This is a different kind of review... what I think of food poisoning.

Wow - sorry to hear about your luck. Oysters at a Sports Bar??? You are a brave, brave man, my friend.
 
Hope you get well soon.

One thing I use ....as I travel a lot in Africa and let's say it's starve or gamble after a few days ........ activated charcoal. When I start feeling bad ... I take 2 large desert spoons with water. If still bad ..... another dose in 2 hours. And then I have to wait for it too work whilst keeing hydrated. For hydration I mox 2 t/spoons suger, 2 t/spoons tabe salt and 2 qts of water.

I have also used the black charcoal from a fire ...... but don't use the white ash ...... it will aggrevate the situation and don't use charcoal from any poisonious plant. We have a oily wood here that is fatal to BBQ on and the charcaol will also kill you. YMMV ;-)
 
Activated charcoal is awesome! I disolve a spoonful in distilled water and drink it every other day. Good for detoxification. Think of it as a sponge for chemicals and toxins... it doesn't work on patheogens(sp?) parasites or viruses, though. Use distilled water if you can... you get the most out of the charcoal that way.... if not its like taking a bath in second hand water.

Rick
 
At least you realize that you shouldn't have eaten oysters at the sport's bar in central GA. Did they taste off? I've ordered raw oysters before and after I tried one I told them that they did not taste fresh and I was immediately refunded. I would definitely give the place a call so they can get rid of their current batch of oysters, and report them to the health dept. if you want, but if you don't want to report them you have to at least let the restaurant know.

I've got what I consider to be an iron stomach, I've regularly been the only one in groups of people who all ate the same thing to not get sick.

The main risk with prolonged vomiting/diarrhea is a decrease in electrolyte levels. I have a bottle of K-dur tablets (Potassium Chloride) that I bring along with me on extended trips. Potassium is of critical importance, as it is plasma potassium levels that more or less regulate the cellular levels of the other electrolytes (Calcium is also very important for it's role in muscle contractivity, but our bodies have nice big stores of that in our bones should we need it).

Also distilled water would not be helpful when you are actually sick, in fact it would make things worse as your electrolytes would be further diluted.

As a raw seafood lover (sushi, oysters) and as someone who also loves mussels, I know that every time I eat some I'm running the risk of getting very sick. But I love the stuff, so it's worth the risk. I just try to be smart about where I eat this kind of stuff. Busy Japanese restaurant = good, truck stop=bad. Watch out for that truck stop sushi.
 
cmdionne said:
Also distilled water would not be helpful when you are actually sick, in fact it would make things worse as your electrolytes would be further diluted.
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I have also heard that distilled water can actually rob your body of minerals... I can't back that up with any evidence.... I have heard it a few times.

I was simply refering to taking a dose of charcoal with distilled water, not rehydrating yourself with it.:thumbup:
 
Magnussen said:
I have also heard that distilled water can actually rob your body of minerals... I can't back that up with any evidence.... I have heard it a few times.

I was simply refering to taking a dose of charcoal with distilled water, not rehydrating yourself with it.:thumbup:
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I understood what you meant about how to use the distilled water, I just wanted to clarify.

Distilled water contains nothing but pure water, so by drinking it you are diluting the electrolytes already in your blood into a greater volume of water. It doesn't "rob" you perse, but it does dilute your blood, and a decrease in electrolyte levels can become dangerous.

As long as you are hydrated correctly a glass or two won't hurt a healthy person, but if you're severly dehydrated and drink a few gallons of distilled water, it could be bad times.
 
Thanks for adding info guys. I called the place and told them what happened. They offered me free stuff and to refund my check and assured me that they were going to remedy the kitchen. I told them not to worry about free stuff. I don't know why. I'm just that way. It made me feel good that they offered. That was enough for me.

I couldn't tell if they were off at the time. To be honest, I was pretty off. I had quite a few suds by the time I ordered them so I only tasted cocktail sauce. Alcoholic beverages really stain my palate, which is why I normally don't drink until after I eat, but I did that night and that's why I couldn't taste anything wrong.

That's a good bar. I would still recomend the place. Just don't get the f@#$in oysters. lol. All of their other food is awesome.

My father-in-law isn't holding a grudge. We were laughing about the whole thing last night, comparing toilet stories like "almost didn't make that one".
 
I think I'll add a little story to this. I wouldn't call it full blown food poisoning because there was no vomiting involved.

My Mom had been saying she wanted to go to St Augustine, but never had anyone to go with; so, one day we headed East to A1A and drove up the coast to St Augustine. We walked around in St Augustine for a while and it started to rain pretty hard; so, we made it back to my Jeep and left. It was about 1400hrs and I was getting hungry and wanted seafood, since we were on the coast. We stopped at this little place that had a nice view of the ocean and ate. This place had the hugest selection of seafood I'd ever seen, like 50 different types of fish, all kinds of crabs and molusks, etc. I don't remember what I ate, but it wasn't anything fancy; probably some sort of fish. We left the seafood shack and headed north; I wanted to try this road that I thought might take us into Palatka. It had been about 30 minutes since we left the seafood shack and it started.

