Eaten raw chicken- can I do anything?

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

Any update, OP?

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

Dh’s mate eats chicken raw. No joke!

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!

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

What is this lugols iodine? You ingest it and it stops norovirus? 😳

raw chicken only makes you ill if it’s infected. You will hopefully be fine.

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 believe the legal limit for processing chicken is that it can be cooked no more than seven times.

If it's been frozen a long time then it's possible the level of campylobacter (if present in the first place) bacteria could reduce slightly, but salmonella isn't destroyed by freezing, it will just pause reproduction.

Edit: studied microbiology.

I'm no microbiologist but I'd hope that freezing the chicken killed most of the nasties that might have been in it originally.

Hopefully the freezer killed any germs.
Only time I had serious food poisoning in uk was from cross contamination and very poor hygiene.

DH bit into a Waitrose chicken on a stick thing, not realising it was raw under the breadcrumbs. He only had one bite but got salmonella for about a week. Fingers crossed for you, Op.

Early homo sapiens ate raw meat - chicken included.

You may get the shits, but you are very unlikely to die.

It can make you ill but the vast majority of the time it won't.

Doesn't help you if you're an outlier, of course.

Honestly, you’ll most likely be fine. Raw chicken obviously carries a risk of certain bacteria which can make you ill but it’s far from guaranteed and you didn’t eat much. By far the most likely outcome is that you won’t experience any consequences at all.

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

I posted something similar (different username) not that long ago - DH put a lovely butcher's chicken quarter in the air fryer for me, and I ate a bit of the outside before cutting further and finding it was still raw inside.

I didn't eat any of the raw part but I was convinced that the outer part would be affected - I was counting down from 48 hrs to 7 days for salmonella and 5 to 9 days (or something) for campylobacter.

I was absolutely fine. I am very phobic about such things but from the terrible things I've read on here and elsewhere, the overwhelming likelihood is that you'll be fine. Good luck!

Not helpful now as you likely don't have it in but for the future... 6 drops of lugols iodine in water stops food poisoning and sickness bugs almost immediately. Even the worst case of noro will stop with two doses. It's magic. Sometimes the old fashioned remedies are the best.

I'm hoping you will be ok, however I got campylobacter from chicken goujons- symptoms started about 36 hours after I had eaten 3 of them. That was nasty, so much so that i can't stomach chicken anymore

It's likely the slice you ate was cooked as you would have cut into the outer part first and if it was raw it would have felt cold or just warm when you ate it and you would have noticed.

If you feel sick OP it might be best to let it happen. I ate half a sausage once that tasted a bit wrong and made me sick shortly after. Couldn't have been food poisoning so quickly, but I do feel like my stomach also thought was something wrong with it so made me nauseous enough to send it straight back.

Have the Vodka … if it doesn’t work for the chicken, at least it will help you sleep

Hopefully you will be ok. But I would not eat anything now for a while so you have nothing in you feeding a bug. No dairy in your drinks etc.
When dd had terrible salmonella from a cross contamination incident at school the doctor said flat coke and plain crisps only. I know now it's bart. I think it took about 30 hours from the meal till she was writhing on the floor in pain in the middle of the night.

I’ve eaten mouthfuls of chicken raw several times by mistake before (our oven is old and temperamental, and if I’m distracted when I start eating…it happens). Never been ill from it. I’ll happily eat beef, eggs and fish raw and certainly eaten chicken sashimi in Japan - British chicken’s a bit dicier but you’ll likely be fine.