food poisoning or flu?

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Haven't eaten for 2 days, vomiting, couldn't move at all yesterday, bit better today. No one else in the family is ill.

May have been seafood?

Food poisoning or stomach bug generally results in bouts of vomiting/diarrhoea within a few hours of eating the contaminated food. Once the contaminant has exited the system, if you don't add to the stomach contents by eating or drinking anything other than water, then you should see a slow recovery.

A virus can be more persistent.... Still helps to rest the gut completely with no food or drink other than water for 24 hours. Dioralyte sachets help with rehydration in both cases.

If you're still vomiting 2 or 3 days later then see a doctor.

Oh bugger

We have had a bug that started like that - we're just getting over it now five weeks later! The kids got sick much later.

If you have poisoned yourself you won't be sick for much longer. You'll just be knackered for a week or so. What's your temperature like - with food poisoning, outside of the periods when you are being sick, your temp will be normal. If it's a virus you may well show fever.

Good point re: temperature. Don't seem to have one, so guess food poisoning.

Weird thing is that after not eating for 2 days and only drinking water, still not hungry . Had a few bites of rice last night at DP's insistence.

Didn't know though that 'Come Dine with Me' was on all afternoon....

It's quite normal to have anorexia after a vomiting bug. Don't worry it doesn't last. Proper white crusty bread, proper butter, make toast, see how you feel.

Hope you feel better soon.

WMMC - do you mean you were vomitting for 5 weeks???

You can get a fever with food poisoning. I once got salmonella from under cooked chicken and had a raging fever with it.

"It's quite normal to have anorexia after a vomiting bug."

Rubbish.... it's normal to have a loss of appetite after being sick. Anorexia is a serious and often fatal mental illness, not a temporary loss of appetite. Don't trivialise it.

Chil1234 - which is noted in medical terminology as anorexia. Not the same as anorexia nervosa which is a serious illness.

Avocadoes - yep, it's been investigated but it is just a virus apparently

anorexia just means loss of appetite. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder.

Chil1234 - actually some food poisoning bugs can take up to 72 hours to cause symptoms. Not all cause vomiting, not all cause diarrhoea. Some cause prostration, some don't.
And what the others said about anorexia - orexia = appetite, an = absence or lack of, therefore anorexia = absence/lack of appetite. Not the same as Anorexia nervosa and certainly not trivialising it.

I'd avoid fat for a day or so - let the gut settle down again. My fave pick-me up afterwards was Bovril on toast but I realise that wouldn't work for a lot of people!
Did you have any diarrhoea as well? Somewhere I have a list of which bugs do what but not sure where and it probably doesn't matter if it's finished now.

That is terrible WMMC. I have never heard of anything like it. I hope the kids had a shorter version and that you are better soon.

Nevertheless thumbwitch, no doctor would take someone with a temporary loss of appetite and seriously say to them 'you've got anorexia'.... In common parlance 'anorexia' and 'anorexia nervosa' are one and the same.

not really - many old people have anorexia as well. It's a common problem and it's not Anorexia nervosa.

can you just accept you are wrong on this chil? It's in my medical notes and I questioned it too and was told it's the common medical term for being off your food.

Avacadoes - thanks for the sympathy, the kids only got sick for two days. I got a form of reactive arthritis, vomiting, chills, etc for ages. But it's going now. I'm just achey, tired and apparently anaemic.