Food poisoning - what to do ?

Grant said:
so, just came out of a 2nd round for the year.
this was thanks to a pork chop (checkers).
previous was a pie from checkers (pieman)
although both came out of checkers - checkers is not responsible for what may go on in pieman's facilities - that same pie could have come from a number of other outlets.

we have all had food poisoning - many times, but this pork chop was the crowning glory for me.
it went above and beyond any previous experience, to the extent my gp suggested hospital admission with iv antiboitic & hydration.
i managed to dodge that bullet tho.

but what does one do to manage food poisoning ?
1st off, one needs to get rid of the toxic substance - either from above or below.
some ppl reach for products like immodium - which slows down the "spuitpoep" etc - but at the same time will slow down the body getting rid of the toxic substance that started it all.

buscopan is excellent for dealing with the abdominal pain that goes with food poisoning.

in severe cases one can resort to an antibiotic - but in severe cases whatever we may drink often comes up again within 15mins - so there goes the antibiotics

in all, one is like a hamster trapped in a wheel.

i'm curious as to how others deal with this - there seems no fast way out of it, but grinning and bearing things for 24hrs or so
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MASSEGAT... I am on the back end of a battle of the bug.

Friday night we had steak with mushrooms (no... they weren't sourced from the back garden, but may as well have been). My wife was complaining throughout Saturday about a sore stomach and such. By Saturday evening my stomach was feeling bloated too... I went to bed early because I was feeling _shitty_ , with a fever.

Sunday morning I woke up feeling green.

I spent the day in ... meditation ... upon the porcelain throne. By the evening I was both releasing spirits from the back door and calling out others from the top. Monday morning checkers sixty 60 arrived as if sent from some higher being (thank you wifey), with Lucozade, Energade and rehydrate.

Sunday morning I weighed in at 95.4kg (lowest in a while... yay me)... Morning I woke up with a dry mouth and weighing in at 91.9kg... I now officially have specs like a vehicle... wet and dry weights. lol. But that meant I lost a LOT of fluid through the various communing with the spirits at deaths door.

I've spent the last two days working through the supplies that sixty 60 dropped off and finally don't feel like I'm about to cross over and talk to everyone via John Edwards.
 
We eat a lot of pork and chicken and never were anyone in our house sick. I seriously wonder if people's houses or something are dirty or they just don't know how to cook if you get sick from your own cooking.
If the meat is really bad it will smell. So throw it away. If you cant smell anything and you cooked it properly, you cant get sick.
 
Don’t buy meat, fish chicken or prepared food from the Checkers. Is a good start.
 
@Grant when it's that bad I go to the ER. I've been a few times.. it's worth it.. usually you'll be fine once they've given you an IV and the good stuff via the IV
 
warrenpridgeon said:
MASSEGAT... I am on the back end of a battle of the bug.

Friday night we had steak with mushrooms (no... they weren't sourced from the back garden, but may as well have been). My wife was complaining throughout Saturday about a sore stomach and such. By Saturday evening my stomach was feeling bloated too... I went to bed early because I was feeling _shitty_ , with a fever.

Sunday morning I woke up feeling green.

I spent the day in ... meditation ... upon the porcelain throne. By the evening I was both releasing spirits from the back door and calling out others from the top. Monday morning checkers sixty 60 arrived as if sent from some higher being (thank you wifey), with Lucozade, Energade and rehydrate.

Sunday morning I weighed in at 95.4kg (lowest in a while... yay me)... Morning I woke up with a dry mouth and weighing in at 91.9kg... I now officially have specs like a vehicle... wet and dry weights. lol. But that meant I lost a LOT of fluid through the various communing with the spirits at deaths door.

I've spent the last two days working through the supplies that sixty 60 dropped off and finally don't feel like I'm about to cross over and talk to everyone via John Edwards.
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TL. DR
Just say it as it was... Called George and Satan on the white telephone.. we get it.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
I am currently on my 3rd day of spuitpoep. But nothing I can do about it, its from gout pills.
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The good ol cactus food ones (colchicine)? The treatment is basically "keep popping em until the gout pain stops or the spuitpoep starts" lol.

Are you taking anything else to help control your gout outside of treating it when it flares up?
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
We eat a lot of pork and chicken and never were anyone in our house sick. I seriously wonder if people's houses or something are dirty or they just don't know how to cook if you get sick from your own cooking.
If the meat is really bad it will smell. So throw it away. If you cant smell anything and you cooked it properly, you cant get sick.
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cant speak for anyone else, but my own kitchen is near sterile - i'm a little ocd on that.
even dishes - dishwasher temp is set to "inferno".

in this case, any potential smell etc, was well disguised
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warrenpridgeon said:
The good ol cactus food ones (colchicine)? The treatment is basically "keep popping em until the gout pain stops or the spuitpoep starts" lol.

Are you taking anything else to help control your gout outside of treating it when it flares up?
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Yes the old colchicine.
No my gout is to bad, it can't really be treated. Puricos does not work. Just drink Colchicine when its really bad.
 
Grant said:
ive gravitated a lot towards kosher of late - not out of health reasons, but food quality.
the local checkers has a massive kosher section + deli.
a chicken pie from kosher deli vs regular chicken pie are worlds apart.
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I meant figuratively...but yes even literally!
Of course you pay a heavy premium! Too heavy IMO.
 
Sometimes you just get so old that you have to void your bowels for a few hours.
 
Grant said:
cant speak for anyone else, but my own kitchen is near sterile - i'm a little ocd on that.
even dishes - dishwasher temp is set to "inferno".

in this case, any potential smell etc, was well disguised
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Still if its cooked properly you cant get sick. All the bacteria will die. Food must be really rotten for it to have toxins that cant be killed by cooking.
 
EmmanuelGoldstein said:
@Grant when it's that bad I go to the ER. I've been a few times.. it's worth it.. usually you'll be fine once they've given you an IV and the good stuff via the IV
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ive developed an aversion for hospitals - cardiac issues, heart attacks & surgeries - so i to try to avoid as far as reasonably possible.

very bizarrely, when the spuitpoep & upchucking came to an end, i had the munchies - and was thirsty.
the munchies - a craving for kfc.
ordered kfc and cola from mr.d

ate the greasy crispy skin off the outside of the kfc, guzzled 2 x 300ml cans of coke - - and a couple of hours later i was up and about again
 
Grant said:
ive developed an aversion for hospitals - cardiac issues, heart attacks & surgeries - so i to try to avoid as far as reasonably possible.

very bizarrely, when the spuitpoep & upchucking came to an end, i had the munchies - and was thirsty.
the munchies - a craving for kfc.
ordered kfc and cola from mr.d

ate the greasy crispy skin off the outside of the kfc, guzzled 2 x 300ml cans of coke - - and a couple of hours later i was up and about again
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Understood... don't blame you
The craving for KFCis because you needed energy.
 
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