What to eat after food poisoning?

[buffyspikefaith]

I'm not hungry but I've lost 16lbs and haven't really eaten in a week

Managed half a pack of plain hula hoops, a rusk and I can suck on chewy sweets. Been drinking full sugar coke and rehydration drinks
Not sure what to go for next. Avoiding dairy and anything acidic maybe?
The antibiotics have left an awful mouth taste hence the sweets!

When you have recovered, get some multi-B vitamins tablets (supermarket ones are fine) and take them last thing at night, preferably with milk. At the moment your system is shedding all the water-soluble nutrients.

Might it be Covid? If so the B vitamins are really important for healing.

When I had gastroenteritis which I know is not the same thing the BRAT diet saved me. Bananas, rice, applesauce and plain toast. I just did bananas and toast for days. But I held it down and then moved onto other things.

But yes no meat, no dairy.

It's not covid, I've been swabbed and co formed as campylobacter

The rice was good but set off painful cramps for a while
Get a feeling this could be a long haul

I was always told not to eat solids till you 'were a bit better' and then either a banana, dry toast or plain white rice (small portions).

Same here 👍

Plain broth, toast....
later on.....plain rice
when you can manage that...
chicken vegetable & rice broth
then chicken soup
Small portions, well spaced out through the day.
Plenty of fluids throughout the day.

I hope you start to feel better very soon.

There will be no chicken anywhere near me for a very long time
Vegetable it is

I swear by BRAT and just drinking water as well when anyone in our house gets a stomach bug. Bananas, plain white rice, stewed apples or plain toast.

When you can stomach that I usually cook tiny pasta in bone broth and live on that for a few meals (they do beef bone broth if you can't face chicken.)

Once you can snack....plain salted crisps (I agree Hula Hoops are ideal......or ready salted Pringles and the orange still Lucozade to sip). Rich tea biscuits and stay clear of lots of dairy until you're feeling much better.

White rice plain

I had food poisoning years ago from KFC. I was still living at home and my mum fed me soup, dry toast, plain biscuits, plain omelettes, in fact anything simple and light. Nothing heavy on my stomach. Water and flat lemonade to drink. She worked in the health centre across the road so she spoke to one of the doctors who guided her as to what was best. It took me about a month to feel right but it did trigger IBS which I still (40 years later) suffer from.

The reason for the dehydration mix I described upthread is that when you have had a bad upset there's stage when the body can't absorb plain water and rejects it very fast, which is exhausting for the sufferer and also dangerous. The little bit of sugar and salt makes all the difference.

@buffyspikefaith how are you now? I'm on day 4 of this thing and it's no better. some peeps say let the infection work its way out but am thinking of drugs atm, fed up of running to loo umpteen times a day!

The antibiotics have kicked in and no longer feeling sick and no more diarrhoea thank god
Still getting cramps and this is day 11
Got a couple more days of antibiotics left, just tired and no appetite

I think after sickness your body generally tells you what it wants. It isn't a one size fits all thing. Some of the suggestions above I would struggle with at the best of times, never mind when nauseous. I tend to want milky things, like yoghourt, but am aware that it would make others heave. I also want 'watery' food like melon.

As far as the sugar is concerned, your blood sugar is probably low and your body is telling you. As a previous posters said, drinking a lot of plain water when you are dehydrated is pointless. You've also lost important 'salts' within your body which have to balance with the water. Until you replace them, your body will just excrete the water. You can buy rehydration salts/drinks or make your own with salt, sugar and water. Or keep going with the sugary tea and eat something salty like crisps.

Anyway, as you are on the mend, take it as an excuse to eat exactly what you fancy, whenever you fancy it, even if it is ice cream at breakfast time, until your normal appetite returns.

Yeah I've had plenty of rehydration drinks during the diarrhoea stage

@buffyspikefaith Do u mean 'Dioralyte' a rip off imo, bought in past, just sat in cupboard until went out of date.

Feel hungry and can't muster any enthusiasm whatsoever for white rice or bread, can't drink what I want to drink, sitting around the house dashing to loo at intervals. Total boring experience!!!

No I had some sports ones in, electrolyte type so used those!

Just ordered an online food shop, all the immodium and replacement salts sachets seem to be out of stock! maybe this bug common atm..

I always get in some Jewish chicken soup, add dry toast and you will feel better in no time. There are recipes online if you have no shops nearby that sell it.

Yeah I'm not eating chicken! That's what I got food poisoning from

Rice boiled in chicken stock.

Chicken Consommé or bone broth.

Apples.

Toast.

Probiotic yoghurt should help settle your stomach.

An Irish friend of mine recommends a shot glass of Guinness twice a day when recovering from an upset tum. Not sure why but he swears by it!

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