nose and can hardly breath have had it for 2 weeks and dosn't show any signs of going away. Which does not help when I am trying to play football. Any time I start to do anything I struggle to breath. So consider yourself lucky that it only lasts a couple of days.

Dave!

Might wanna see your GP bout that if it's a prolonged thing!

He might give you some steroids or somethin.

Umiq88

Been sick sucks i just got sick the other day for no apparant reason at all

From what i can remember
Drank a litre of orange

about an hour later puked the whole litre and remain of light dinner all over the carpet. Felt grand after had some water to wash down the sick puked the water back up didnt take anything for a while. Then went to sleep woke up around 2 feel thirsty drank that couldnt get back to sleep went downstairs threw up the water in the sink took some gaviscon got to sleep grand then woke up feeling fine drunk 7up all day started eatin after lunch and not a bother

For those that arent bothered reading that i think the best thing is

If your feeling sick do your best to get sick then make sure you get it all out.
Take something to line your stomach in my case gaviscon but maybe a slice of bread or a wheatabix or something.
Then just sleep it off and start on the 7up when you wake up

Dooom

Fuppin cold weather's got me inside with a hot water bottle and about 5 jumpers. It's a chill type thing I've gotten, but I only had one on Thursday ffs! Crappy vulnerable body.

Mossy Monk

****ing pisses me off when in a busy pub you see arseholes dying of flu. do they not consider that they may spread their ****ing illness. "i couldn't stay in on a Saturday, there is nothing 'sneeze' on the telly 'cough.'" stupid ****