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Unexplained Vomiting
korriander
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Eight hours of uncontrollable vomiting is not so fun.
The last couple days I have had almost no appetite, but otherwise felt fine. Yesterday, I went to work super early, and a friend was nice enough to buy me a bagel and chai latte (my favorite combo). I had a plum and a small bag of broccoli with ranch for lunch, almost nothing, around 2 pm. I went home at around 8:30 pm, still feeling fine, and about fifteen minutes later the nausea hit. It took maybe two minutes to start throwing up, and that continued until somewhere between 3 am and 4 am. Here I am at home at the same time as yesterday, still very nauseous, but I haven't hurled since early this morning.
The weird thing is, I have no other symptoms of anything. No fever, no achy muscles or joints, no sore throat, no coughing, nothing. I have a slight headache today, but I pin that on only being able to keep down a single glass of water, and no food since yesterday. I can't afford a doctors visit right now, but I don't want to, you know, fall over and die of something either. Any ideas what's causing all this?
The last couple days I have had almost no appetite, but otherwise felt fine. Yesterday, I went to work super early, and a friend was nice enough to buy me a bagel and chai latte (my favorite combo). I had a plum and a small bag of broccoli with ranch for lunch, almost nothing, around 2 pm. I went home at around 8:30 pm, still feeling fine, and about fifteen minutes later the nausea hit. It took maybe two minutes to start throwing up, and that continued until somewhere between 3 am and 4 am. Here I am at home at the same time as yesterday, still very nauseous, but I haven't hurled since early this morning.
The weird thing is, I have no other symptoms of anything. No fever, no achy muscles or joints, no sore throat, no coughing, nothing. I have a slight headache today, but I pin that on only being able to keep down a single glass of water, and no food since yesterday. I can't afford a doctors visit right now, but I don't want to, you know, fall over and die of something either. Any ideas what's causing all this?
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Usually, not always but usually, it will start coming out the other end soon.
I got it twice recently, once in March and once last October. Took me a solid four or five days to get over it, and then the rest of the week to fully recover.
While recovering, Gatorade is your friend (it was for me, anyway).
Godspeed.
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Most importantly, find out what gave you food poisoning. If it was anything you had at home, make sure you get rid of it.
If the vomiting is excessive(to the point where you know you're not consuming adequate liquid to keep yourself hydrated) it's a perfectly legitimate reason to go to the emergency room so they can hook you up to an IV. (but by excessive, I mean you couldn't be sitting here typing right now)
I'VE never gone to the doctor for food poisoning, and I've had it about as bad as you (vomit, feel better for half an hour, vomit, repeat for 6-8 hours)but I was living with my parents and sister still so I had 24 hour coddling ^_^
For the record, everything I threw up after the first hour was bright yellow. I've heard that happens when you have not even stomach acid left to come up.
I tried to drink a little milk, and made it a couple sips before my stomach warned me to stop or else. I strongly dislike sports drinks, but I'll pick some up tomorrow. I'm going to be out in the sun all day at a car show, and far from home, so hopefully I won't majorly dehydrate or continue the vomit-breath-vomit-breath cycle.
BlochWave: No, no sour cream on my bagel, but I did have cream cheese, which I kept in the mini fridge at work, which has communal access and likely has had more people getting into it than just me. Also went to eat at Mustard Seed and had a lot of mushrooms and veggies in my dish. Mushrooms grown in fecal matter. Fecal matter means food poisoning, right?
It could also have been the extremely early season strawberries I've been chowing down on. They show up with mold today and I did toss them.
Mushrooms are grown in manure so that could be another cause.
Try drinking Pedialyte or at least water with some sugar and salt in it.
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1. It makes you a carrier in some cases.
2. Antibiotics give you more diarrhea.
3. Enterics go away on their own, so antibiotics don't help (they take 10 days to fully work).
4. Antibiotics are useless in this case and only perpetuate the super-bacteria problem.
Wait it out, stay hydrated, drink electrolyte thingies. If it lasts more than three days, go to the doctor.
