What was the worst food poisoning you ever experienced?

Wanderer2010 · 23-12-2018 01:44PM #1

With all the warnings about the best way to reheat food and prepare the Christmas dinner carefully, have you ever had a really bad case of food poisoning and how long did it last? For me, I had a Dominos pizza about 5 years ago and I suspect the oil was rancid- literally 10 minutes after the pizza my stomach cramped and shortly after I started into 2 solid days of vomiting from both ends, fever and nausea and severe dehydration, never forget it.

Would it be too cynical to think that a lot of these cases of mass food poisonings could easily be caused by a bitter minimum wage worker who had enough of being treated like crap for crap money and decided to wipe his arse all over the chicken or bread board??

igCorcaigh · 23-12-2018 01:47PM

After first time eating octopus in Cuba.
Vomiting for hours. Horrible feeling.

Have no idea pizza could make you sick... Bad chicken?

Harika · 23-12-2018 01:53PM

I think those are caused by low skilled workers that were not trained properly. Don't think you will poisen a customer but instead steal or destroy equipment on purpose.
Worst case of food poisening when young. We had no money so everything was ate, even questionable things. That ended in three people having to vomit and **** at the same time with only one toilet. At some point ****ting your soul out while occasionally turning around to puke. Great times.

Fighting Tao · 23-12-2018 01:55PM

Tads Steakhouse beside Macy’s in NY. Had it on the second day of my trip and was in bed sick for the next 3 days. I took one bite and knew it wasn’t right and left the rest.

BrianD3 · 23-12-2018 01:57PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

With all the warnings about the best way to reheat food and prepare the Christmas dinner carefully, have you ever had a really bad case of food poisoning and how long did it last? For me, I had a Dominos pizza about 5 years ago and I suspect the oil was rancid- literally 10 minutes after the pizza my stomach cramped and shortly after I started into 2 solid days of vomiting from both ends, fever and nausea and severe dehydration, never forget it.

Probably nothing to do with the pizza or rancid oil or any form of food poisoning - much more likely to have been the winter vomiting bug picked up a day or two earlier.

howdoyouknow · 23-12-2018 02:00PM

BrianD3 wrote:

Probably nothing to do with the pizza or rancid oil or any form of food poisoning - much more likely to have been the winter vomiting bug picked up a day or two earlier.

Says Brian Domino

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly · 23-12-2018 02:01PM

Prawn curry in Borneo.

Violent diarrhoea with simultaneous vomiting onto the bathroom floor.

Graces7 · 23-12-2018 02:07PM

Harika wrote: »

I think those are caused by low skilled workers that were not trained properly. Don't think you will poisen a customer but instead steal or destroy equipment on purpose.
Worst case of food poisening when young. We had no money so everything was ate, even questionable things. That ended in three people having to vomit and **** at the same time with only one toilet. At some point ****ting your soul out while occasionally turning around to puke. Great times.

Ah now; the technique is to sit on the loo with a bucket in your hands. :rolleyes: Did that for two days when I got the winter vomiting bug years ago

23-12-2018 02:07PM

I had food poisoning when I was 9 after a dodgy Chinese restaurant. Was very sick for a few days (as were the whole family) but then after about a week I ended up having a seizure and passing out! Think I was so just so f*cked after not eating for a week as I was too scared of vomiting. Ended up going to hospital but was grand after.

wally1990 · 23-12-2018 02:10PM

salmonella

Don't read on as this is vulgar if you don't wish to.!!!

Went to a Chinese in Alicante the night before I was flying home to Ireland.

Food tasted fine.

The next morning my stomach was upset and I starting getting 'the runs'

That Continued every 2 3 hours.

Got to the airport and my stomach/body basically emptied itself and I was thinking how am I going to last this flight.

At this point I thought I had a bug and just blamed it on the Chinese.

Made it threw the flight.

Got into Cork Airport and ran straight to the toilet and sat for 45 mins as now nothing but watery liquid came through.

No solids if you will.

My stomach was f*cked up at this point

Got home and was due to have work the next day.

When I got in the door, I felt like my stomach was absolutely messed up.

I sat down on the side of my bed and Bang!!!!!!!! My stomach felt I got a kick into the sides by a horse.

I fell to the floor and held my sides and thought what the hell is going on

Ran to the toilet and had major. Major cramping and nothing coming out!!!

I was just cramping.

It felt like someone took a part of my inside and was twisting tighter and tightening until nothing could bend anymore.