My stomach was getting pretty bloated and making all kinds of uncomfortable sounds and squirmings. It didn't feel unusual, though; I figured I could make back home. (Because, I got food poisoning in the Middle East a long while ago, and I've always had GI problems ever since.)

I stopped at a gas station to take a leak, and while in the middle of peeing into the urnal, my pee stream just stopped. I looked down, thinking wtf? My stomach made a hideous lurching sound and movement and...well...I was no longer in control of my body.

I crapped my pants, like a little baby with no control at all. It was a horrendous mess that I wasn't able to clean up because the damn bathroom had no tissue, no paper towels.

I stripped totally naked, shoes and all, because crap was everywhere, all over shoes, the floor, the toilet, my t-shirt, everywhere. There was some divine intervention that spared my pants and socks. I took a whore-bath in the bathroom like a bum would do. My underwear and t-shirt went in the trash, and I cleaned up the bathroom the best I could, which wasn't much at all, and walked out the door.

It's not over yet. The Hindu gas station attendant was waiting for me. He asked me like 5 times why I took around 30 minutes in the bathroom. I told him I was sick, and he started to block me from leaving the store and said he was going to call the police. I don't know what he thought I was doing in there; it must have been something illegal, I guess.

He wouldn't get out of the way and let me leave, even after I re-explained that I was feeling sick, and just wanted to leave; so finally, I grabbed him and threw him to the side and walked out the door.

I climbed back in the Jeep, and my Mom says, "Honey, are you alright? You were in there a long time."
 
Wow dude. You might not have felt as bad as me, but i definitely think you still had it worse. LOL. That sucks bro. Very amusing story though! HAHAHAHA!
 
mashing up some good black charcoal chunks from the fire in water will help cleanse your stomach.

If you don't happen to traveling with a small contingent of contributing editors from the New-england Journal of Medicine. ;)

EDIT: Opppsss, its been said, sorry there's alot of reading to catch up on.
 
wulfshrunting said:
I think I'll add a little story to this. I wouldn't call it full blown food poisoning because there was no vomiting involved.
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Gosh, that was a rough one to read. Funny, though, in a 'I'm so glad that didn't happen to me' sort of way.

I have never had food poisoning, but I have eaten with groups and been the only one to come through the experience unscathed. I recall a particularly brutal outing at a friend's cottage. One night we decided to stop into town and eat at the local Chinese buffet. After a few hours of all you can eat grub (including some shellfish), we returned to the cottage stuffed. Around 2:00 am, everyone except me was suddenly hit by horrendous food poisoning. It was like clockwork. I felt fine, but the sights, smells and sounds of the other guys were too much to bear, so I wound up spending the rest of the night on the porch. When I went back inside in the morning, the cottage looked like a scene from "Outbreak". If I were a better man, I would be able to say that I spent the morning helping to clean up and ensuring that my buddies were ok. Instead, I shamefully departed for a relaxing morning of paddling and fishing.

Despite my flawless record, I think that this thread will come to mind next time I'm at a sports bar and tempted to order oysters.

All the best,

- Mike
 
In addition to not eating oysters in a sports bar, here's another one my dive partner and I learned the hard way: When staying at an all-inclusive resort in Cancun/Cozumel, never eat anything that could have been chilled, stored, re-heated, and served again. Eat only food freshly prepared in front of you. The paramedics at the Dallas airport can confirm this advice based on many experiences each month.

DancesWithKnives
 
Dylside said:
Wow dude. You might not have felt as bad as me, but i definitely think you still had it worse. LOL. That sucks bro. Very amusing story though! HAHAHAHA!
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I laugh about it now, but at the time it was worse than not funny at all.

I now carry immodium, baby-wipes, and a full set of spare clothes with me in the Jeep.
 
I had a post typed up, but apparently I timed out and the stupid ass thing erased it...

so I'll just say: food poisoning sucks donkey balls.

charcoal/water mix if you can choke it down. mix in some pine needles to kill the taste.

Rhubarb and sassafrass are good for bad guts. Eases nausea.
 
I do not eat kosher, however if you really think about it.... Shell fish are like little water filters taking garbage out of the ocean/waterways- not kosher. Crabs, lobsters, shrimp etc eat dead things that clean the ocean floor or float around-not kosher. So, if you are what you eat, then these animals eat dead/toxic things, and then we eat the dead/toxic things that they eat. It is no wonder more do not get sick from this. A fish to be kosher must have fins and scales-mainly eat live things. Catfish and sharks have a "skin" without scales, so they are not kosher. I believe the kosher designation was a guide for healthy eating in an age where modern medicine could not help and ingestion could have proven deadly.
 
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