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

[k425.livejournal.com]

I'm going to disagree with just about everyone so far and say yes, it is possible for things to make you sick that quickly, but if pumpkin seeds haven't affected you before it could be aflatoxin or it could be something you ate further back that's causing the problem.

Nothing to eat for 12-24 hours. Drink water if you can. Actually, I prefer tonic water when I'm throwing up, and flat coke can be good too.

If you can't drink water for 24 hours without throwing up hie thee to thy GP or you'll get dehydrated.

Get well soon.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Yes, flat coke (with some added salt) was recommended to me as a rehydration fluid by my doctor when I had dysentery.

Just make sure it's real, not diet, coke - even if you normally go for the diet version.

[j4.livejournal.com]

even if you normally go for the diet version

Heh. Definitely not. I'd rather drink ditchwater! I loathe sweeteners, and diet coke doesn't even taste of anything except sweeteners. Full-fat coke for me every time. :-)

I must confess coke with salt in sounds utterly retch-making... may give it a try later but for now I think I'm just going to stick to ordinary coke.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Flat coke is good. A lot of people have now blamed aflatoxin so you're not alone... annoyingly I threw the remainder of the pumpkin seeds in the bin before coming home from work (I didn't want anybody else to eat them, and the web team tends to pinch each other's snacks) so I can't get them tested or anything! Not that I'd be able to anyway, but still.

Nothing to eat for 12-24 hours.

Annoyingly, I am now hungry. But my stomach still feels painful, though more like it's been kicked by a badger than like I'm going to be sick again.

Hmmm. What do you recommend, Ms krool nurse? :-)

[emperor]

If you've kept fluids down for several hours, then a little dry toast is probably safe (if exceedingly dull).

Damn !

[anat0010.livejournal.com]

What a sham a packet of toxic pumkin seeds could be fun. Your own do-it-yourself biological warefare kit. You could innoculate peanut butter with the mould spores to umm.. err.. wreak havoc in the peanut butter sandwhich constituent of society. Or umm.. stuff one in the water coolers throught Cambridge like an evil Johnny Appleseed.
Even better grind them up and stir into the tea of people at work who you dont like for an almost break for them.

Hours of fun for all the family.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Right. My Crool Nurse professional opinion and my Wot I Do opinion may vary here...

If I were in your shoes and were keeping down water without throwing up, or keeping down flat coke, I'd try something fairly easy to digest but something that I fancied. Rice is easily digestible but would you want to? No. Nor me. A plain biscuit, say a digestive, or a piece of toast. If that doesn't come back I'd assume that my system had chucked up everything that insulted it and go back to eating normally. Normally, that is, but a) light and b) careful. Don't have a slice of toast and then a curry, for instance!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the advice!
I had a piece of toast and so far (fingers crossed) am okay. Might make myself some pasta, plain pasta is usually a good bet when I'm feeling grotty.

I wonder if it would be silly to have the salad I made myself for lunch. (It has onions and olives and avocado in it.)

[k425.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is probably a bit late, but half of me says "if you fancy it, eat it" and the other half of me says "onions might be a bit much".

Me, I'd eat it.