Help With Food Poisoning Please??!
Question: So I went to a restaurant for lunch yesterday. I had a medium rare steak (my favorite) with garlic butter and cooked with onions. I also had a house salad with ranch dressing. Everything tasted ok, not the best cooked but still good. 12 hours later I woke up with horrible stomach pains and cramps. Throughout the night I could not stay asleep, threw up a couple times. After I think I threw up all I could, I felt a slight bit better but still had horrible stomach cramps. Later the night and throughout today I've had diarrhea. Now I feel too weak to do anything with a headache and just feel horrible.
My question is, how long will this take to get out of my system?
Is there anything I can take to make myself feel better?
What are good things to eat while my stomach is still upset?
I know to try to keep drinking water to prevent dehydration but is there anything else?
Thanks everyone for your help.
Answers: So I went to a restaurant for lunch yesterday. I had a medium rare steak (my favorite) with garlic butter and cooked with onions. I also had a house salad with ranch dressing. Everything tasted ok, not the best cooked but still good. 12 hours later I woke up with horrible stomach pains and cramps. Throughout the night I could not stay asleep, threw up a couple times. After I think I threw up all I could, I felt a slight bit better but still had horrible stomach cramps. Later the night and throughout today I've had diarrhea. Now I feel too weak to do anything with a headache and just feel horrible.
My question is, how long will this take to get out of my system?
Is there anything I can take to make myself feel better?
What are good things to eat while my stomach is still upset?
I know to try to keep drinking water to prevent dehydration but is there anything else?
Thanks everyone for your help.
Hi! I had food poisoning from alfalfa sprouts this summer, and had to miss my first day at my new job :( I went to the ER because I threw up for 24 hours and fainted in the shower - turns out I was severely dehydrated, which is very dangerous if you let it go too far (I did, but I never will again). They gave me a few bags of IV fluid and I was good as new. If your pee is brown (gross, I know, but pay attention) or if you faint, you need to go to the ER asap. Very serious.
If you're not that far along, you should just be drinking lots and lots of things that are low in sugar and high in electrolytes / salts. Drink as much as you can hold. Even if you throw it all up, at least your body absorbed some of it - and at least you'll have something in you to throw up! Better than dry heaving! The ER doctor told me to drink warm water with salt in it (gross, but it works) and Propel fitness water (no sugar, lots of electrolytes). Also, gingerale helps settle your stomach a little bit. Just stay away from lots of sugary drinks because sugar prevents you from absorbing the fluid (i.e., Gatorade is good b/c of electrolytes, but it's too sugary). Drink as much as you can - the dehydration is what prevents you from feeling better once you have actually puked up all the bad food.
If you can manage to eat, try saltines or other crackers with salt and baking soda in them. Stick to the BRATT diet: bananas, rice, apples, tea, toast (dry). Rice Krispies with no milk counts as rice, too. Stay far away from dairy products, meat, and citrus fruit.
Poor thing. Feel better soon - and watch for signs of serious dehydration. When you're feeling better be sure you have a Chapstick nearby -
Well to be honest you have to let it play itself out it could be a couple of day could be a week
I suggest some benedril.
and if it is really really bad i suggest the hosipital in rare cases food poisioning has killed people so just to be on the safe side i would go to the hospital if you dont get better within 3 days
Rice water. Boil up some rice with too much water. Once it has cooked for about 15 minutes, drain the water into a cup and drink it. Don't eat the rice, just the drained water. Rice water helps pull the impurities out of your system and won't react with any other meds you might be using.
Signs of food poisoning usually appear after 5 hours of consuming the tainted food, but everyone is different, and if you eat rare steak often, your stomach is stronger than the average Joe. The worst is over, you should be back to normal in a day. Drink peptol bismol and gatorade... not mixed, just throughout the day.
Pepto bismal caplets, gatorade...if you feel like eating try dry toast, white rice, saltine crackers...small amounts at first. You will feel better soon.
There is so many food poisoning out their..maybe this will up you.Hope you feel better.
http://www.medicinenet.com/food_poisonin...
soda crackers (saltines)
ginger ale
chicken bouillon cubes in water (chicken broth)
nothing else for a couple days until that pounding stops in your belly.
Did you go to see your Doctor to confirm food poisoning?
I would suggest that if the symptoms continue, that you see your Doctor. It may be something entirely different.
In the mean time, you must keep up your fluid intake. Drinking water is a must. You might also try some flat ginger ale or 7-up. As for eating, jello might help or a clear broth. Soda crackers might help if you feel nauseous. What ever you do, don't drink milk or consume other dairy products. Your system has to work to hard to digest dairy products.
Sometimes a mild tylenol can help if you have a headache.
I hope that you feel better soon
As you said KEEP DRINKING WATER or Gatoraid or some form of fluids. EVEN IF YOU THROW IT BACK UP you've got to keep yourself hydrated. The toxins should pass through your system in 24 hours. If not, or if you get worse, get the doctor or ER.
The most important thing you can do is avoid dehydration. If you are keeping water down, that is good.
A popular diet for upset stomach is B-R-A-T; bananas, rice (plain), applesauce, and (dry) toast. I wouldn't push myself too hard to eat, though, as long as you are still nauseated. Avoid dairy products for a few days to give your intestine time to replenish lactase (an enzyme that can be washed away by diarrhea).
You may want to contact your local health department to see if they are tracking any disease in your area. I find that most of the time they are not very responsive, though. I hope you feel better soon!
"Food poisoning" can be ptomaine, botulism, salmonella, or a few hundred other pathogens or chemicals. The recovery and severity can range from a day or two, to... never (i.e. fatal). Your diagnosis may be incorrect also. (I had three incidents of what I believed to be food poisoning before an accurate diagnosis of appendicitis.) If your case is self-resolving (not needing any medication and getting better) eat bland foods like rice, barley, maybe oatmeal, but avoid foods high in fat and protein. Drink water but get electrolytes from sources such as XS Sport drinks, or Gatorade.
If you're not recovering quickly on your own, waiting for proper diagnosis and treatment can be quite dangerous.