Food poisoning-just had it and just found out I'm pregnant -Please help!

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I am going out of my mind.
Can someone tell me anything at all? Good news bad news? The doctors seems to say it's a waiting game. I am having a blood test today to try to determine what I had but my doctor won't say anything after I mentioned I'm so early onto my pregnancy. I know that during rapid cell grown (early on) is the absolute worse time to get it and I am now beside myself and convinced I will at best miscarry

Hi,
I had food poisoning when I was 9 weeks and was just as worried as you are.
After going to the doctors they gave me dioralite and told me to rest.
All was well and I now have a dd (age 3)
Take things steady and I send you luck and love.
Lou

I had very bad gastric flu when i was in the early atges of pregnancy with my ds. I was very poorly too but he is fine

try not to worry

But I've been reading up about the toxins in your body when you have FP and how they can have a devastating effect on the foetus and I can't help but worry.

PLease try and be calm as worrying will not do you or your little one any good at all.
The way I see FP is that the toxin is what yuou introduce (via the food) and your body then gets rid of it in the only way it knows how IYKWIM.
Try dioralite to replace fluids and other things you may have lost and then take yourself off to bed.

Only some types of food poisoning frantic - that's my understanding anyway.
Salmonella is horrid for you but AFAIK not a risk to an unborn baby unless you develop the high fever-type complications, and then it is the untreated fever that is most dangerous.
If it is not TMI, how long were you ill for and how truly poorly did you feel?

I was ill for two days and just assumed that it was the onset of morning sickness until the cramps started and the vommiting and diarrhoea (TMI) Then I couldn't move very well the following day as my muscles were aching so much (the doctor mentioned this was a direct result of the toxins in my system) I am feeling much better today although a little queezy.

Wishing you all the best, frantic. If you were over the worst in two days I would tend to be optimistic about the type of poisoning you had, but I'm not the one who is pregnant and I was a terrific worrier myself when I was, so lots of sympathetic vibes coming your way.
I must say I thought the commonest fp bugs (campylobacter and salmonella) were nasty for you but not normally risky to unborn babies. I think because it is overall a nastier bacteria, e coli is more of a worry, but AFAIK that lays you really low for more than 48 hours.
As Batters says, take it easy and please let us know how you get on - we'll all be rooting for you

feeling queezy is usually a good sign that pregnancy hormones are doing their thing and is common in early pregnancy so try to be positive.