Posted: 12/17/2005 4:49:17 PM EDT
Anyone have the flu yet. I was puking and crapping for 8 hours strait. Finally starting to feel better.
|
because I ate the same food and I didn't get sick.
|
A lot of the "flu" is food poisoning or something other. The flu lasts longer. I had the true FLU a few years ago. It came on VERY fast and it put me down for about 14 days. I was running a temp. of 105.4. Almost had to go to the hospital. Felt like I literally had been hit by a truck. I felt like SHEIT. no puking but absolutely no appetite. There is no mistaking it when you get the flu. |
I think you are talking about influenza which is respiratory. Stomach flu is gastroenteritis and bacterial food poisoning is relatively rare. Treatment clearly is different for each of the three. |
|
Now that I think back, I did have the flu once. We were getting shots in my unit and my buddy was having a hard time getting the needle in my arm, he said it kept popping out. He got a little over a quarter of it in though. The real medic came over and grabbed another needle and popped it in and shot it all. He then looked at me and asked if I was allergic to milk or eggs.  Um yeah , why?I dont really remember much after that. I do recall barfing so hard I thought my feet were going to come out and I remember the nurses walking me back to my room a few times. It turned out I kept sleepwalking / halucinating from the fever. Whats up with eggs and flu shots? |
The flu virus is grown in eggs for the vaccine. Actually grow isn't the right word as the virus replicates inside cells and then released. Viruses take over intracellular machinery to make copies fo themselves(may be thousands) whereas bacteria simply grow and divide in binary fission. BTW, you didn't have the "flu". |
I probably didnt have the flu. Like I said, I hardly ever get sick and I dont recall ever having the flu. Just Pnuemonia once. I guess it was some type of reaction. |
I'm no doctor, but what you just described is NOT Influenza, probably food poisoning. I have a close personal friend who is a practicing GP physician, he set me straight on this. He told me that bacteria develop into little colonies on a piece of food and sometimes 2 or more people can eat from the same pice of food and only one person gets sick because they ate more of the bacteria than their system could defend against or they got a piece of the food with a higher concentration of the bacteria. The same reason that some Mexicans can "drink the water" that would make Gringos puke.
|
It could be, I got sick after I ate a Stofers frozen meal. I did not feel better till I barfed all of it up. |
...  Since Christmas day. Achy, coughing, runny nose & chills. ... Been cranky, bored and generally in a bad mood all around. To top things off, I miss my g/f and she doesn't get home until Saturday. Oh well, guess it was "my turn". |