OT - food poisoning

Not sure where I got it from but yesterday I started having fluid diarrhea and vomiting. I couldn't even hold water down. Towards evening I was able to keep some water.

This morning I tried an apple but my stomach is still cramping. The delirium stopped and in general I feel a little better. I will wait a little to see how it goes before I take my meds. I vomited them out too yesterday.

if you have any advise what to do in the case of food poisoning I'll be happy to hear it.

There seems to be a ton of stomach viruses going around lately. Any time I have a virus I just sip ginger ale made with real ginger and maybe a couple saltines if I have been keeping the ginger ale down. I do this with my daughter too. Then slowly introduce food like soups first. An apple would be kind of harsh on the tummy I would think. If you can go to an Urgent Care they can give you something for the vomitting.

it's called an assisted colon cleanse/rest - and you don't have to drink any crappy tasting gook !

i also think it's a bug -

ginger tea is always my go to drink when i have a gut ache -

I'm in the hospital now.

Andrina, I am so sorry to hear that this food poisoning landed you in the hospital!

I hope your symptoms start to subside and you feel better.

 

geez, seems like a lot of us are dropping like flies lately with stomach/flu bugs! what the heck????

it's probably good you're in the hospital getting some fluids. with UC, it's so much worse since you have the runs anyways. did the doctor give you any meds? i'm not even sure what you would take. maybe you just have to suffer through it.

They also give me antibiotics...through IV

Be watchful if the antibiotics help alleviate your UC symptoms. During my last flare I was prescribed antibiotics that serendipitously ended my flare. Since then I have maintained that remission by diet and supplements especially probiotics on the theory that the probiotics would help keep the bad bacteria from returning.

I took probiotics while I was on the antibiotics and tons more when the antibiotics ended. I was desperate trying to maintain the remission. It seemed to work out.

Yes, still in remission since March, 2010. My maintenance "med" is powdered psyllium seed mixed with VSL#3, apple sauce and/or yogurt, and frozen blueberries every other day. On off days I take Culturelle and other assorted probiotics. Once I find a probiotic that is compatible then I eat them like candy. It is expensive but I tell myself that it is cheaper than Asacol.

A good probiotic to take while on antibiotics is S. Boulardii. This is a probiotic yeast that is immune to antibiotics so that it can continue to repel bad guys like C. Diff while your gut flora are getting decimated by the antibiotics. S. Boulardii works for me but I have seen many complaints on this forum about it causing gas.

Every once in a while I will discover a new food trigger, (my most recent was sorbitol), that causes flare-like symptoms. Or I might break down and eat a one-time slice of pizza knowing that I will soon get hammered. I know immediately when I am on the wrong track when my stool becomes less formed. When that happens I double up with the probiotics and supplements. I know that if I continue eating the junk then I will be in a full-blown flare no matter how many supplements I take, and who knows how long it will take to escape it.

So sorry to hear about your hospitalization. Hope you get feeling better soon.
Keep letting us know how you are.

meyerlemony, was your husband in the ER too?

A little though I just had watery diarrhea again.

Chicken broth, chicken, cooked carrots, saltines (unless you are gluten-free). Anyone cooking a turkey for Christmas you can get some? If you're well enough you can beg for the carcass and make a boatload of turkey broth and add celery tops. I'm making some gluten-free cupcakes today (first time recipe). If they turn out edible I'll post the recipe haha. (Got inspired watching Cupcake Wars and a gluten-free baker got to the finals. Not her recipe though.)

Antibiotics weren't for nothing if you are going home infection-free. And perhaps they killed some bad gut bacteria for you as a side benefit.

Wishing the best health for you over the holidays and a good beginning to 2013. Hey we all made it through the Mayan end of the world

Supermarkets around me offer cooked turkeys for purchase. Do yours? Would it be too heavy for you to pick up? They also have cooked chickens too. I used to buy them all the time and then make soup from the bones.

Now I bake my own whole chickens, easy now but not when feeling low (I remember those days).

And how about a festive smoothie as a holiday treat?