Food Poison! Have you ever gotten it? And where did you get it from?!
Answers: I have, I go it from SUBWAY, which sucks b/c their motto is "Eat Fresh". I haven't eaten from them in 4 years!!!
I've had it few times. I had seafood poisoning twice: once from mussels and the second time from shrimp scampi. The latter forced me into the hospital for 2 nights. I also contracted food poisoning from those chick-on-a-stick things at an outdoor festival. That was just as bad as the hospital experience. I felt warm all over immediately and nearly passed out. I was miserable for 2 days and then I ate baked fish from my college's cafeteria (huge mistake). I was sick for an entire week. I dont even want to go into the details...
From Turkey cold cuts. It was horrible.
yes I have had it, I got it from eating panda express.
yes from Fudruckers... egh...it was horrible. I will never eat there again.
is this where we're supposed to go 'boycott subway?'
I had a friend who did and each time he got it from Jack "n" the box
You want to know about food poisoning? Talk to a truck driver. On average, a truck driver will get food poisoning once every 8-10 DAYS! Limited places we can go in a big truck, so we usually end up at the "all you can eat" buffets at the truck stops. You don't even want to know the average number of truck drivers that will go to the restroom and come out without washing their hands, LOL.
In many a occassion if the food is carelessly cooked we too heard at many places , at bulk preparation on order again careless cooking, and at marriges.It happened when i went for the marriage of my brother having reached the location far off having reached by train, being hungry we ate , marriage over and suddenly all of us were vomiting etc left the same day to return back without any food. It was food poison.
one should be choosy .I decided always eat as little as posible , so that i will be safe.
I did on a road trip to florida..i will never forget it.we stopped at a truck stop an got a roast beef sandwich..that was 6 years ago and i still won't touch roast beef..driving in a car with food poisoning is not fun..at all.
Got it in Washington DC at a small restaurant. One of the worst experiences of my life. I thought I was gonna die at the hospital.
nope never ,but i saw someone had by eating vendor potatoes ...
yes twice....once severely from a vending machine (BLT) and then once again me and my daughter got it from PaPa Johns pizza.....havent ate food from vending or from papa johns every since....that is the sickest i ever ever been ....esp the first time!
I've never been exactly food poisioned, I ate some barbeque meat that didn't agree with my stomach from a restaurant.
What Is Food Poisoning?
Food poisoning comes from eating foods that contain germs like bad bacteria or toxins, which are poisonous substances. Bacteria are all around us, so mild cases of food poisoning are common. You may have had mild food poisoning — with diarrhea and an upset stomach — but your mom or dad just called it a stomach bug or stomach virus.
You might think the solution is to get rid of all the bacteria. But it isn't possible and you wouldn't want to do it, even if you could. Bacteria are all around us, including in food, and sometimes they can be good for you. It's confusing, but one thing is for sure — the bacteria in the rotten leftovers weren't good for you. But you can learn how to avoid those bad germs in food.
Which Germs Are to Blame?
Foods from animals, raw foods, and unwashed vegetables all can contain germs that cause food poisoning. The most likely source is food from animals, like meat, poultry (such as chicken), eggs, milk, and shellfish (such as shrimp).
Some of the most common bacteria are:
Salmonella (say: sal-meh-neh-luh)
Listeria (say: lis-tir-ee-uh)
Campylobacter (say: kam-pye-low-bak-tur)
E. coli (say: ee kole-eye)
To avoid food poisoning, people need to prepare, cook, and store foods properly.
Do I Have Food Poisoning?
If a person has food poisoning, he or she might:
have an upset stomach (called nausea, say: naw-zee-uh)
have stomach cramps
have diarrhea (say: dy-uh-ree-uh), which may contain blood
have a fever
Sometimes feeling sick from food poisoning shows up within hours of eating the bad food. At other times, someone may not feel sick until several days later. With mild cases of food poisoning, you will not feel sick for very long and will soon be feeling fine again.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if you have food poisoning or something else. You might do a little detective work and see who else gets the same sickness. Did they eat the same thing you did? If only people who ate that food got sick, food poisoning could be the problem.
