Hi all.
I'm 20 weeks and feeling a little anxious that I may have had food poisoning and am now worried this may have harmed my baby.
Yesterday, my partner and I visited his mother. She cooked us all dinner around 5pm - sweet chili salmon fillets on a bed of noodles.
My partner and I were both knackered from the long week so decided to stay the night in the spare room and went to bed early around 9ish.
Shortly after heading to bed, I started getting awful stomach pain and I felt sick. The pain was agony, I was sweating and I felt "shaky". It didn't take too long for me to have to head to the bathroom where I had diarrhoea.
I headed back to bed, but the horrid stomach pains, sweating and tremble/shaking continued. Back to the bathroom I went with more diarrhoea.
Thankfully, getting it all out of my system on my second trip to the bathroom made me instantly feel a hell of a lot better, but exhausted. I drank a glass of water, laid down in bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
My thought is that it must have been the salmon. The only other things I had consumed all day was a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes and a banana.
Did I have food poisoning? My partner doesn't think so as he says food poisoning lasts for days. Whereas what I had lasted about an hour and I instantly felt better after a couple of trips to the loo.
But something clearly upset my tummy and made me unwell, even if it was only briefly and wasn't for days.
I'm now worried that whatever caused me to become unwell could have harmed my unborn baby. I'm 20 weeks pregnant and 4 days away from my 20 week scan.
Should I be concerned?