If you have food poisoning

[stephlove]

How much time is between eating the bad food and feeling sick?

[isabel]

I would say generally 12-24 hours.

[flutterfly]

I've had it happen within a few hours and I've also had it happen like a day later. Anything past 24 hours I'd think it is more along the lines of a virus.

[snickers]

It can vary depending on the food, what is the food in question?

[stephlove]

I had a chicken cesar salad at lunch. It was a prepackaged salad in a food stand at work.

I feel awful, but I'm hoping it's from the salad and not the stomach flu.

[underwaterrhymes]

For me it's been more like 6 hours.

[Norticprincess]

As little as an hour to days/week depending on the bug.


The worst one everything came out about 4 hours after eating.

[snickers]

Apr 23, 2014 19:33:42 GMT -5 stephlove said:

I had a chicken cesar salad at lunch. It was a prepackaged salad in a food stand at work.

I feel awful, but I'm hoping it's from the salad and not the stomach flu.

If the chicken was bad I would think you would already be sick but maybe it was the dressing? The stomach flu would probably get worse within a few hours of feeling off, so hopefully you're just a little off and will be back to normal soon!

[CurlyQ284]

When I had it, I had a salad at lunch time. Dinner I felt nauseous and I woke up at midnight puking and diarrhea so maybe 12 hours to projectiles for me.

[karmasabiotch]

6-24 hours.

[callalily]

Last time I had food poisoning funny enough, was from a Caesar salad. The dressing was bad. I had it for dinner and was barfing by 2am.

[stephlove]

Apr 23, 2014 20:19:47 GMT -5 callalily said:

Last time I had food poisoning funny enough, was from a Caesar salad. The dressing was bad. I had it for dinner and was barfing by 2am.

Great, lol.

I feel like crap, haven't started puking yet, but in quesey and I can tell it's coming. This is going to be a rough night.

[eb777888]

I felt it fairly quickly. I've only had it twice but both times it happened within a few hours. Now people are going to come in here and tell me it wasn't food poisoning, right? The only reason why I know it was is because both times I had someone with me that had the same thing/shared and was violently ill as well.

[Deleted]

Mine hit about 4 hours after eating.

RIP my ability to eat quesadillas.

[blueshirt2003]

I had undercooked Chickfila chicken and was throwing up within 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Worst few days of my life.

[open24hours]

I've had E. coli. It took about 3 days to incubate.

[mrsukyankee]

Apr 24, 2014 1:13:55 GMT -5 open24hours said:

I've had E. coli. It took about 3 days to incubate.

Mine took 36 hrs. It was not pretty.

[alzi]

30 minutes. It was quick.

[auntie]

I had a staph food poisoning- it took a day to get going and lasted 4 days after.

[callalily]

Apr 23, 2014 20:34:13 GMT -5 stephlove said:

Apr 23, 2014 20:19:47 GMT -5 callalily said:

Last time I had food poisoning funny enough, was from a Caesar salad. The dressing was bad. I had it for dinner and was barfing by 2am.

Great, lol.

I feel like crap, haven't started puking yet, but in quesey and I can tell it's coming. This is going to be a rough night.

I hope you are doing ok!!! And trust, it will be a LONG time before you eat Ceasar dressing again!!

[chickadee77]

Pretty quickly - maybe an hour or so. Everyone else that had the same dish got hit around the same time, so I know that's what it was.

[stinkyfeet]

stephlove  how are you feeling today???

[picaflora]

Mine was about 4 hours, and lasted about 6hrs of being ill, and another 6hrs before I could keep down solids. Liquids were ok.

I'm pretty sure mine was because DH didn't clean up well after breaking apart a big package of chicken...

[stephlove]

Apr 24, 2014 7:09:16 GMT -5 stinkyfeet said:

stephlove  how are you feeling today???

I spent the night throwing up. I'm feeling better this morning, not puking anymore but definitely feel like I spent the night throwing up. 

I attempted to call in this morning, but my boss threw a fit because she was planning on being gone. So now I'm sitting at work, after no sleep, with a face covered in popped blood vessels. 

[nymama]

Ugh. Sorry your boss made you feel like you had to come in. If you have any puke left in you, throw up in her trashcan.

[stinkyfeet]

Apr 24, 2014 7:32:29 GMT -5 stephlove said:

Apr 24, 2014 7:09:16 GMT -5 stinkyfeet said:

stephlove  how are you feeling today???

I spent the night throwing up. I'm feeling better this morning, not puking anymore but definitely feel like I spent the night throwing up. 

I attempted to call in this morning, but my boss threw a fit because she was planning on being gone. So now I'm sitting at work, after no sleep, with a face covered in popped blood vessels. 

Oh no! I'm so sorry.  What a crappy thing for your boss to do.   Makes me kinda hope that is a stomach bug and she gets it!

[livinitup]

Bad turkey eaten on Sunday late afternoon/night took 4 of us out around 1 pm Monday afternoon. There was a bunch of people at the party but when about 4 of us all got violently ill around the same time with the "same weird virus"- we put it all together that it was food related. And I mean violently ill - I had no symptoms up until I vomited and then I couldn't stop. Folks who weren't ill, weren't ill at all.

[MWOS]

when I had salmonella, I didn't get antibiotics. Doc said it was better for young/healthy people to just work through it. But I did get morphine and that's kinda better.