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Let's go through this since you seem overly concerned
Mmm, yah, you're purging your stomach, you're gonna vomit til there's nothing bad, then a few more times for good measure, the human body is thorough like that. Who told you that anyways? The yellow stuff IS stomach acid, you're seeing that because you didn't have anything else to vomit
You..you drank milk while sickly and vomiting? I'm not being a prick when I ask this: Have you ever been vomiting sick before, or at least within memory? I've personally never downed a fresh glass of milk after a stint over the toilet, but my stomach is literally churning in agony at imagining it. If you wanna help settle the stomach, carbonation can help; a little sprite might help, or carbonated water. You need to drink fluids of course, but your stomach is like "oh goddammit I hate you" when you do, carbonated liquid for whatever reason doesn't piss it off as much. Gatorade and the like is good because of the electrolytes(if you went to the ER they would basically hook you up to an IV of fluids and electrolytes, which is basically unflavored unsweetened gatorade)
I meant cream cheese, sour cream on a bagel would be all wtfish. Meat's pretty simple, you can drop it on the floor, stick it down your pants, whatever, just cook it enough and it's all good. Dairy products, things like cheese, which are all, and let's be fair here, things allowed to carefully spoil, can be trickier. But it's not worth trying to figure out, no one can diagnose what caused it without careful analysis of what you ate, which became difficult as soon as you chucked it up
The way to get better from this sort of illness is to eat small amounts of carbohydrate rich, easily digestible foods and drink small amounts of salty sweet drinks frequently. Bananas, peeled apples, rice and white toast are all good options. Avoid anything fatty or now as well.
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Dry toast, crackers, maybe some fruit. That's the kind of thing you might be able to keep down.
Where I live we eat rice porridge when we're sick, but since you sound American I'm not sure what else you might do. Definitely no dairy.
It's hard to know what caused it - could have been the plum if it was dirty/contaminated enough. Hard to really know.
The main thing is to keep hydrated and to avoid pissing off your stomach to the point it triggers another lunch launching. Gatorade, Powerade, and the like are good, but nothing beats Pedialyte in this case- it was designed for this sort of thing.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Avoid dairy, avoid tomato products for a while (even if you think you're feeling better) unless you want to feel like you drank battery acid, stick to very bland stuff like crackers and toast. Suck down the pedialyte as much as you can, especially if you're still vomiting.
If you can't take the taste of it straight up, mix it with some sugar-free Koolaid or Crystal Light or whatnot - made a huge difference for me, I was getting dehydrated to the point where I was having dreams about being lost in the desert, and it's almost scary how much better I felt after getting hydrated again.
That would have been useful last night, before she sat down to have a glass of milk and started the vomit, bile, dry heave process all over again...
Live and learn.
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For the record, I haven't throw up due to illness in about... twenty years. Meaning, since I was two. I'm hoping for another twenty years of stomach acid free life after this, minimum.
Norwalk fucking wrecked my shit about six years ago. We had it go through a resort I was working at. I was one of the last to get it but since I'm immunosuppressed (kidney transplant) I had it for three days rather than the requisite 24 hours and was weak for three weeks.
That was a lot of fun, I tell you what.
Glad to hear you're feeling better, Korriander. There's little worse in life than food poisoning.
I got it by walking through a flooded bathroom at a resort.
Little did I know Norwalk could be transmitted by aerosol droplets, but holy...well...shit.
It was the one day of my life where I actually wanted to die.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
I'm a little late, but hey, whatever.
You have food poisoning like everyone said. I suffered from this about half a year ago. Really, really bad vomiting until you start dry heaving, this is not the bad part. The bard part begins when your body starts throwing up bile. This is mostly that yellow stuff you're seeing, the acid would've been purged before you started dry heaving. When bile hits water, it just sort of sinks in a clump, so you'll know when it's coming.
I had no "sickness" associated with my food poisoning other than the throwing up. No chills, no fever, but I was fucking exhausted and had the worst headache I've had in a long time.
As everyone said, don't take dairy. Relax, wait for yourself to stop throwing up, don't try and eat much until then, eat a few saltines to get rid of the particularly bitter aftertaste of the bile, though, if your body got that far. Once you stop throwing up, start recouping your fluids and eating some saltines to help your electrolytes (you'll feel shit-tons better, blue Gatorade is the best for this situation to help with the electrolytes because you don't want the yellow or red while you're having stomach issues to help you look for possible further issues).
The mushrooms may have been the cause, however, I suspect it was the broccoli. Broccoli has had a notoriously bad track record for food poisoning -- especially in sprouts which a lot of places are now using. Mushrooms not so much because they know it grows in those conditions and treat it in such a way that it shouldn't be a problem.
tl;dr, Sounds like you have a common E. Coli poisoning; keep your fluids/electrolytes up as best you can, if you can't or are still having trouble seek medical assistance immediately. Antibiotics will only make it worse, your body will get rid of it within 24-72 hours -- but may need help if you are having a hard time purging and replacing fluids.
EDIT:
You may also have a Norovirus (stomach flu).
EDIT: but yeah, mostly likely NOT food poisoning then. That tends to be "barf barf shit shit, done". Once you get stuff purged, you get better fairly quickly.
I spent the next three days either vomiting or with HORRIBLE diarrhea. Made me lactose intolerant for like three months too. (that might have been mental)
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