Recalled Peanut Butter > Bladder Infection

Horus

I just put 2 and 2 together and I think my UTI may have been caused by the Peanut Butter contamination. Costco sent me a letter basically telling me my purchases where part of the recall. I bought them mostly fourth quarter of 2008 (alot of them). They where my lunch snacks so I ate a hefty amount. So I am going to bring this up to me doctor see if it would help get rid of it (have 3 months with UTI flares out). Before that I want to ask here does my logic make sense? I googled this and saw that e coli = salmonella can cause UTI. So what does everyone think?

Dark Moon

Seems really, really unlikely. Ingested salmonella, if you ate enough for it to present a health risk, would colonize somewhere in your gut, not your urinary tract. To get to your urinary tract from somewhere else in your body the infection would have to go systemic, which would be characterized by a trip to the hospital and likely death before it got around to growing in your UT. Pretty much the only way for a bacteria to colonize your UT is to crawl in. Now, if you were fucking the peanut butter rather than eating it you may want to bring it up with your doctor.

Also, E.coli=/=Salmonella sp., so if you've already confirmed it's an E. coli infection you can completely rule out the peanut butter.

Gdiguy

Dark Moon wrote: »

Now, if you were fucking the peanut butter rather than eating it you may want to bring it up with your doctor.

While hilarious, this is basically true... and just to be repetitively clear, like the above poster said, this is the equivalent of saying "I ate peanut butter, and got the ebola virus, they must be connected!" They're two totally different infectious agents.

http://www.about-salmonella.com/salmonella_symptoms_risks

Salmonella can cause three different kinds of illness: gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, and bacteremia.

Symptoms of Salmonella gastroenteritis include diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever, nausea, and/or vomiting. In mild cases diarrhea may be non-bloody, occur several times per day, and not be very voluminous; in severe cases it may be frequent, bloody and/or mucoid, and of high volume.

Fever generally occurs in the 100°F to 102°F (38°C to 39°C) range. Vomiting is less common than diarrhea. Headaches, myalgias (muscle pain), and arthralgias (joint pain) are often reported as well. Whereas the diarrhea typically lasts 24 to 72 hours, patients often report fatigue and other nonspecific symptoms lasting 7 days or longer.

RUNN1NGMAN

If you had eaten salmonella-contaminated food daily and gotten sick, you would have known it. Imagine all the fluid in your body exiting out your ass and mouth, simultaneously.

Horus

Phew at least i got that scared away thank you.


Now, if you were fucking the peanut butter rather than eating it you may want to bring it up with your doctor.

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EggyToast

I got salmonella when I was a teenager. It is nothing at all like a UTI or bladder infection.