Slow Lounge Food Poisoning ( CPT)... Anyone Else?
May 20, 2018, 3:11 pm
#16
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May 20, 2018, 4:40 pm
#17
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I’m sorry the OP has had this experience - I’ve only had severe food poisoning once, and it was not an experience I would like to repeat
Indeed, and this is where I got into trouble: food poisoning and subsequent dehydration has caused me my one and only missed flight so far. Due to fly Ryanair and (unbeknownst to me) had eaten a dodgy prawn the night before. In the morning, I didn’t feel great but made it to Stansted. Ended up having to lie down in a quiet first aid room.
Felt better a bit while later, and still in time for the flight - great! Got as far as the gate before my hands and face started cramping up - it was quite frightening as I had no idea what was wrong. At first the gate agents asked if I was scared of flying, but through (unwillingly) clenched teeth I asked them to call a paramedic.
Luckily, I didn’t require IV fluids, and returned home to recover - but it was a salutary wake up call that food poisoning can really dehydrate you: if you can’t even keep water down, and you’re losing fluids, you don’t even realise until you’re in trouble.
Ryanair were great and rebooked me at no charge two days later. This was in 2006, so I think I lucked out!
Felt better a bit while later, and still in time for the flight - great! Got as far as the gate before my hands and face started cramping up - it was quite frightening as I had no idea what was wrong. At first the gate agents asked if I was scared of flying, but through (unwillingly) clenched teeth I asked them to call a paramedic.
Luckily, I didn’t require IV fluids, and returned home to recover - but it was a salutary wake up call that food poisoning can really dehydrate you: if you can’t even keep water down, and you’re losing fluids, you don’t even realise until you’re in trouble.
Ryanair were great and rebooked me at no charge two days later. This was in 2006, so I think I lucked out!
May 21, 2018, 12:29 am
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why do you need to state your qualifications to be non alarmist yet to make accusations against people you need have no qualifications at all? Sounds arse about face to me. I would suggest that you need more qualification to state something that could potentially (but unlikely) be libellous.
May 21, 2018, 1:20 am
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Can we just make a template reply for any food poisoning threads? because they all follow exactly the same flow.
Poster "I just flew xxx from xx to xx, x hours later I became extremely ill. It was definitely the airlines/lounge food because it was the only thing I had eaten in x hours"
Reply "Welcome to the forum. So sorry to hear about your experience. The timing is a bit quick for food poisoning. Have you let the airline know so they can see if any others are afflicted. I'm not medical but *insert medical fact here*. sounds like norovirus to me. no compensation."
Poster "I just flew xxx from xx to xx, x hours later I became extremely ill. It was definitely the airlines/lounge food because it was the only thing I had eaten in x hours"
Reply "Welcome to the forum. So sorry to hear about your experience. The timing is a bit quick for food poisoning. Have you let the airline know so they can see if any others are afflicted. I'm not medical but *insert medical fact here*. sounds like norovirus to me. no compensation."
May 21, 2018, 4:00 am
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My wife was very ill in a few hours after eating in a busy restaurant in the Terminal 21 shopping mall in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit-area, while my meal (different choice) was great.
May 21, 2018, 6:57 am
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why do you need to state your qualifications to be non alarmist yet to make accusations against people you need have no qualifications at all? Sounds arse about face to me. I would suggest that you need more qualification to state something that could potentially (but unlikely) be libellous.
May 21, 2018, 10:28 am
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The equally likely alternative to the dubious cheese is the absence of running water in every one of the airport toilets (switched off due to the drought) and consequential hygiene issues arising from that. My OH experienced milder symptoms than the OP described a day later without eating anything in the SLOW Lounge. Anecdotal reports from someone working in the hotel industry in JNB is it has been an increasingly common ailment amongst people returning from the Cape.
(I have a GCSE in Biology, since it seems necessary to declare qualifications to comment here ;-)
May 21, 2018, 10:51 am
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May 21, 2018, 11:09 am
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