Hygiene and thoroughy cooked foods.

[southern bigfoot]

I very recently suffered at the hand of a poorly prepared chicken and seafood dish and thought it was an interesting (thoroughly mentally straining as well as physically) experience I would not like to have outside the comfort of my humble home with all mod cons (including flushing toilet, I should know a great deal about this one I tested it too many times to mention and the flushing function works great!)

My ordeal really started in traffic on the way back from work but I held on, made it home and spent the next 4 days making non-existent foodstuff exit my body:barf:, hanging out with a fever of about 40 C (about 104 F) and in the end I had (have) lost about 10% of my bodyweight (I started pretty lean too) and have as much energy as an asthmatic ant with a heavy load of shopping!

Transfer me outside in a tent on a hill far far from the luxury of running water and flushing toilets and I'd be TOAST.

I don't think I'd be able to hike with 2 doz rolls of poo tickets

Seriously though food hygiene is pretty crucial and I think I'll be over-cooking all my foods when I'm out hiking from now on, just to be sure.

 

[nick-nack]

Same here -
Dont eat at the Burger King on George St in Sydney.
Got food poisoning, it has a strange effect - like any teen that was and my only meal of the day. Ate at around 11 then went to watch a movie with my girlfriend. Around 1pm I got a headache so bought a drink to watch the Chinese festival. Those drums did not help. Spent the next two hours draggin my butt home by walking to Town Hall then walking my way back to the inner west.
Not a pleasant ride considering I practically ran the last kilometre to get to the toilet.

 

[kgd]

Sorry to hear about your misfortunes SBigfoot. There aren't much things worse then a bad case of gut flu! Strangely, most everybody I know who came down with food poisoning did so with commercially prepared food. I just think food tends to hang around longer in commercial establishments and has a higher chance of contacting surfaces contaminated with food residues.

At home, with a bit of care and paying attention to packing dates on meats this seems to be much less of an issue. Although I rarely buy ground beef for the same reasons above. Take care in how you pack your materials for the woods. Make sure you double ziplock any meat that will go in the cooler so it doesn't directly contact water from melted ice. If you are going out longer, then switch to the dehydrated meals or dried sausages etc. which have a much longer shelf life.

 

[Bushman5]

I once spent a few hours in a downpour, my intestines leaving my body. poor food handling by a member in our camp....grilled chicken and then transfered it back onto the same cutting board the raw chicken had been prepped on.

I pretty much let the rain do the cleaning, i musta drank about 3 liters of water to flush my system. felt pretty weak the next day.

 

[tonym]

Got food poisoning from seafood(clams and Mussels) that my wife prepared. I must have ate 1 that wasn't open, since I was the only 1 that got sick. The cramping and dry heaving when there was jut nothing left to come out was the most pain I ever experienced. Brought me to my knees. Don't ever want to experience that again!

 

[Pilot1]

Ouch! It makes you just want to die. I usually just carry freeze dried meals when in the field, so I know it won't get me sick. The only thing I eat fresh is fish that I catch and I cook them well.

I got food poisining once from an undercooked swordfish dinner at a restaurant and had to get on a commercial airliner the next day back to Denver. Not pretty. If you're gonna get it, get it AT HOME.

:grumpy:

 

[eomeo]

One time in Guayaquil some friends and I got some cheesy bread and went to a movie. By the time we got home 3 hours later, 4 of us had some nasty reactions. 4 guys in a cheap hotel room, 90 degrees, 1 bathroom.... it was a rough night.