Disclaimer: I know you are not my doctor and I will contact him if necessary.
Yesterday I ate my regular meals including a prawn cocktail (prawns in marie-rose sauce.)
The prawn cocktail tasted a little funny, but I went ahead anyway.
Today I felt fine and ate my lunch.
Soon after, I had to rush to the bathroom, where I had a swift bout of diarrhoea.
Since then I have felt fine (and my appetite is normal.)
Of course I will get medical advice if I get any further symptoms.
My question is - assuming the prawn cocktail was ‘off’, would it explain what happened?
A few months back I think I undercooked some hamburger. I had your symptom for around 10 days (but mostly lost my appetite). Do not recommend, would not try again.
It is fairly possible, seafood tends to go wonky fast. I have the joke “cast iron stomach” - to the extent of attending one SCA feast, eating the same meal as 90 percent of the people there [about 10 percent of us had allergies to one thing or another included in the feast] and while a reported 80 percent of the people got food poisoning, I did not [everybody except the infant in arms who only had milk] did end up with food poisoning. mrAru tends towards a ‘delicate’ stomach, though he will have issues because his sense of smell is slightly deadened from exposure to Ghu knows what while in the Navy - I will be the one that will point out that something smells off.
I did discover during chemo induced nausea that smells affect me strongly - to the point that to this date, 5 years after initial chemo, that even just the smell of an ‘Italian’ cooking [italian sausage, onions and peppers] can nauseate me. I discovered the smell back then triggered an immediate need to pull over, open the door to the car and vomit - I had to avoid a particular intersection on Wednesdays. Now the smell is still nauseating, but it isn’t an immediate vomit trigger.]
