Food poisoning and afterwards

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As I've mentioned on another thread, me and the Mr ate oysters and curry just after Christmas and have been ill ever since. The projectile vomiting only lasted a day but since then we've been through every sympton going - stomach pains, dizzyness, dihorrea (spelling?), rashes, wind, tierdness.... and though we're slowly getting better we just can't seem to shake it off. We still can't face eating more than one small meal a day and while losing a collective one and a half stones between us is good, we'd really like to get better!

On top of all this, Mr LizzyB developed an allergic reaction to Imodium - rashes, swelling lips and eyes etc - which keeps recuring.

Does anyone know wht we should be doing to get ourselves better? Or should we just put up with the symptoms and wait? And has anyone else developed an adverse reaction to Imodium?

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May be a visit to your GP may be the answer, I was like this once after eating a prawn curry, took ages to get over it, symptons not as bad as you two are. Have you tried not taking anything but water for 24 hours to clear everything out of your system as it were?

Whizzy

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Try starving yourself for 24 hours, keep your fluid intake up - boiled water is best. Then eat a little and often as opposed to big meals.

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OOps, sorry, Whizzy has just made the same suggestion. Must be right then.....

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A dictionary may cure your spelling. Can't help with the rest I'm afraid.

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Pickled sharks heads Lizzyb. Thought they were a mistake.

Get well soon (drink lots)

:-X

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Thanks FR and Whizzy - must admit, we've tried the starvation thing a couple of times now and it hasn't really worked. Maybe we need to persevere?

David B - Can't find the d-word on spellcheck and the dictionary is at the other end of the apartment .... ooh, I'm being pathetic today ...

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Oooh, and thanks Chimp - must admit, we were discussing the 'frozen vodka only' cure last night...!

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Hi LizzyB, sorry to hear you are not 100 percent. My son got food poisoning on holiday and it also took ages for stomach cramps etc to clear up. Our GP suggested he gave up dairy products for a couple of weeks and that seemed to do the trick. Hope you get well soon.

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Hi LizzyB

Have you had a sample tested for food-poisoning bacteria such as salmonella or campylobacter? If you haven't, it would be worth asking your doc to send some of the diarrhoea to the lab. Both of these bugs are sensitive to certain antibiotics so a diagnosis could lead to a cure.

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No solutions only sympathy. Hope you get better soon btw and welcome back to forumland, the FP doesn't seem to have affected your wit.

But did you seriously have oysters and Curry? someone could have suggested this was a deliberate act to avoid flying back to bjorkland

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And we thought we were being so clever when we harvested our own oysters from the Thames Estuary....

Its the Docs tomorrow if we're not better. We've been trying to avoid this -visiting the doctors over here is a financially alarming experience. You pay the reeptionist as you enter the surgery just for the pleasure of seeing the doctor. Still, at least this means that the surgery is full of people who are actually properly ill (and rich).