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My wife got sick after eating at certain restaurant, I think I narrowed it down to one in north of the villages due to the time line. Has anybody else gotten sick after dining up there? I won’t name the name of the restaurant due to bad publicity if so just answer yes and not name the restaurant.

If someone had gotten sick after eating at a DIFFERENT restaurant which is also north of the villages, how would you know that they were or weren't talking about the same restaurant, if you don't name names?

Did your wife's doctor confirm that it was food poisoning? If not, how do you know it was caused by the food? Also if it was e.coli, it can take up to 2 weeks to show ANY symptoms at all, and you wouldn't necessarily know that food had been contaminated. So it's entirely possible that she already had been infected by e.coli, and the day she got sick, she would've gotten sick whether she ate out or not.

Rather than play guessing games on a web forum, why not find out for sure? Or did you already get a diagnosis and are now checking for the source of the diagnosed illness?

I agree.

Apparently the O.P. ate there too and didn't get sick.

No, I didn’t eat there too, I will not mention restaurants ( other than bad service ) cause I don’t want to cause them financial burden. If you didn’t get sick, I don’t want to here it.

Yes I did get sick once after eating at a restaurant north of 466. It was in January 2018. What does that prove?

Nothing it was 11 months ago. Yes, I restrained myself being nice with my response.

Yes, I have a friend who was recently hospitalized with confirmed food poisoning. It was narrowed down to cheese. I wonder if it was the same restaurant.

I am hoping that your wife is better. I have thought about the both of you since you posted this. I was hoping that it was a 24 or 48 hour bug and that she is feeling better again. What a bad time of the year to be sick.

Tops,

Please call the restaurant manager and let them know about the possibility.

I have had food poisoning, a few times, that I was sure came from restaurants. — not in TV.

One was a steak salad in a chain. (What was I thinking. I cannot look at a steak salad since.)

Once was a quiche in a coffee shop.

Once was from a fancy, schmancy resort. (A bunch of people got that one.)

Each time, I called and (nicely) told the manager what I suspected. I had no intention of pursuing anything other than notifying them that they definitely needed to check for a problem and fix it.

I was very nice and not accusatory, at all, but simply said they needed to find out. I got through it, one time lost 9 pounds, but not everybody can bounce so easily.

The coffee shop manager was lovely and thanked me and said she would follow through. I had told her to pull the quiche and talk to the staff. That is all I wanted.

The chain restaurant manager immediately went defensive. (I was not going to do anything to him but he could not grasp that I was not expecting an admission of guilt. He was one of those people who could not stop running his mouth long enough to hear what I was actually saying. I hope I finally got through to him to just please check. That was the place that lost me 9 pounds. Ice was it for me for 3 or 4 days.)

Tops, I hope you will call the suspected restaurant just to let them know what happened so they can follow through. That possibly could help others.

Apart from sea food, mainly anything with a shell, one of the biiggest causes of stomach sickness is unwashed salad.
When abroad, salad washed in dodgy water, is the biggest cause of the gipps.

I've heard of a stomach virus going around that's nasty so to assume it's food poisoning unless she's seen a dr. isn't probably the assumption to make.

So very true. And if salad has been near dirty hands or water, washing it won't solve the risk.

So very true. When a lot of people enter our world here as they do in the high season, and when young visitors come to this lovely place to visit their grands, they bring some germs with them that we haven't been exposed to. Sometimes they make us sick. No one means to spread a cold or a stomach virus but it is done easily. This is the season of hugging.

I guess I could be called hugaphobic. I am not a hugger, don't like to be hugged by anyone I don't know really really well. Unfortunately hugging and also polite handshaking have the potential to bring lots of germs with them. And yes, I wipe the shopping carts. Who really knows where a stomach bug comes come?

I believe we are talking about the same restaurant. Would it be a Japanese restaurant? We had a family member throw up about 2 miles from the establishment.

