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Eaten raw chicken- can I do anything?

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Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 20:48

DH served up a (pre made, cooked from frozen) chicken kyiv with chips tonight. I cut into the kyiv, dipped a load of chips into the garlic butter that ran out, and ate a slice, not looking at it, as I was just looking at the crispy outside coating. Cut it open a bit more and realised it was completely raw inside. 😫

Obviously my AIBU is, AIBU to murder DH for this.

But more practically, is there anything that I can do? Do I just need to wait for the vomiting to start? Is it likely I'll be really ill?

I guess I didn't eat a huge amount, maybe about 20% of the kyiv, but I also had a lot of the garlic butter which would have been all over the raw chicken.

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changedname1979 · 17/12/2024 22:39

I’m another to have eaten raw chicken by mistake, I was absolutely fine.

as for those who question how you didn’t realise, when you’re eaten it in something like a Kiev it’s surprising how you don’t actually notice straight away.

fivebyfivebuffy · 17/12/2024 22:37

Although if it helps I wasn't sick with it, just felt nauseous and they said that was common with campylobacter

Calliopespa · 17/12/2024 22:36

It would probably be hitting you about now oP so you may be lucky.

On the other hand a significant portion of food poisoning cases in people I know have been, for some reason, kievs. I think the coating crisps and browns misleadingly fast. Your DH isn’t the first person to have got a Kiev wrong.

Trepidfox · 17/12/2024 22:36

@Bambooozle oh gosh I know so hard but hopefully this thread will give you some laughs (obv not the poor ones who have been unwell) and help you to relax x

fivebyfivebuffy · 17/12/2024 22:35

ApplesinmyPocket · 17/12/2024 21:12

What have we done to ourselves that we are genuinely scared that a mouthful of raw chicken is going to make us ill? Who told us that?

We get this topic every few months on MN. I can't remember any that ended 'so I was up all night vomiting.'

You ever had campylobacter? I'm quite lax about use by dates etc but I got food poisoning from chicken at a meal out
Once you've had a 40c temp for a week and shit yourself every 30 mins and lost 17lbs and ended up in hospital you tend to be very cautious

I've not touched chicken since

Nothatgingerpirate · 17/12/2024 22:32

Yes, you can.
Stop panicking, forget the mouthful.
Nothing is going to happen.

AegonT · 17/12/2024 22:28

You might be just fine. There is a chance of food poisoning but not a certainty and you can do anything to prevent it. I have eaten under cooked chicken by mistake more than once and been fine. I've only ever got food poisoning from sea food.

SilverChampagne · 17/12/2024 22:27

You can’t have eaten raw chicken and not realised. The texture is just so radically different.

FumingTRex · 17/12/2024 22:25

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 17/12/2024 22:07

This thread does make me wonder (again) why humans eat a meat that is so riddled with germs that we can get sick if it's not cooked perfectly, and even if we don't sanitise everything it touched when it was raw. There are much safer foods out there!

Its not the meat, it’s the modern intensive farming methods.

paddyclampster · 17/12/2024 22:24

Calmhappyandhealthy · 17/12/2024 22:13

It seems to be mainly for the thyroid????

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Be that as it may, if there’s a tiny chance it would help, I will take it!

Evaka · 17/12/2024 22:24

Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:20

These tales are making me feel better! Maybe I should down a bottle of vodka ...

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Glad it cheered you up :).

FumingTRex · 17/12/2024 22:23

My DS as a toddler ate some gone off raw chicken which had been left out of the fridge as was waiting to be thrown away. I gave him coke. He was fine!

Calmhappyandhealthy · 17/12/2024 22:20

Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:20

These tales are making me feel better! Maybe I should down a bottle of vodka ...

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I think a little alcohol would relax you xxx

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Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:20

Don't have any iodine though...

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Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:20

Evaka · 17/12/2024 22:16

My brother ate a whole uncooked and frozen chicken Kiev when off his tits drunk. On his knees in front of the freezer. Survived to tell the tale..

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These tales are making me feel better! Maybe I should down a bottle of vodka ...

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Sebsaloysius · 17/12/2024 22:19

I'm pretty sure that recommending anyone to ingest Lugol's Iodine isn't good advice.....

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Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:19

Porcuporpoise · 17/12/2024 22:13

<hollow laugh> Oh but you can. June 2005 - salmonella- I ended up in hospital on a drip (and that was the last time I ate chicken kiev).

It's definitely not a given though and I think the odds are you'll be fine.

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Oh fuck, was thinking at worst it would be a few days of vomit etc, really can't deal with hospital at Christmas because of this.

Of course DH is in a huff because I should just get over it apparently.

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janeandmarysmum · 17/12/2024 22:19

paddyclampster · 17/12/2024 22:12

Any update, OP?

I have emetophia and have just ordered the iodine!!!

Iodine??

ApplesinmyPocket · 17/12/2024 22:18

ItOnlyTakesTwoMinutes · 17/12/2024 21:36

What 😂 of course raw chicken can make you ill (sorry @Bambooozle !)

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But it mostly doesn't 🙄

janeandmarysmum · 17/12/2024 22:18

HScully · 17/12/2024 20:59

I did this with a chicken goujon, i thought they were pre cooked! I was fine x

A friend got campylobacter from raw chicken goujons. She was quite unwell.

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Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:17

Teanbiscuits33 · 17/12/2024 22:02

They’re not, they are sometimes part cooked so that the breadcrumbs get a slight golden colour, but I’ve never known a chicken Kiev to be precooked, they normally say on the box they contain raw chicken. Randomly, I remember a news article about an elderly lady dying from food poisoning after eating an undercooked Kiev a few years back!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2910760/amp/Food-poisoning-undercooked-chicken-kiev-kills-grandmother-Pensioner-discharged-hospital-condition-deteriorated.html

God knows how I remember that!

OP, if you’re not elderly and otherwise in good health you should be fine bar the shits and vomiting at worst

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I think I'm in normal health and am just middle aged but reading that article hasn't helped with the fear.

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Bambooozle · 17/12/2024 22:16

Trepidfox · 17/12/2024 21:57

Poor you! It's happened now, try and bring your mind into the present. Right now you are absolutely fine (unless I missed a post?) Don't go down the rabbit hole unless you start feeling unwell

I'm trying to do this, I just can't stop thinking about it and just feel queasy now.

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magicstar2020 · 17/12/2024 22:16

Let us know how you are OP. hope you're ok x

Evaka · 17/12/2024 22:16

DurhamDurham · 17/12/2024 20:59

My daughter once ate an entire pack of uncooked chicken goujons when she was drunk at 18 year old. She only realised what she had done when she woke up the next day. We all thought she was going to be really ill, she was absolutely fine. Her GP said that it was probably the alcohol in her stomach that stopped the uncooked chicken doing any damage, the vodka cooked/sterilised it.

My brother ate a whole uncooked and frozen chicken Kiev when off his tits drunk. On his knees in front of the freezer. Survived to tell the tale..

Porcuporpoise · 17/12/2024 22:13

YouveGotAFastCar · 17/12/2024 20:57

You won’t get food poisoning from this. Honestly.

<hollow laugh> Oh but you can. June 2005 - salmonella- I ended up in hospital on a drip (and that was the last time I ate chicken kiev).

It's definitely not a given though and I think the odds are you'll be fine.

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