I had no solid or watery stuff coming out but massive pains!! Wouldn't wish it on anyone

Called in sick to work because of the pain and because I actually couldn't get off the toilet.

I rang the GP who said to come. Straight down.

Did a stool test and went to the mercy.

They rang back in 24hr and confirmed salmonella poisoning.

Got an antibiotic for it. (tablet's)

All.meanwhile I was literally ****ting brown water or nothing at all but feeling like I had to but was just cramping.

The horse was kicking my insides non stop.

I was on my bed curled up in a ball crying and I'm a 28 yo man

I never felt pain like it. I wished for the cramps to stop!!! I call them cramps but my insides were Being torned apart and bent and twisted.

My anus was raw from cleaning myself too.

Eventually it went away.

Ordeal lasted about 48 hours

I never ever will. Set food in any Chinese again.

It is a mental block I have now.

bee06 · 23-12-2018 02:14PM

I’ve only got food poisoning once from fish at a restaurant in the U.K. I was over for work and spent the whole evening and night puking and then had to go into work the next day and get a flight home. Not fun. I didn’t eat anything except toast for 5 days after.

dhaughton99 · 23-12-2018 02:16PM

Only time I got a bad one was from a Dunne’s tuna salad. A honestly thought I was dying. Lasted 3 days. Never again.

TommyKnocker · 23-12-2018 02:19PM

It is unlikely that you would get poisoned by something eaten after only 10 minutes. It takes 2-4 hours for the stomach to breakdown the food and any "poison" to hit the system. Anything that could cause vomiting that quickly after ingesting should have tasted really bad, so should have been a warning not to eat it, unless your taste buds where compromised in some way.

As said by a previous poster, more likely to have been a vomiting bug picked up earlier or whatever you ate in the hours before you had the pizza.

So far, touch wood, I have not suffered food poisoning that I remember in my 55 years on the planet.

vkus6mt3y8zg2q · 23-12-2018 02:23PM

dhaughton99 wrote: »

Only time I got a bad one was from a Dunne’s tuna salad. A honestly thought I was dying. Lasted 3 days. Never again.

Never again going to have food poisoning? That's handy.

Fighting Tao · 23-12-2018 02:24PM

TommyKnocker wrote: »

It is unlikely that you would get poisoned by something eaten after only 10 minutes. It takes 2-4 hours for the stomach to breakdown the food and any "poison" to hit the system. Anything that could cause vomiting that quickly after ingesting should have tasted really bad, so should have been a warning not to eat it, unless your taste buds where compromised in some wayt.

Yep. Exactly why I stopped after one bite. It was rancid.

Hopefully you avoid food poisoning in the future. It’s no fun.

23-12-2018 02:26PM

Siem Reap. Three days. Awful.

r93kaey5p2izun · 23-12-2018 02:35PM

I got Salmonella while working on a farm - unsure if from the animals directly or from food provided. Probably directly. It lasted 3 weeks and I was extremely sick. I also developed reactive arthritis afterwards.

I also got food poisoning on Christmas Day a few years ago. Started vomiting around 5am on Stephen's Day. Lasted about 48 hours and nowhere near as bad as the previous time. But I had to cancel a trip to London and I'll never eat stuffing again.

The Bishop Basher · 23-12-2018 02:43PM

We were all poisoned by ice cream cones when I was quite young. I still remember it to this day. A full week of vomiting my guts up. My mother was fine I’ll we all got better then she went down with it. The human body is incredible like that.

Gave me a life long fear of puking and a serous aversion to ice cream cones.

zapitastas · 23-12-2018 02:56PM

First night drunk in Thailand I stopped off to eat from some street vendors. Spicy stuff and I lashed it out if it. At some stage I woke up that night and felt as if someone was stabbing me in the stomach and twisting the knife. The pain was horrific and it lasted about two days . I crawled from the bed to the bathroom and was dripping with sweat, couldn't work out if it was the stifling humidity or a result of the bug. A couple of times I thought I might actually pass out and possibly die. The horror

Church on Tuesday · 23-12-2018 03:04PM

Oh boy.

About seven years ago had a pork chop that was left in the fridge, no one was in the house, so it was the only thing to eat. Looked OK.

After about two days I started throwing up, and well, continued to throw up. For nearly a month.

After about two weeks of this **** I went to the doctor and he gave me an injection, for nearly another two I continued to violently vomit so much I actually got a sore throat.

