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Again...really you really are sure it was food poisoning?
No, unless you get it tested by a lab, you can never be absolutely positive. However, I've had stomach illnesses before, and they felt quite different. I feel sick first, and then I start throwing up and can't eat anything afterwards.
In this case, I throw up first, and then start feeling sick, and then the fever and diarrhea start. I can feel my body rejecting whatever it is I ate, and the timing is always the same--2 to 3 hours after eating.
I threw up a bean burrito from Taco Bell many years ago. It was my first indication that I was pregnant. I have never returned to Taco Bell. Even the thought of it makes me queasy.
It's highly unlikely the piccalilli made you sick, especially if the illness was gone the next day. The acidic environment in pickled food, and the canning process, kills most anything.
Oh, thank you for your accurate diagnosis of my food poisoning 35 years after the fact. It's especially appreciated since you weren't even there, and you weren't the one who got sick.
Today I must ponder what I ever did without your netdoc skills, OG81.
It wasn't food poisoning, but I got very sick one night in college after drinking a bunch of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum. To this day, the thought of spiced rum makes me queasy .
Only once,in Bucharest in 1968, in a restaurant way above the class I normally eat at. Knocked me down for a couple of days Never at home, and never in third world street stalls, over more than 40 years. I've gotten the usual travelers diseases, but no way of knowing if it was from the food. That doesn't count having a single transient few hours, which maybe happened a couple of times, once I recall in Turkey and once in Bolivia. Nothing ever serious enough to cause vomiting or multiple runs of diarrhea.
Once, in Harlingen, Texas, my traveling companion and I were both up vomiting in the night after eating in a splurge-class restaurant., but we were fine by morning.
At home, I eat everything, no matter how old it is, unless it is bad enough to noticeably affect the taste, and bad parts need to be cut off. I never wash food products, I never wash dishes with soap, I only wipe off food preparation surfaces once a week or so.. Whatever is in the food, my body has learned to deal with it.
last thing was little caesars pizza about 4 years ago. throwing up every 20 minutes for 6 hours straight. SUCKED. NEVER again will i ever eat at little caesars
Only once,in Bucharest in 1968, in a restaurant way above the class I normally eat at. Knocked me down for a couple of days Never at home, and never in third world street stalls, over more than 40 years. I've gotten the usual travelers diseases, but no way of knowing if it was from the food. That doesn't count having a single transient few hours, which maybe happened a couple of times, once I recall in Turkey and once in Bolivia. Nothing ever serious enough to cause vomiting or multiple runs of diarrhea.
Once, in Harlingen, Texas, my traveling companion and I were both up vomiting in the night after eating in a splurge-class restaurant., but we were fine by morning.
At home, I eat everything, no matter how old it is, unless it is bad enough to noticeably affect the taste, and bad parts need to be cut off. I never wash food products, I never wash dishes with soap, I only wipe off food preparation surfaces once a week or so.. Whatever is in the food, my body has learned to deal with it.
whoa. You really must have excellent immunity, lol!
Does that include dishes from raw meat??
whoa. You really must have excellent immunity, lol!
Does that include dishes from raw meat??
Raw meat doesn't bother me a bit. I'm a bit careless in the kitchen and if I drop a chicken heart on the floor and and don't discover it until I feel it squish underfoot later, I just pop it in my mouth raw. When I buy liver, I drink the excess blood in the tub when I'm portioning it for freezing. For meals, I always cook my meat, but it's usually red inside.
Immunity is acquired by exposure, which is why so many people in America have so little immunity.
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whoa. You really must have excellent immunity, lol!
