Food Poisoning

[The Dragon Master]

Food poisoning is a common, usually mild, but sometimes deadly illness. Typical symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea that occur suddenly (within 48 hours) after consuming a contaminated food or drink. Depending on the contaminant, fever and chills, bloody stools, dehydration, and nervous system damage may follow. These symptoms may affect one person or a group of people who ate the same thing (called an outbreak).



Link: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/food_poisoning/article_em.htm



Has anyone had food poisoning?

 

[beowulf]

yes.....got salmanella after a weeks holiday in Tunisia............filthy hole of a country

.....ened up with 3 weeks off work afterwards

 

[Jazzy]

Yes. A group of us went to a newly opened Chinese resteraunt. We all went for their buffet lunch and we all got very sick that night. Several of us called the health department the next morning. They went out and to make a long story short the health department found several violations and the resteraunt was fined. The kicker to this story is that this place offered us all a free meal

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I dont think Ive ever got this but ive been sick and throwing up after eating something before.

 

[Kasynlie]

ive been sick and throwing up after eating something before.

Same here. I don't ever recall having actually been food poisoned.