Is there any utility in going to Dr for food poisoning?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Is there any utility in going to Dr for food poisoning?

Posted: 4/22/2016 5:27:39 PM EDT

I mean assuming you aren't so dehydrated you need a saline IV.

Got it from this hotel room SVC food. Manager asks me if he wants me to call the Dr and fill out an incident report or something.

Is there Medicine e that helps or do you just have to wait till you purge it out of your system?

Posted: 4/22/2016 6:18:27 PM EDT

[#1]

For most minor cases no, but there are people who die from Salmonela (sp) who could be helped if they would have gone for help earlier.

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:12:49 PM EDT

[#2]

well I made it from there to the next place I had to be several hours away.

still aint right back there

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:15:00 PM EDT

[#3]

I've had a handful of terrible bouts...got so dehydrated I could barely stand from the pain in my kidneys. A couple of litres of fluids and I was good as news...on 6-7 occasions.

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:16:48 PM EDT

[#4]

If you want to sue, you should identify the organism involved and see if it can be matched to a sample of the offending food. I've had a few food cases...

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:26:30 PM EDT

[#5]

Doc will be able to help with symptoms but the bacteria/virus will have to be killed off by your immune system ultimately.

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:30:42 PM EDT

[#6]

Best cure for food poisoning shits is prune juice. Your body wants whatever is in there out and drinking prune juice forces the issue.

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:41:07 PM EDT

[#7]

You far more likely picked up a norovirus than contacted food poisoning. The best thing you can do is stay hydrated and wait. If you are in otherwise good health,you should be OK. If you feel that you need an IV,go to the

Posted: 4/22/2016 11:45:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Fuck yes it is for the phenergan suppositories alone. That stuff will stop the projectile vomiting and shits so you can keep fluid down.

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:42:15 AM EDT

[#9]

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Fuck yes it is for the phenergan suppositories alone. That stuff will stop the projectile vomiting and shits so you can keep fluid down.

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Are those the ones Louis ck tells about?

Just had the shits today. Had some immodium. Keeping water/gatoraid down no prob.

Would a went the prune juice route but needed to get from DE to NYC

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:46:11 AM EDT

[#10]

How do you know it's food poisoning?

If you got sick shortly after eating, that meal isn't to blame.

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:59:41 AM EDT

[#11]

IME, no.

Posted: 4/23/2016 11:34:05 AM EDT

[#12]

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How do you know it's food poisoning?

If you got sick shortly after eating, that meal isn't to blame.

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I had crab cakes, the next afternoon when I got up I had the squirts.

pretty sure I saw those very same crab cakes in the toilet

I seem to be all right. I ate a piece of New York cheese pizza a minute ago and I'm feeling fine

Posted: 4/23/2016 11:46:52 AM EDT

[#13]

Yeah that sucks, I'm struggling through something right now. I've lost close to 10 lbs over the last week...

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:38:57 PM EDT

[#14]

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Yeah that sucks, I'm struggling through something right now. I've lost close to 10 lbs over the last week...

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Never lick the pros... Well, never mind

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:41:45 PM EDT

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I've had a handful of terrible bouts...got so dehydrated I could barely stand from the pain in my kidneys. A couple of litres of fluids and I was good as news...on 6-7 occasions.

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This. IV fluids can bring you back to life in under an hour if your really dehydrated.

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:44:29 PM EDT

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Best cure for food poisoning shits is prune juice. Your body wants whatever is in there out and drinking prune juice forces the issue.

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When I read this I thought: "How'd my grandmother get on ar15.com?"

She'd cure anything that was wrong with you with only two things:

Prune Juice

Vicks Vapo Rub

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:45:16 PM EDT

[#17]

Make sure to do the BRAT diet...work your body into food slowly:

Beer

Ribs

Asian Food

Tobasco Wings

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:47:38 PM EDT

[#18]

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For most minor cases no, but there are people who die from Salmonela (sp) who could be helped if they would have gone for help earlier.

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This. I made it five days with salmonella before throwing in the towel and headed to the ER. Ain't many people I would wish that shit on, but I can think of a few.

Posted: 4/23/2016 3:48:17 PM EDT

[#19]

Your system clears bad food out pretty quickly, the problem occurs when it isn't bad food but something else.

A guy died here from a flesh eating bacteria he picked up eating oysters.

Posted: 4/23/2016 4:17:48 PM EDT

[#20]

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Make sure to do the BRAT diet...work your body into food slowly:

Beer
Ribs
Asian Food
Tobasco Wings

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Posted: 4/23/2016 4:42:47 PM EDT

[#21]

If you're keeping water down, you should be fine. If you can't, then you need a hospital trip.

Posted: 4/23/2016 5:12:34 PM EDT

[#22]

They have some great drugs, a little expensive though. Probably get cheaper drugs off the street......J/K. If symptoms persist you could become dehydrated and possibly even die.

Posted: 4/23/2016 5:42:07 PM EDT

[#23]

I'm near 60 and can't remember the last time I've been to a doctor.

I'm one of those stupid people that will just keel over.
I was born stubborn Irish.

My dad in 1986 died at 56 years old because he started to notice that he had a hard time
bending over to tie his shoes. Turned out he had a stomach tumor the size of a football.

Some of us still will just rub dirt on it and call it good.

Not a bravado thing...just a who gives a shit mentality.

Posted: 4/23/2016 5:49:01 PM EDT

[#24]

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How do you know it's food poisoning?

If you got sick shortly after eating, that meal isn't to blame.

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Not true. Rapid onset could be from S. aureus food poisoning.

Posted: 4/23/2016 5:57:59 PM EDT

[#25]

In 1996 I was hospitalized with confirmed E coli. From the first symptoms to the ER was less than three hours. It took so much Phenergan to stop the shitting and puking that it burned a vein from my wrist to my elbow.

If you have "food poisoning" you will know.

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