I think i've had a dodgy ruby murray!

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Firstly, this isn't a medical thread.

I had a lovely curry for tea today and now i've just been tasting it for a second time along with a full blackcurrant cheesecake. :(

I knew i should have oven cooked it instead of being a lazy impatient prat and microwaving it. Obviously, i was incapable of cooking the thing thoroughly.

I've just been projectile vomitting in the toilet and daren't go back to bed in case i suddenly vomit all over the bed sheets.

Typical, because i have to be up and out early in the morning. :rolleyes: I think i might just put in an all nighter on these forums. Either that or download Football Manager 2007 Demo. :)
 
Sorry dons - if this is too medical for the forums.

Make sure take some fluids, otherwise you will feel really rough tmrw - even if you dont eat anything, have some water; even better water with a little sugar + the tinniest pinch of salt.

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I take it putting a small bit of sugar and salt in water helps you replace lost minerals when your sick?

Not going to do it, not asking for medical advice just curious why sugar and salt.
 
I'm not feeling too bad now. Around 10pm my arms were aching like hell and i felt like i'd just ran a marathon.

It was definitely the curry. I've not touched a drop of booze today so i can't blame that.

That's the minus side of microwave cooking. With them all having diiferent wattages, you just don't know for sure whether your food is cooked thoroughly or not.

I should've gone to the takeaway. At least i could have sued them! :)
 
fozzybear said:
That's the minus side of microwave cooking. With them all having diiferent wattages, you just don't know for sure whether your food is cooked thoroughly or not.
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piping hot = cooked, mate. its pretty simple but its easy to get it wrong i guess. was it actually a microwave curry? not that it makes much difference now, but it's almost always the rice that causes problems, not the curry itself :o
 
Cybermyk said:
Lemonade helps apparently. It has all the stuff you need to rehydrate and pick up some energy.
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Old wives tale that is, Water is far better then any Lemonade when your sick
 
james.miller said:
piping hot = cooked, mate. its pretty simple but its easy to get it wrong i guess. was it actually a microwave curry? not that it makes much difference now, but it's almost always the rice that causes problems, not the curry itself :o
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It was hot. I even gave it 1 minute over the recommended time.

I could have either oven cooked it or microwaved it. To save 15 minutes, i microwaved it. :rolleyes: There's also another one in the freezer. I think i'll throw it away to be on the safe side.

The chicken in it was probably to blame. Why do you say the rice is usually the problem?
 
bacteria in the rice. i blieve there was a large thread on rice before actually, but aparently its far easier to kill bacteria in chicken and other meats, curries ect. by cooking them than it is with rice. I dont know the specifics but i'm reliably told its really the rice that cause the problems, not the curry itself:)

as i understand (somebody will coreect me im sure) if it's microwavable then the chicken is already pre-cooked, meaning you could eat it cold if you wished (though not frozen, obviously:p). the rice however needs to be piping hot. im sure its 'Bacillus cereus' food poisoning you get from rice, which is caused by chilling the rice but not cooking it thoroughly before consumption.



//either that or it's a dodgy batch of chicken :o
 
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james.miller said:
bacteria in the rice. i blieve there was a large thread on rice before actually, but aparently its far easier to kill bacteria in chicken and other meats, curries ect. by cooking them than it is with rice. I dont know the specifics but i'm reliable told its really the rice that cause the problems, not the curry itself:)
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You learn something new every day. :)
 
I think I'm the only person to have never got ill from eating a curry :p.

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buy one of these - £20, certainly worth it to check you've cooked things properly. Plus you can stick the probe in your oven, and make it beep when the meats up to temperature :)
 
Cybermyk said:
Lemonade helps apparently. It has all the stuff you need to rehydrate and pick up some energy.
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So does coke/pepsi (not diet). In fact some doctors abroad will suggest it over standard electrolyte replacements,

It should be flat though
 
Are you sure it wasn't the full blackcurrant cheescake on top of a curry? It just sounds like you felt ill from stuffing your fat face too much. :p

Hope you feel better soon.
 
Sorry pal, but you wouldn't be able to incubate the bacteria that quickly for it to be the curry. We take 24-48 hours to grow bacteria in the lab. Food poisoning from viral or bacterial means usually takes between 18-24 hours to manifest itself after ingestion.

Their is a possiblity you could suffer gastric abnormalities from ingesting toxins but that's normally fish related.

What is more likely is you are suffering with one of the many gastric colds we've seen a sudden rise in over the last two weeks (in fact we're inundated with stool specimens, it's a veritable sewage works here :eek: )
 
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..... (in fact we're inundated with stool specimens, it's a veritable sewage works here :eek: )
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Eewww!

/puts down chocolate fudge brownie I was just about to tuck into with me tea. :(
 
TheMightyTen said:
Sorry pal, but you wouldn't be able to incubate the bacteria that quickly for it to be the curry. We take 24-48 hours to grow bacteria in the lab. Food poisoning from viral or bacterial means usually takes between 18-24 hours to manifest itself after ingestion.
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There was a gap of around 6 hours between me eating the food and me honking it up.

Maybe it was the chicken kievs i had the previous day then or possibly it was the cheeseake that wasn't entirely defrosted. I don't know! :p

I feel ok today although i only had around 4 hours sleep. :(
 
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