Food poisoning or car sickness

[MissusTweedy]

I wondered if anyone could help - dd 13 was just very sick within half an hour of eating chicken nuggetts from mcdoodles - she had been on a car journey for a couple of hours and was fine up to half an hour after eating. She hasn't been sick since or been to loo - is now home - I should know this because I had bad food poisoning from mcd's a few years back but I think it was not immediate onset. I also had food poisoning in kfc in hawaii once too but that was more or less within a couple of hours and I put it down to the butter on the sweetcorn being off...sorry am rambling a bit here

Thanks

30 mins seems very quick to be sick after. I'd see how she goes, if she is having more vomitting and diarrhoea and not tolerating any fluids then it could well be food poisoning but, does seem a bit too soon after to say for sure.

She is saying that her tummy is hurting quite a lot and looks very white. I have asked her if there is any chance she could have left a tampax in, as she recently tried them (has been having periods since yr 5!) - I will take her temperature now

No temp, says her stomach is hurting very badly - any ideas please?

Tummy bug?

Could be - I've just done the nhs symptom checker - if I put severe pain it says to call an ambulance, if I put not severe then it says to speak to advisor - am I over-reacting I wonder. She's been away at Dad's all week and this is the first time she has felt ill.

Trying to dredge up some info from the microbiology section of my degree many years ago. I seem to recall that unless you ate a large spoonful of neat bacteria there was at least a 4 hour time delay between ingesting infected food and food poisoning symptoms. For different bacteria the time delay could be as long as 24 hours for bacteria to have multiplied to sufficient numbers to make you ill. This explains why it is often so difficult to isolate what food or where the source of infection is.
To be ill within half an hour suggests a different infection, allergy, car sickness, bad luck etc.
Hope she's feeling better soon and it didn't ruin your day. On the upside the connection with vomiting and McD's may be enough to put her off for a long time.

If she is having abdo pain then it's probably a sign of D+V to come...

Thanks for the replies. I phoned NHS direct and they rang back pretty much within half an hour, and not the 2 hours they said. DD was being sick again when they rang, so I was able to check how it was (she'd been with Dad the first time so didn't really know whether blood in it etc). They gave me the run through with questions; can she put chin on chest, is she very cold etc etc anyway all checked out ok, and they concluded that it had been from the food she had eaten as she had been that sick within a short time frame. She's now feeling much better, is on dioralyte 20mls every 10 mins and so far so good nothings come back up!

Hurrah, going to have a bath now.