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Food Poisoning

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Created by Leech > 9 months ago, 25 Feb 2010
Leech
WA, 1933 posts
25 Feb 2010 9:42PM
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Forgot my common sense and ate a pizza after a session in a small WA fishing town. (Not going to name names).

Stomach pain and churning 15mins into the journey home and 45mins later back home I was spewing my guts for a few hours.

Just a heads up for other hungry sailors, some of these places wouldn't cut the mustard if the health inspector showed up.

Troppo
WA, 887 posts
25 Feb 2010 10:01PM
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let me guess. lancelin servo pizza?

Bertie
NSW, 1351 posts
26 Feb 2010 2:21AM
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Name and shame!
there is more than one small fishing town in WA

Mark _australia
WA, 23478 posts
26 Feb 2010 12:59AM
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Blerrggghhhhh

condolences Dave I know how it feels

Troppo
WA, 887 posts
26 Feb 2010 7:44AM
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Bertie said...

Name and shame!
there is more than one small fishing town in WA


not 60 minutes away there isnt

Big Al
WA, 265 posts
26 Feb 2010 9:14AM
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Another victim of the "Be Marie of Death".


AB....

theWaterBoy
WA, 225 posts
26 Feb 2010 10:34AM
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Food poisoning doesn't kick in that fast - what did you eat 6 hours or so earlier.

Leech
WA, 1933 posts
26 Feb 2010 11:06AM
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Troppo said...

let me guess. lancelin servo pizza?


I thought I'd be safe with vegetarian

Leech
WA, 1933 posts
26 Feb 2010 11:08AM
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theWaterBoy said...

Food poisoning doesn't kick in that fast - what did you eat 6 hours or so earlier.


Nothing. First thing I'd eaten in ~8hrs other than fruit.

Put it this way - as soon as the pizza was purged the purging ceased.

Mark _australia
WA, 23478 posts
26 Feb 2010 2:35PM
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theWaterBoy said...

Food poisoning doesn't kick in that fast - what did you eat 6 hours or so earlier.


um, yes it does

if there is enough bacteria in something you'll feel ordinary very quick and puking 45mins later is about right.

It was the pizza

Dave you going to Health Dept? I would..... a kid could get it tomorrow from the same place and die

Leech
WA, 1933 posts
26 Feb 2010 3:53PM
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I probably should at least give the business in question a call to let them know.


-EDIT-

Phoned the business and was told that there was no way I could pin point it on them and that there is nothing they can do about it. I wasn't blaming or asking for compensation of any kind, just informing. They basically outright denied it.

Very surprised to be answered with such hostility.

Has anyone got the Health Department phone number?

R1DER
WA, 1471 posts
26 Feb 2010 5:01PM
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theWaterBoy said...

Food poisoning doesn't kick in that fast - what did you eat 6 hours or so earlier.


Yes it does, usually starts within 6 hours.

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
26 Feb 2010 6:26PM
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the barber in vic.park i use to go to, he was around 60 years old went for holiday to thailand.

i saw message left on his shop window, sick due to food poisoning.

a week later another message, passed away due to food poisoning.

it happened to me once, eating takeaway veggies. sick as a dog for a few hours.

keeping your immune system sky high by eating healthy organic food could help to save your life if you are ever unfortunate enough to consume a large portion of poisoned food.

FormulaNova
WA, 15086 posts
26 Feb 2010 6:46PM
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theWaterBoy said...

Food poisoning doesn't kick in that fast - what did you eat 6 hours or so earlier.


I have to agree with WaterBoy. I did a bit of research when I thought I was suffering food poisoning from something recent, and the articles I read indeed suggested that it takes quite a while to affect you, and I'm thinking even longer than 6 hours.

Just for the sake of it, have a look at these nice symptoms and work out which one it was

http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/consumers/problems-with-food/food-poisoning/

edit: I might have to take the 6 hours thing back. For vomiting, it looks like it can start earlier, as per number 1 on that URL.

FormulaNova
WA, 15086 posts
26 Feb 2010 6:55PM
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petermac33 said...

the barber in vic.park i use to go to, he was around 60 years old went for holiday to thailand.

i saw message left on his shop window, sick due to food poisoning.

a week later another message, passed away due to food poisoning.

it happened to me once, eating takeaway veggies. sick as a dog for a few hours.

keeping your immune system sky high by eating healthy organic food could help to save your life if you are ever unfortunate enough to consume a large portion of poisoned food.


I wonder if it was the food, or the water. I know when I went to Dahab, Egypt, I had read about the bacteria in the water, and sure enough I ended up doing the 'Dahab Dash'...

In this case if your body already has the bacteria, you're good to go, but until then...

I recommend avoiding all vegies and sticking to a meat only diet! Unless they are deep fried, at which point they are deemed to be safe

hardpole
WA, 608 posts
26 Feb 2010 10:23PM
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petermac33 said...
keeping your immune system sky high by eating healthy organic food could help to save your life


IMHO - immune system is like the rest of your body, it needs to be exercised (challenged is the term I believe) so eating organic (grown in manure and bacteria stew) vegies might help but dodgy takeways and public toilets is even better.

The usual relationship betwen organic food / pesticides / herbicides would be relevant IMO.

What you probably need to avoid is disinfectant and washing your hands.

A polio and tetanus jab wouldnt hurt of course.

Mark _australia
WA, 23478 posts
27 Feb 2010 4:26AM
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hardpole said...

petermac33 said...
keeping your immune system sky high by eating healthy organic food could help to save your life


IMHO - immune system is like the rest of your body, it needs to be exercised (challenged is the term I believe) so eating organic (grown in manure and bacteria stew) vegies might help but dodgy takeways and public toilets is even better.


What you probably need to avoid is disinfectant and washing your hands.




That's why I collect used toilet paper and lick it.

Greenroom
WA, 7608 posts
27 Feb 2010 8:53AM
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I think her missing tooth fell into your onion and olive pizza with no tomato paste

Hendo
WA, 31 posts
27 Feb 2010 6:01PM
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There are a few different diseases lumped together as food poisoning, with different times for onset. If there have been bacteria happily multiplying for a few hours in something that hasn't been cooled properly then their toxins will get you almost immediately. It's one of the pleasures of living in a hot climate....

raggy
VIC, 564 posts
27 Feb 2010 9:31PM
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got a pizza in lano the other week ( dont know if its the same place) but my partner found her self running for the loos at 3:00am we were on the other side of the camp ground too so no small task in the dark lights in the loo block that work all night would be a nice touch too

ozpricey
WA, 333 posts
1 Mar 2010 10:38AM
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Coopers beer and hedgehog is a recipie for feeling crook. The bottled yeast went to town on the sugar and I felt **** for nearly a day after. That its not often beer and hedgehog go together haha

waaaat ? i was hungryyyy

theWaterBoy
WA, 225 posts
2 Mar 2010 2:12PM
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had a surf at lano on the weekend and when we finished my mate wanted some hot food. ordered a foccacia from a service station in lano that serves food - didint have the heart to tell him about leech's experience a week earlier

does that make me bad?

pweedas
WA, 4642 posts
3 Mar 2010 12:53AM
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WICKED!



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