Bodily Functions (Culinary Disaster pt. II)

[AlohaDawg]

Question from the disease guy:

1) What else did you eat besides the chicken in the preceding 72 hours?

2) How long between eating the chicken and nausea? How long to vomiting? Were there other GI symptoms?

3) Did your man eat the chicken? Did he get sick?

4) Was the chicken frozen, then thawed or bought fresh?

I ask because 12 hours is about the fastest I can imagine a common foodborne illness hitting you after ingestion. Salmonella, Shigella, E. Coli, Botulism, Campylobacter all usually take at least a day to really get you good and sick - although most cases are 'mild' they usually involve more than vomiting - bloody, loose stools are common.

Also, given your weakened immune system, it would seem to me to indicate that you would have more than a mild case on average - but, if your boyfriend didn't get sick as well, there is a dose-response relationship at work also....a tiny dose could be enough to sicken you.

But you are OK and that is what is important. I never cook meat anymore without my probe thermometer. It's awesome, measures the center and everything is perfectly medium rare and minimum safe temperatures are always reached. I would suggest this to anyone who might be potentially more sensitive to bacteria.

PS Post your Tandoori chicken recipe in the Kitchen; I LOVES me some tandoori chicken and we make that and chicken tikka every chance we get.

PPS Health Department here is investigating three cases of locally acquired cholera. That is pretty rare - there have only been two 'incidents' of locally acquired Cholera cases since the 1890's here, although some cases arrive here in boats or airplanes every year.

EDIT: for the love of god move this to the right thread!

Sorry...

[side_show]

Question from the disease guy:

1) What else did you eat besides the chicken in the preceding 72 hours?

2) How long between eating the chicken and nausea? How long to vomiting? Were there other GI symptoms?

3) Did your man eat the chicken? Did he get sick?

4) Was the chicken frozen, then thawed or bought fresh?

I ask because 12 hours is about the fastest I can imagine a common foodborne illness hitting you after ingestion. Salmonella, Shigella, E. Coli, Botulism, Campylobacter all usually take at least a day to really get you good and sick - although most cases are 'mild' they usually involve more than vomiting - bloody, loose stools are common.

Hurrah! More discussion about my body functions!  This does need to be move to another thread.  I'm still horribly sick, but have an appointment with my Doctor tomorrow for a totally unrelated reasons thyroid and arthritis test results.

1) The preceding 72 hours included eating at several family functions related to my guy - everyone ate the same stuff as me, but no one got sick.

2) After eating the chicken, nausea about 5 hours later, vomit 6 hours later.  Other symptoms: headache, and the runs.  All symtoms continue today, the third full day of ickiness.

3) No he didn't eat any of the said chicken.  We both previously got food poisoning about a year ago from a restaurant, and he only got sick the next day, where as I was sick for over a week, and I haven't been the same since - constant heartburn, and an intolerance to overly greasy foods.

4) The chicken was bough fresh the day before it was prepared.


As for the recipe, I don't ever want to even think about Tandoori right now, and since I clearly don't know how to cook it right, lets just not go there.[/quote]

[AlohaDawg]

Well, like you said in the other thread, stay hydrated and best of luck. Everyone's different, so you might just have grabbed up some salmonella or something. It took over with the quickness, whatever it was.

[jay-ell]

If you're having sharp, shooting pain in your stomach or what AlohaDawg so politely referred to as "bloody, loose stool," go to the hospital.  I had a "mild" case of salmonella poisioning about five years ago that I wrote off as the 'flu.  Three days later, I was in the ER being diagnosed with bacterial colitis.  It was without a doubt the single most unpleasant experience of my entire life.  I was on Cipro for ten days.  

So, seeing a doctor might not be a bad idea at this point.

[St_Zartan]

it might be salmonella

go to the hospital

And what a commentary on modern society that you are having to hear this admittedly sound advice on an Internet message board.

About a comic strip.

About depressed dogs and a retarded otter.

[AugustWest]

it might be salmonella

go to the hospital

And what a commentary on modern society that you are having to hear this admittedly sound advice on an Internet message board.

About a comic strip.

About depressed dogs and a retarded otter.

Dude, as a wise man (OK, it was Sonny Curtis) once said:

Love is all around, no need to waste it.
You can have this town, why don't you take it.

[side_show]

I have a doctors apointment today!  Hurrah, hurrah!  Thanks for all your kindness!  I'll be back Monday, and hopefully feelin' fine!

[St_Zartan]

Dude, as a wise man (OK, it was Sonny Curtis) once said:

Love is all around, no need to waste it.
You can have this town, why don't you take it.

Don't get me wrong. I love the love. It's just the context I find so strange and simultaneously fulfilling, like playing Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam.

And best wishes for a speedy recovery, side_show. It only just occurred to me to mention that, like myself, you may have discovered a dormant and violent allergy to golf. I think I was able to enjoy the links for about a year or so, in my Wild Youth, before suddenly even a whiff of a cleanly manicured green made me incredibly ill. No carts were involved, happily, but someone may have been playing a copy of The Road Warrior in the other room.

[side_show]

And best wishes for a speedy recovery, side_show. It only just occurred to me to mention that, like myself, you may have discovered a dormant and violent allergy to golf. I think I was able to enjoy the links for about a year or so, in my Wild Youth, before suddenly even a whiff of a cleanly manicured green made me incredibly ill. No carts were involved, happily, but someone may have been playing a copy of The Road Warrior in the other room.

Hmm, interesting.  I've been hitting the linksfor many years now, but certainly a lot more lately as an attempt to deal with the above mentioned arthritis problem.  Of course the amount of other perscription and over the counter meds I've ingested over the years have also taken their toll on my gut too.

I can understand why it seems a little bizarre to have me seeking advice on a messageboard about a comics, but I guess I've just been a member of the board so long, even the old dumbrella board, that it's like old friends.  Also remember I'm not just side_show, but a gal who has a great support system of friends and family in the real world, who've been kind enough to hold the hair back while puking, and bring in the Lysol, etc.

It's a weird modern age we live in when you can be someone's friend without seeing his or her face!

[Bozack]

...like playing Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam.

You know, Zart, you may think that nobody got that reference. You may think that no-one's keeping track. But I got it. Oh, I got it.


My name's Ernie Douglas....but my friends call me Chip.