Food poisoning

brettcta

i hope you haven't kept the stool sample in the fridge with your salads.

was it your own home-made salad that you ate or was it a restaurant bought one?

gordikin

GrumpyWithMoney wrote: »

As it was only last weekend, I intend seeing my GP tomorrow (today was fully booked!) and yes I did take a stool sample within 24 hours. But as others have said it may prove extremely difficult to prove it was the restaurant. I have been eating my home-made salads for years which are all prepared fresh from washed ingredients stored in the fridge. I had hoped the restaurant may have been a little more understanding and sympathetic as the evening had been ruined.

So you want the restaurant to admit liability without any reasonable proof they were at fault? What do you want?

brettcta

i like the cut of your jib gordikin

i've come yay close to leaving this thread as the OP seems dead set on blaming the fried egg and spinning a 'woe-is-me' tale against the restaurant

mustrum_ridcully

GrumpyWithMoney wrote: »

It sounds like it could be staphylococcal food poisoning which can take as little as 30 minutes.
Found this on a government website:

What are the symptoms of staphylococcal food poisoning? Staphylococcal toxins are fast acting, sometimes causing illness in as little as 30 minutes. Symptoms usually develop within one to six hours after eating contaminated food. Patients typically experience several of the following: nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and diarrhea. The illness is usually mild and most patients recover after one to three days. In a small minority of patients the illness may be more severe.

Did you not notice the paragraph before the one you quoted?

"Staphylococcal food poisoning is a gastrointestinal illness. It is caused by eating foods contaminated with toxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus . The most common way for food to be contaminated with Staphylococcus is through contact with food workers who carry the bacteria or through contaminated milk and cheeses. Staphylococcus is salt tolerant and can grow in salty foods like ham. As the germ multiplies in food, it produces toxins that can cause illness. Staphylococcal toxins are resistant to heat and cannot be destroyed by cooking. Foods at highest risk of contamination with Staphylococcus aureus and subsequent toxin production are those that are made by hand and require no cooking. Some examples of foods that have caused staphylococcal food poisoning are sliced meat, puddings, some pastries and sandwiches."

Your problem is you've decided it is the duck eggs and are determined to make the evidence fit. Take a step back and look what else could have caused the food poisoning - like the salad!

Also try doing a quick google for "duck eggs food poisoning", if you did that you'd find the most common cause is Salmonella. Symptoms of Salmonellosis appear after about 12 hours and last for several days.

brettcta

i really wish there was a high-5 option aswell as a thanks

ChrisCobra

I would have stopped eating as soon as i seen the shell.

Why didnt the OP?

Another example of a troll wasting his time or another example of a whiner who hasnt a pair of knackers to speak up for themselves.?

gordikin

brettcta wrote: »

i like the cut of your jib gordikin

i've come yay close to leaving this thread as the OP seems dead set on blaming the fried egg and spinning a 'woe-is-me' tale against the restaurant

My jib is so uncut! I've seldom come across anyone on MSE who has totally has ignored advice as much as GWM. We've gone from Salmonella in duck eggs to now Staph. aureus from the chef/prep guys because it 'fits'....it is so much more likely to be the lunchtime veg. or food consumed in the previous 24 hours than the starter. Sue the GF for paying for it!

GrumpyWithMoney

gordikin wrote: »

My jib is so uncut! I've seldom come across anyone on MSE who has totally has ignored advice as much as GWM. We've gone from Salmonella in duck eggs to now Staph. aureus from the chef/prep guys because it 'fits'....it is so much more likely to be the lunchtime veg. or food consumed in the previous 24 hours than the starter. Sue the GF for paying for it!

Thanks for your understanding. I have considered other's postings which has caused me to reconsider what the exact illnes may have been. I have not asserted it was the duck egg, only that it was a likely candidate after talking to friends. Also, I am not sure what the exact illness was, only that food poisoning seemed likely (despite assertions from others that it takes 8 hours to take effect). As you seem now to be suggesting that it was my home-made salad that I ate earlier, you may be right. However, it is only the same salad I usually eat without problem and which I have again eaten today. I do not expect the restaurant to admit liability, and it would seem almost impossible to prove unless lots of diners keeled over after eating there. So perhaps I should just forget it.

brettcta

a top policeman once said about terrorists: "we have to be lucky every time, they only have to be lucky once".

i know it may sound a bit far-fetched, but the same goes for bacteria & viruses. it only takes one little bit to get through the washing & preparation stage and you've got yourself food poisoning.

your last bit about forgetting it would be the best thing to do. you were unlucky that some bacteria survived your seemingly rigorous methods but lucky in that it was only a mild manifestation of whatever it was that had infected you. we all fall foul of a bit of food poisoning, no matter how mild or strong, at some point in our lives, there's not really much you can do beyond accepting what's happened & moving on.

gordikin

GrumpyWithMoney wrote: »

Thanks for your understanding. I have considered other's postings which has caused me to reconsider what the exact illnes may have been. I have not asserted it was the duck egg, only that it was a likely candidate after talking to friends. Also, I am not sure what the exact illness was, only that food poisoning seemed likely (despite assertions from others that it takes 8 hours to take effect). As you seem now to be suggesting that it was my home-made salad that I ate earlier, you may be right. However, it is only the same salad I usually eat without problem and which I have again eaten today. I do not expect the restaurant to admit liability, and it would seem almost impossible to prove unless lots of diners keeled over after eating there. So perhaps I should just forget it.

Your home made salad may or may not have been the cause of the problem...you don't know/I /we don't know. Realistically it could have been anything you had eaten in the previous 12-36 hours. On the balance of probabilities it's very unlikely to have been what you ate in the 1 hour previous to the onset of your symptoms though.