Is It Food Poisoining?
Is it Food Poisoning You had a wonderful meal or you were adventurous eating street food in a foreign country. Now, 6-12 hours after eating you don’t feel so well. You have an overwhelming feeling of sickness, sweating, abdominal crampy; and then …. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. This is your body’s way of getting rid of the contamination and bacteria [typically E. coli, Salmonella, Norovirus]. Food poisoning cannot be diagnosed unless we have a sample of the food and test it for toxins [poisons] which generally takes 3-4 days. Food poisoning or contamination is “suspected” if a person becomes sick and have certain symptoms after a certain time of eating the food. We call it Gastroenteritis. Which means there is inflammation and possible infection of the gastrointestinal [stomach & intestines] tract in the body. It can be brought on by irritation, virus or bacteria; and they have been ingested by contaminated fo...