Would you report this to environmental health?

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Vegan 21 years.

Tuesday last week I ate out for lunch and within 4 hours was struck with diarrhoea. It got really bad at one point I was going every 15mins.

At first I thought it was booster side effects as had had that on the Monday. Spoke to 111 on Saturday when it just wasn't going then out of hours etc.

Anyway fast forward to having a stool sample etc and the result came back that it was Campylobacter bacteria usually caused by eating raw meat, undercooked meat or something that has come into contact with the above.

I'd obviously had a vegan meal. I'm pretty disgusted tbh. Would you report this? They want a lot of info like what I ate for 5 days before etc which I don't remember (but we have no meat In our house so it wasn't anything contaminated).

I'm fuming from a vegan POV and because what if it it had been my 79yo mum who was with me?

Report to environmental health surely?

I know you're right. I'm still so exhausted from it and I've still got it just not as bad.

Will do it Monday.

Honestly never let so ill 😡

You can get CB from pets, dirty nappies. Contaminated water or ice is also a source of infection. A proportion of cases occur following contact with contaminated water during recreational activities.

Campylobacter bacteria usually caused by eating raw meat, undercooked meat or something that has come into contact with the above.

I think you are being a bit unreasonable making the assumption that animal products must have been in contact with your vegan meal.

Yes, you should report it from a hygiene point of view. However, you can't assume that your food came into contact with meat though. Campylobacter is often present on raw fruit and vegetables, it is just less common than it is with raw meat. Ice is also another common source.

Turns out it wasn't meat but mushrooms! A mushroom pie. I got blinded by the GP telling me it was from meat.

My only bout of food poisoning was from a vegetarian meal. Probably cross contamination..
I would never have been worried about mushrooms though . Hope you are back to full health.

I believe it's the doctor surgery that notify the authorities anyway so you don't have to. If they needed more info from you they would call you.

It was awful but I lost a lot of so that was helpful!!