Food poisoning

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Backstory; Last night DP and I got dinner in from the nearby fish and chip shop. DP had a chicken breast and chips,I had a sauce and chips. Didn't eat much of mine because there were short dark curly hairs in the sauce (couldn't eat it once I'd noticed). DP's was fine.

Well,he thought so at the time. I was woken at 3am this morning by DP projectile vomiting all over the bed. He has now has d&v,hasn't gone an hour without vomiting and can't keep down water.

My question is; would it be unreasonable of me to go back to the chip shop and give them what for and also make a complaint to FSA?

Most food poisoning takes 36 hours to get through your system, some strains can take 24 days.

Are you sure it was the chip shop?

www.nhs.uk/conditions/Food-poisoning/Pages/Introduction.aspx

No you need to contact environmental health. I very much doubt the chippy did this. Did you keep the sauce? because this is a separate issue.

Hmmm - contrary to what Holly suggests I always understood that food poisoning takes hold exactly within the time frame you suggest. Certainly the two times I've had it - with the exact same symptoms you describe - it's been 6 - 8 hours since eating and pretty violent. First stop GP maybe?

I'm only repeating what the registrar told me in hospital after a bad prawn sandwich - 36 hours to take effect (in the main) -and some take nearly a month to activate.

It's almost impossible to pin point where it came from

I read the 24 days thing and was amazed,didn't know it up could be incubated that long before it got going!

We ate out on saturday evening (we do cook usually honest!)at a very nice fish restaurant...we shared our meals, so if it was the fish,surely I'd be ill too? Though,thinking about it,he did have oysters,which I wouldn't touch with barge pole. It's the kind of restaurant that sells itself on everything being freshly caught/ethically sourced etc.

I assumed the chip shop just because their hygiene standards clearly aren't that great judging by the hairs in the sauce

I really hope its not noro virus. The flat could not accommodate both of us being in the state he's in at the moment poor bloke

No I threw it away notsofrownie - I was utterly revolted,particularly because of the kind of hairs they seemed to be.

W"hy on earth didn't you take the sauce back to the chip shop & complain!!!

Che I have been suggesting a trip to the GP for hours (I haven't gone back to bed for fear of him being sick on me whilst I sleep) but I don't think in his current state he would be able to without making a mess of himself/me/the surgery/car

I know about 15 friends/family who've had norovirus in the last week or two. It's seriously common at the moment, and incredibly contagious, so I wouldn't jump to conclusions about the chip shop.

Red - they were shutting as I went to get the food so wouldn't have been open by the time I'd realised and taken it back,so I just threw it away.

Projectile vomiting and diarrhoea could be norovirus in which case no one will thank you if you turn up to the GP and infect everyone.

You do have a point there noble How can you tell the difference between food poisoning and noro virus? Because bar me getting it too the symptoms are so similar? And,if DP does have noro,is it now inevitable that I will get it?

I will give the chip shop the benefit of the doubt and won't suggest it's their fault ,but shan't be using them again because of the hairs

If it's norovirus and he vomited all over the bed, I'd say it's likely you're going to catch it as it's highly contagious :(
However, I don't think it lasts long, usually a day or two.

I think the only way they can really tell the difference between a sickness bug and food poisoning is by sending a sample off for lab testing. I had campylobacter once and that's how they diagnosed me. Then Environmental Health contacted me and wanted to know everything I'd eaten in the last week, they said with campylobacter it was more likely something I'd eaten three days ago rather than the day before - it depends on the type of food poisoning. Because I was able to keep down water the only advice was to keep hydrated, ride it out, and take diarolyte to replace lost minerals.

I'd sit tight with your DH and see if the symptoms ease up. If he still can't keep water down, I'd phone NHS Direct for advice rather than pitching up at the GP just in case they'd rather you stayed away.

Thank you for the advice

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