So, when doing the dishes today, I was emptying out a pot of boiled chicken water from the night before, when some of the water spilled out via being bumped, some drops ended up in my eye, and on my face… .
I know that several virus can be spread via different entry points of the body, but can you get food poisoning (or some other “sickness”) if you get “chicken water” into your eye???
Just wondering. Thanks!
It’s technically possible, but so unlikely that it’s not even worth considering.
It’s been boiled…it’s the same water that was in the chicken you ate. It’s perfectly safe (assuming the chicken was fully cooked).
Now, if you were thawing the chicken in that water and then cooked it by a different method and splashed some of it in your eye, I’d be more concerned.
FTR, Hot Ham Water, also safe.
If you’re going to get all paranoidy about it, used boiled chicken water thats been left out (or even in the fridge) too long could go bad, so you’ld have different bugs than salmonella to worry about.
This reminds me of a Dear Abby type letter/response I read once where the reader was worried about AIDS, in particular, and other infections in general: when you poop in a public toilet, and a water-droplet up splash goes right into the bulls-eye before the blink is over, as it were. I’ve always remembered that, for some reason.
thanks, now we’re all going to remember it too.:rolleyes:
And if it’s cooked chicken water, what a waste! Should make chicken soup with it! (With matzo balls!)
Mmmm, so watery! And yet there’s a smack of ham to it.
Ahh, no, for precisely the same reason that it wouldn’t be safe to eat the chicken after it had been left sitting on the benchtop all night.
The risk of anyhtingnasty being contracted via the ye is remote. That’s not remotely the same as saying that the water is safe to eat, or that it is the same as the water in the chicken.
Boiled chicken water - you mean a few spices and veggies short of chicken soup? Chicken soup does not turn poisonous over night if you leave it at room temperature because the pot is to big to fit into the refrigerator, and people cooked large enough batches of chicken soup to last for more than one meal long before refrigerators were invented.
:dubious: Most sensible people at least left it cooking that whole time. Boiled chicken water is an ideal bacterial growth medium; my recollection from working in labs back in college is that labs use a literal “broth” to grow their bacterial and other cultures. Any time you do something like that, you’re playing roulette with your guts.
To the OP: If you got something via your eye, it wouldn’t technically be “food poisoning” as most people would think of it, as you wouldn’t develop the same symptoms of GI problems. My husband picked up strep or staph bacteria in a hospital while visiting his mom, apparently wiping it into his eye, and he got an eye infection (keratitis) from it. Hospital bacteria are relatively nasty, however, and he wears contacts so those probably provided a way for the bacteria to “stick around” in the eye.