I have seen that after people leave the bars.🤢

This type of complaint is almost always without any merit. Just because you got acute gastroenteritis it does not remotely prove that the source was the last place you ate. Foodborne illnesses are real but they represent a tiny fraction of cases of vomiting and/or diarrhea. Additionally many foodborne illness have incubation periods of many hours or even days making it very difficult to identify the source. A visit to your doctor or a doc-in-a-box will not clarify the situation without stool testing for pathogens. Why spend the money on that unless you are extremely ill, passing blood, high fevers, recent out of the country exposure, raw milk, contact with raw or undercooked foods, or other recognized epidemiological risk factors.

Even foodborne pathogens are more commonly spread by hand to hand contact, or actually fecal-oral mechanisms. That is why when there is a norovirus outbreak on a ship they don't throw out all the food, they enforce handwashing and sterilize surfaces. Even the situation where a group all eats the same food and all become sick is not proof of a foodborne illness as they all likely touched each other as well. Contact the health department which has epidemiologists to perform proper investigations for guidance if you are convinced that you or a family member has been made ill from a restaurant meal.

Perhaps too much sake? [emoji6]

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While I agree that trying to prove food poisoning would be rather silly, not to mention really disgusting, and even though I had no intention of pursuing proof, I did call the restaurant managers — for the possible good of the herd.

In my earlier post, where I regaled readers with 3 of my food poisoning experiences, I talked about the one at the resort:

It was a business trip.

The entire group was seated for a fancy dinner.

The fish course had just been served.

I remember the lovely presentation had a tiny purple flower on the plate.

Then, like it had been choreographed, one-by-one, people got up and fled from the room.

We all had plane tickets for the next day. Fortunately this was way back when tickets could be easily changed. (We had doctors running for the door with us so the medical excuses were easy to get.)

It is pretty awful for two people in a hotel room to have food poisoning.

But what would have been a whole lot worse would be to have food poisoning hit on a plane so I considered the timing lucky, a silver lining. (Even “”Snakes on a Plane” would be better.)

Common Denominator: A beautifully served, sunny poolside, brunch buffet, earlier that day.

(The resort said that we all had the flu. Nobody bothered to argue about it. We were all just glad to make it back to our rooms in time, in a relatively dignified manner.)

(Oh my goodness, please forgive me, any readers, for writing such unseemly posts about bodily functions.)

I've been told that the food handler is the cause and we all know the effect. I'm sure it's not always the case, but the employees hand washing sign in restrooms should not be ignored.

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Several years ago we were traveling with a group that one by one caught some kind of intestinal thing. Some were sick on the plane going to our destination and others there or on the way back. I caught it but it waited til we were "just" home. I had to drive my Mother In Law (who'd gone on the trip with us) to a town about 90 miles from our house. I had to stop at every exit on the Freeway...it was a nasty virus that only affected the lower g.i. system. I guess "Air-born" is what caused it.....

One other time we were traveling and stopped for lunch. It was a place that served great pies (my favorite dessert) and I had the banana cream. When we got home I was sicker than a dog (as the expression goes). I couldn't truly be sure if it was the pie OR if I had a "bug" and it was just a coincidence. The 1st experience took me several days to get it but the 2nd incident was only a few hours.

Aren't you supposed to notify the health department about suspected food poisoning?

Virus can be pass through tainted food, the one meal was only thing different between us, wasn't food poisoning, nor cheese, or the Japanese restaurant, but in the same playing area. I got sick also after I thought the wife wasn't carrying and got too close. It started with soar thoart, headaches, fever, ended with soar throat. Lasted about week. I alway like to post ending results. Do I think for sure it was 100%? No. But IMO pretty good odds it was.

If it were a virus spread via the food, then there would be many reports of people getting sick that day from eating that particular menu item.

It's much more likely that you contracted the virus a week or two prior at the supermarket, or the gas station, or a rest room in a store or restaurant, and it took a week or two to manifest symptoms. That's USUALLY how virii work. It's an uncommon virus that makes you sick within a day of exposure.