I would only have soup and bread, then before bed time I would vomit.

Can only conclude that there was a prolonged refractory period for my stomach, Have never eaten a chop again and never will.

Hercule Poirot · 23-12-2018 03:13PM

Myself and the missus had meatballs that we think on reflection we may not have cooked all the way through - cue 2/3 days of vomiting and pure liquid, watery diarrhoea - went to the doctor and he confirmed it was food poisoning, basically told us to drink lots of fluids and ride it out, another day or two and we came out the other side

Lesson learned the hard way, now we always cut meat in half to check it's cooked all the way through, even in restaurants

Sciprio · 23-12-2018 03:33PM

I can't really remember but i remember one night before bed i ate an entire box of jaffa cakes and washed it down with milk and woke up with cramps and the milk curdling in my stomach and puking up for a few hours. I haven't eaten jaffa cakes since.

Paddy Cow · 23-12-2018 04:12PM

I ate some chicken as a teenager. About 4 hours later I started to feel ill. Then the vomiting and diarrhoea hit. I got a headache so bad I couldn't lift my head to drink and got my mother to go and buy me a baby bottle to drink out of

It passed in a few days but it was awful.

Not food poisoning but my sister got an awful dose of the 24hr vomiting bug last Christmas. It was just the two of us and she was fine Christmas Eve. Christmas morning she felt like crap and started intermittently vomiting, followed by bouts on the toilet. She got so bad at one stage she was on the toilet while simultaneously puking into a bucket! It was absolutely horrendous for her. We were supposed to visit relatives but had to cancel. She couldn't even look at the Christmas dinner but apart from feeling tired the next day, was fine.

Paddy Cow · 23-12-2018 04:14PM

Sciprio wrote: »

I can't really remember but i remember one night before bed i ate an entire box of jaffa cakes and washed it down with milk and woke up with cramps and the milk curdling in my stomach and puking up for a few hours. I haven't eaten jaffa cakes since.

I love fried onions and one time I cooked a steak with a shed load of onions. A few hours later I was in absolute bits. My abdomen was in agony with trapped wind. I imagine that's how babies with colic feel and I can see now why they scream for hours. It was absolute torture and taught me not to be such a greedy pig

23-12-2018 04:16PM

I was hospitalized in a certain ME country a few years ago with severe dehydration as a consequence of food poisoning that caused a few days of double ended hell. I couldn't keep water down and started to black out. Once your electrolytes get screwed up it's a dangerous situation but I was working in a hospital at the time so I got immediate attention. The stomach pains were agonizing and the situation was not helped by the riots following political unrest right outside the hospital, the sound of distant explosions, and being all alone in a foreign country. I lost 13lbs in about ten days and was weak for a long while afterwards.

It wasn't much fun.

whisky_galore · 23-12-2018 04:16PM

Croatia.
Was told not to go to the Albanian owned restaurants, thought because Croatians don't really like Albanians.
Went to one of the restaurants, two hours or so later literally exploded from every orifice...

rossie1977 · 23-12-2018 04:22PM

Probably not worst but most annoying was on a 12 hour flight to Cape Town.

nthclare · 23-12-2018 04:33PM

A garlic chip in an establishment in Cahir Co Tipperary.

Ruined my trip to Kilkenny, 3 days mostly in bed, luckily the person I was visiting was empathic and good to me.

sk8erboii · 23-12-2018 04:38PM

Cant remember what i ate but I remember thinking ‘this is it this is how i die’ severe chest tightness, cramps, lightheaded, puking etc. lasted for one evening but i thought it was a stroke or heart attack lol

sk8erboii · 23-12-2018 04:40PM

sk8erboii wrote: »

Cant remember what i ate but I remember thinking ‘this is it this is how i die’ severe chest tightness, cramps, lightheaded, puking etc. lasted for one evening but i thought it was a stroke or heart attack lol

Oh and i was in holidays in the Philippines 6 years ago. Went to a secluded tourist resort area. Saw some oysters and thought i eat them raw here all the time so i went up and shucked a few shells.

Shat out weird gel for like a month

nthclare · 23-12-2018 04:43PM

sk8erboii wrote: »

Cant remember what i ate but I remember thinking ‘this is it this is how i die’ severe chest tightness, cramps, lightheaded, puking etc. lasted for one evening but i thought it was a stroke or heart attack lol

It's horrific isn't it, I know that feeling.
Like a whitener multiplied by 10

What was the worst food poisoning you ever experienced?

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