Toxic girl

[j4]

Health food is bad for you. All I've had today is a mug of sage tea (caffeine-free drink) and a load of pumpkin seeds (supposedly healthy snack), but something has managed to make me violently ill. I suspect the pumpkin seeds, because I felt okay (well, tired, but that's normal) until I'd had a few handfuls of them... after which I felt drowsy, headachey, and extremely nauseous, until actually being sick.

Is it possible for things to make you sick that quickly? If not then it must have been the steak at the Mill last night.

I am now at home, where I can lie down & feel grotty in peace. This does however have the welcome side-effect that I can listen to acronym on CUR1350 - hence the nicely appropriate subject line, because he's just dedicated the track of that name to me.

Comments

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

If it's the seeds, it's a remarkably fast reaction; have you eaten them before with impunity?

Sound shorrid, anyway; reast, drink liquid, and get well.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I have eaten them before but not for a very long time and probably not in such large quantities (never used to like them much, but would pick at one or two if they were there).

Am resting, but drinking water just makes me sick again. :-(

[nja.livejournal.com]

My mother's advice when I had this sort of thing* a couple of Christmases ago was not to eat or drink anything for 12 hours, apart from the odd drop of water to wash your mouth out and for comfort. She was right - anything else just came straight back up again. I didn't eat properly for about a fortnight. It's horrible, but it's one of those things you've just got to put up with. It probably is something you ate a few hours ago, not the pumpkin seeds, unless you've suddenly developed a violent allergy to them.

* Caused by a 2-year-old sticking her finger in my mouth, she was home from the nursery with a stomach bug.