It's one thing to get food poisoning from something in your fridge, but imagine how many people could get sick if a restaurant served food that had these bad germs in it. When that happens, people from the health department might get involved and try to figure out what happened and make sure everyone gets the medical care they need.
What Will the Doctor Do?
If you go to the doctor, he or she will ask you a lot of questions about how you're feeling, when you first felt sick, what you ate in the past few days, and if anyone else you know is also sick. The doctor might also take a sample of your stool (poop) and urine (pee) to test for possible germs that might have caused food poisoning.
The type of treatment you'll get for food poisoning will depend on the specific germ that is making you sick. The doctor might give you medicine, but most of the time people who have food poisoning don't need to take medicine.
It's also rare that a kid with food poisoning would need to go to the hospital. Usually, only people who get really dehydrated have to go to the hospital. Being dehydrated means your body has lost too much fluid due to diarrhea and vomiting. A dehydrated person can get fluids and medicine through an IV at the hospital. To keep from getting dehydrated, try to keep drinking fluids when you are sick.
You may also need to go to the hospital if you have blood in your poop. If you do see blood in your poop, you should definitely tell your parents about it.
How to Fight the Germs
Many things can be done to prevent food poisoning from happening. These precautions should be taken at every stage a food takes — from preparation to cooking to storing leftovers. A lot of this responsibility falls on grown-ups, but kids can help fight germs, too. One of the best ways is to wash your hands if you're helping to prepare foods.
When should you wash? Before you start helping — so germs from your hands don't get on the food — and after so you don't pass along germs from the food to yourself or anyone else. If you don't, here's how germs can travel: You help make hamburger patties. You get bad bacteria from the raw ground beef on your hands. You hold your little sister's hand. She uses that hand to eat a snack. Now the bacteria have made it inside and can make her sick.
Other steps you can take to keep your food safe include:
Wash fruits and vegetables well before eating them.
Only eat foods that are properly cooked. If you cut into chicken and it looks pink and raw inside, tell a grown-up.
Look at what you're eating and smell it, too. If something looks or smells different than normal, check with an adult before eating or drinking it. Milk is a good example. If you've ever had a sip of sour milk, you know you never want to taste that again! Mold (which can be green, pink, white, or brown) is also often a sign that food has spoiled.
If you're going to eat leftovers, ask a grown-up for help heating them up. By heating them, you can kill bacteria that grew while it was in the fridge.
Check the date. Lots of packaged foods have expiration dates or "sell by" dates. Don't eat a food if today's date is after the expiration date. Use it before it expires. Some of these dates are "sell by," which means that the food should leave store shelves by that time. Ask an adult for help deciding if it's past the sell by date.
Cover and refrigerate food right away. Sitting at room temperature, bacteria get a good chance to grow. By putting food in the fridge, you're putting the chill on those bad germs!
Twice, from soup in restaurants.
I have very little sense of smell, and cannot taste food well.
Both times I became ill, I noticed that the soup had a bit of a tang, a bite to it. I did not realize that this was caused by bacteria.
I assume that the soup was left over from the day before and was not properly refrigerated.
YES, FROM EGGS. IT WAS TERRIBLE!!!
It was either the turkey or a salad that had egg in it...it was day after thanksgiving and their were 11 of us...twelve if you count my grandson being born early because of it
I got terribly sick once after eating taco bell it was never determined that it was food poisoning, but I am pretty sure that it was.
Bad mayo. I got so sick I had to go to the ER and they pumped me with fluids and stuff to stop me from retching. The dry heaves made blood vessels under my skin on my face and in my eyes pop. So I looked like I was possessed by the devil since you couldn't see any white to my eyes. And my skin looked bruised like someone had beaten me. I felt as good as I looked.
Ugghhh...I have had it twice..like you, once from Subway (turkey) and another time from Chipolte. I thought I was going to die from throwing up so much. Good news is I lost 10 lbs over a few days from not eating!!