# Mild food poisoning (somewhat unpleasant content) just checking **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 13, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742 "2022-01-13T19:02:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/1 "2022-01-13T19:02:10Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/2 "2022-01-13T19:09:36Z")
> [@glee](#): > > My question is - assuming the prawn cocktail was ‘off’, would it explain what happened? do you have any leftover you could ask a friend to try? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/3 "2022-01-13T19:11:30Z")
Short answer, yes. Check out this list of lovely little bugs from the CDC. Many can check the box of symptoms after 24 hours. > **[Food Poisoning Symptoms](https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/symptoms.html)** > > Do you have food poisoning? Check this list to learn the signs and symptoms. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/4 "2022-01-13T22:20:08Z")
Folly, thanks for listing food poisoning stuff. Procrustus, I really hope you were joking. 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/5 "2022-01-13T22:21:54Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Procrustus, I really hope you were joking. Yep. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/6 "2022-01-13T22:51:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/7 "2022-01-14T00:16:25Z")
That happens to me occasionally, usually out of nowhere. It might have been the prawns, or maybe something else. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-food-poisoning-somewhat-unpleasant-content-just-checking/957742/8 "2022-01-15T10:50:48Z")
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.]