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I was on flight 525 PHl-SFO last Saturday. When landing I became very ill, I ate the greek salad offered on the flight. I am pretty sure there was something wrong with the food, as a became very ill shortly after eating it. Should I let usair know? I don't know what they can do. What are your thoughts?

Middleseat

I was on flight 525 PHl-SFO last Saturday. When landing I became very ill, I ate the greek salad offered on the flight. I am pretty sure there was something wrong with the food, as a became very ill shortly after eating it. Should I let usair know? I don't know what they can do. What are your thoughts?

Middleseat

Generally you wouldn't feel the effects of food poisoning for several hours. Were there others on the flight that looked ill?

Generally you wouldn't feel the effects of food poisoning for several hours. Were there others on the flight that looked ill?

Well the flight landed then I got a connection to Reno, which is where I became ill. I ate about 1.5 hours into the flight, had an hour layover and actually so maybe 5-6 hours after eating I became ill.

Generally you wouldn't feel the effects of food poisoning for several hours. Were there others on the flight that looked ill?

Right - people have a tendency if they feel ill to blame the last thing they ate, which is usually a misattribution. Generally, the types of food poisoning that have reactions within an hour or two are extremely rare and involve anaphylactic type of responses (i.e. fugu, the famed blowfish). Since you said you felt "ill", not "I had respiratory paralysis", I'm guessing you're talking about tummy trouble, which is different and requires a bacterial incubation period. Most of the common forms of food poisoning have incubation periods of many hours or a day or two.

At least as likely, if not more likely, would be that you contracted viral gastroenteritis, aka the stomach flu. Easily transmitted, relatively common, and has effects that people often mis-self-diagnose as food poisoning.

Edited to add: just saw your response, sorry; 5 - 6 hours would still be a very short incubation period. For example, salmonella is typically 12 - 30 hours post-exposure and e coli 8 - 18 hours. So my money would still be on viral gastroenteritis. Hope you're feeling better!