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What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by kpil »

omilu wrote: post #13
kpil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a customer's perspective, it's really hard to prove, so I have rarely done anything when I have gotten ill. Most of the cases it's been rather mild symptoms and I have suspected the canteen at work for serving leftovers that probably hadn't been chilled fast enough. I've simply stopped eating things that I recognize from the past... I have also gotten sick from moules marinières where I suspect that they used th…

I've heard bad things about this fish, but I've had it raw as sushi a few times and nothing bad has happened.

I think the proper butterfish is something else entirely.

Escolar filets looks like big tuna filets.

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by naasking »

Gastrointestinal issues are almost never due to the last thing you ate, unless you're living in a third world country. It's usually the highly contagious norovirus, which you typically get from shared bathrooms and door handles. Most people just call it food poisoning because that's just how our brains work, as a protective bias.

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by naasking »

elorant wrote: post #11

Since last August, when I had a severe GERD issue that took six months to go away, I keep a very detailed daily journal of everything I eat, the time I eat it and any kind of symptoms it might be causing me even hours later. It's the best way, and probably the only one, to isolate foods that make my stomach upset. Now I can correlate symptoms with foods/hours and draw conclusions based on hard data. It has helped me…

> Now I can correlate symptoms with foods/hours and draw conclusions based on hard data.

Only if you repeatedly try the same foods to ensure you've avoided confounding variables.

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by plorkyeran »

omilu wrote: post #13
kpil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a customer's perspective, it's really hard to prove, so I have rarely done anything when I have gotten ill. Most of the cases it's been rather mild symptoms and I have suspected the canteen at work for serving leftovers that probably hadn't been chilled fast enough. I've simply stopped eating things that I recognize from the past... I have also gotten sick from moules marinières where I suspect that they used th…

I've heard bad things about this fish, but I've had it raw as sushi a few times and nothing bad has happened.

Small amounts of escolar is fine for most people, so if you're eating it in sushi rolls along with other types of fish you're unlikely to eat enough of it to run into trouble.

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by amelius »

elorant wrote: post #11

Since last August, when I had a severe GERD issue that took six months to go away, I keep a very detailed daily journal of everything I eat, the time I eat it and any kind of symptoms it might be causing me even hours later. It's the best way, and probably the only one, to isolate foods that make my stomach upset. Now I can correlate symptoms with foods/hours and draw conclusions based on hard data. It has helped me…

GERD can also be caused by bad posture (which is often a problem with IT folks).

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by dpark »

askvictor wrote: post #9
kpil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a customer's perspective, it's really hard to prove, so I have rarely done anything when I have gotten ill. Most of the cases it's been rather mild symptoms and I have suspected the canteen at work for serving leftovers that probably hadn't been chilled fast enough. I've simply stopped eating things that I recognize from the past... I have also gotten sick from moules marinières where I suspect that they used th…

There is no correct way to cook escolar aka butterfish aka olestrafish. It's banned for sale in some places, should be banned everywhere.

I've eaten escolar multiple times with no ill effects. I certainly think restaurants should educate people about the fish but I don't see that it should be banned.

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by jghn »

When people say they have "food poisoning" and blame it on something in particular I always point out that it's almost never what you think it is.

However, even knowing that doesn't help a whole lot with the queasiness that one associates with that food item. I've had a few GI bugs which have caused me to never be able to eat at the "offending" establishment ever again, even though I now the likelihood that the mental connection is correct is near 0

Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate

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Post by just4themoney »

jghn wrote: post #29

When people say they have "food poisoning" and blame it on something in particular I always point out that it's almost never what you think it is. However, even knowing that doesn't help a whole lot with the queasiness that one associates with that food item. I've had a few GI bugs which have caused me to never be able to eat at the "offending" establishment ever again, even though I now the likelihood that the menta…

I got sick drinking a bit too much limoncello once day. Now I can't stomach lemon flavored seltzer. I taste it and feel like I'm going to vomit.
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