What’s happening here? I’m sure everybody has the experience-you eat something-and within 10-20 minutes, you have to run for the bathroom.
Is it because the food was spoiled?
Recently, I had a well-cooked hamburger at a friend’s house-five minutes later, I had a searing abdominal pain, and had to go to the bathroom. After discharging, I was fine.
Was the meat bad?
well…depends upon your species…
are you a vulture? then it’s not bad.
a crow? still not bad.
a dog or of the canis species? still…not bad.
are you human? you humans can be fussy. don’t blame the food…
There are forms of food poisoning that can work within 10-20 mins really quickly.
Staph and Bacillis Cerus come to mind as the big guys who have VERY fast reactions like that- where you get really sick and then it’s pretty much over vs. the others that can cause GI problems for several days, those guys usually take a few hours to kick in.
But staph and B.Cerus can make preformed toxins that can upset the GI tract immediately and then when they’re flushed out it’s over.
I like pork, but I don’t order it while out because the bathroom always beckons within an hour of eating it.
Monosodium glutomate does that for me. 20 minutes and :::whoooooshhshhsshshsh::: All out! MSG is in many flavor enhancers. Maybe it was added to part of that meal.
This reminds me of a question that’s always interested me. Are the calories, vitamins, etc. in the food you blow out immediately pretty much wasted? Are your last couple meals wasted too? In other words, does the small intestine do its job quickly or slowly?
Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) provoke pretty rapid and amazing bouts of flatulence.
That happens to me sometimes, especially with fast food burgers. Consume, and then within 15-30 minutes run to the bathroom. Hence, I try to avoid them.
I have Crohn’s disease, but I used to get this even before the Crohn’s started up, so I think it’s unrelated. I’m pretty sure I’m not “evacuating” the current meal, as it were. The current meal just stimulates the Gastrocolic reflex, whereby the stomach stretching stimulates the colon to empty it’s contents. So you’re getting rid of yesterday’s food, not the food you ate 15 minutes ago.
Really? I think you may be mistaken.
When the urge overcomes one 10 -20 minutes after eating, what comes out isn’t what was just eaten. We all have, to a greater or lesser extent, triggers that say “it’s time.” Ten to twenty minutes isn’t unusual.
ralph124c, are you over 40? Are you fair skinned? Are you overweight? Are you flatulent?
If you answered yes to a couple of those, you may have early cholecystitis (inflamation of the gall bladder). Fatty foods can trigger explosive diarrhea.
I don’t know about this. Once my whole office (a small office, to be sure) went out to lunch to this new, very fancy place–they had been upscale caterers and then they opened a spot. Within 20 minutes of getting back to the office we were all standing in line for the restroom (there was only one) and this continued for about an hour, after which we all decided to close up early and go home.
You’re going to tell me that wasn’t food poisoning?
“Blackened” anything sends me to the loo. So does coffee. I don’t mind not eating blackened stuff, but I really miss coffee.
Toejam is right, B. cereus and Staphylococcus aureus contamination can both cause vomiting and general unpleasantness in less than an hour. They do so because the generate toxins while growing in the food itself. Ingesting the bacteria is meaningless in these examples, it is the gulping big dose of exotoxin you just ate that makes you sick. Interestingly, different bacterial toxins may be heat labile or heat stabile. This means that once the toxin is formed, heating the food may or may not remove the toxin’s ability to make you sick, even though the offending bacteria have all been killed.
Botulism is the same way (but usually with canned foods) in that it makes its poison while in the can. That is why cans which have expanded from bacterially produced gasses are so dangerous. If Clostridium botulinum has been making botulism toxin, then the can will swell with gas, and it will be filled with a neurotoxin that will paralyze you and possibly kill you. C. botulinum is one of the big killers of home canned produce fans.
Other food borne pathogens like Salmonella are ingested, and then they actively grow in your gut and cause disease until your body contains and kills them. That is why they take longer to make you sick, but they last for a much longer period of time.
Long story short, don’t leave food at room temperature for long periods of time, and don’t eat canned goods that have been compromised. Doing so doesn’t guarantee that you will get sick, but it makes it possible.
Ooh, how do I put this? Sometimes it’s not hard to tell which meal you’re getting rid of, just by looking. I’ve gone through what the OP describes, often after eating out, and whatever the cause was it definitely got rid of whatever I’d just eaten.
I recall one time I hadn’t eaten for well over 24 hours, I was functioning on coffee, 'cause I was repairing and updating the comptuers at a hotel I worked at.
I found a small jar of sunflower seeds, salted. Now I love sunflower seeds, and I at the whole jar in like 10 minutes. That shot RIGHT through me. I guess the fiber in the seeds didn’t have nothing to react with
Thanks for the back up there, always appreciated. 
If someone would like a cite or such just lemme know and I can scrounge about. Or you can just Wikipedia those guys or “enterotoxins” and look for these specific bugs.