# Food Poisoning \[MED, TMI\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-poisoning-med-tmi/226713>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-poisoning-med-tmi/226713 "2004-01-30T04:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Melraidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Melraidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melraidin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-poisoning-med-tmi/226713/1 "2004-01-30T04:52:30Z")

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Exactly a week ago I gave myself food poisoning. I was stuffing a pork tenderloin, got distracted, forgot to wash my hands, ate something, bad things happened. Now I’m looking for recovery recommendations.

[TMI]  
A few days ago, for the full day, I had diarrhea that was exactly reflecting what I had ate. I had rice, and drank lots of water, and that’s exactly what came back out. Literally, colourless water and barely digested rice. Wonderful.

Anyway, from my understanding of what has happened, a bacteria, possibly salmonella, ended up in my intestine, pretty much taking over the joint. Now there’s no more of the usual helpful bacteria left in there. What should/could I do to build my gut back up to its usual level of… guk? I’ve eaten a decent amount of active bacteria yoghurt, and other soft foods, but is there anything I should do to help myself along? Or is my understanding of what’s happened completely askew?