Has anyone gotten sick from the buffets?

[freshmanjs]

As already pointed out, food poisoning is much more serious than just not feeling well. You usually end up in the hospital if you have food poisoning.

That is a very odd and completely incorrect assertion. "Food poisoning" is either caused by a virus, bacteria, or toxic chemical. For the restaurant situation, we can pretty much ignore toxic chemical.

So, we are talking about a bacterial or viral source. These can range from mild to very severe to deadly. Most cases are mild and certainly do not "usually end up" in hospital stays.

That is just completely false.

 

[Albertan mom]

Here is a thread from a while back....
Kind of interesting, though it doesn't tell much about the symptoms of food poisoning.....

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=885946

 

[disneynutz]

I don't understand why so many posters can't believe in Food Illness. Do they actually believe that food is never mishandled? I am not talking just Disney. When you think about the volume of business that Disney does, they do a pretty darn good job. I hate to bring up the reality of the restaurant business but unless you have worked there, I guess denying that a problem can and/or does exist makes us feel better. Unfortunately we took ill last December after eating at the park. We feel that it was food illness. The hospital thought that it was a food illness. Our blood tested positive for a bacteria related to food illness. Our we upset that our vacation was ruined do to a food illness? Sure we are. Do we blame Disney? NO WAY! We have had hundreds of meals at Disney, and we will have thousands more. In fact we were so upset that we bought into two DVC properties. Bacteria and Viruses are in our lives every minute of every day. They are a fact of life. I just don't understand why so many posters can't believe in Food Illness.

 

[freshmanjs]

I don't understand why so many posters can't believe in Food Illness. Do they actually believe that food is never mishandled? I am not talking just Disney. When you think about the volume of business that Disney does, they do a pretty darn good job. I hate to bring up the reality of the restaurant business but unless you have worked there, I guess denying that a problem can and/or does exist makes us feel better. Unfortunately we took ill last December after eating at the park. We feel that it was food illness. The hospital thought that it was a food illness. Our blood tested positive for a bacteria related to food illness. Our we upset that our vacation was ruined do to a food illness? Sure we are. Do we blame Disney? NO WAY! We have had hundreds of meals at Disney, and we will have thousands more. In fact we were so upset that we bought into two DVC properties. Bacteria and Viruses are in our lives every minute of every day. They are a fact of life. I just don't understand why so many posters can't believe in Food Illness.

Who said they didn't believe in food illness?

 

[disneynutz]

Who said they didn't believe in food illness?

I guess it's the perceived "tone" of some of the posts for this tread and others related to food illness. Maybe I'm just misreading. When a poster suspects possible food illness and other posters comment that it was most likely the flu or the touching of spoon handles that caused the illness. I interpret those comments as not believing in a possible food illness.

 

[freshmanjs]

I guess it's the perceived "tone" of some of the posts for this tread and others related to food illness. Maybe I'm just misreading. When a poster suspects possible food illness and other posters comment that it was most likely the flu or the touching of spoon handles that caused the illness. I interpret those comments as not believing in a possible food illness.

What I don't believe in is people's ability to determine where they obtained a food borne illness. People make claims that a certain food made them sick. It is very likely they are wrong about the source. I am not claiming the illness isn't real. Nor am I claiming it is something other than food borne illness.

 

[Newcastle]

Oh, also... I have had food poisoning from a popular chain restaurant before. I knew my chicken fajita tasted kinda funny but I ate it anyways because I didn't want hubby to get upset I was wasting the meal. My food poisoning was so severe I had to have IV fluids. Let me tell you that having food poisoning is the most painful thing I have ever experienced. Worse than labor! It also took about 5 hrs to start after I ate the bad chicken with sour cream. It took me 2 weeks to get most of my energy back. The ER doc said it usually takes about 5-24 hrs for most food poisoning cases to start. I still can't eat anything with chicken and sour cream together to this day and it has been 12 yrs. I can't even have sour cream on the same plate as my chicken. It was very traumatizing.

Ahhhh, the lovely acquired food aversion!! This can be an extremely strong conditioned response that is difficult to shake. I ate some coconut squares about 15 years ago and then became violently ill with some sort of gastro bug (I assume). Since then, I can't be within 2 feet of anything that contains coconut without wanting to wretch!

Just to respond to some of the other posters, I am certainly not saying that there is no such thing as food-borne illnesses but the criteria for diagnosing these among the layperson seems to be the "I was the only person that ate ___ and I was the only person that got sick, therefore it must have been the food". As we all know, gastrointesintal illnesses don't always affect everyone congregating in close proximity to one another. There have been times when only one person in our family has been sick, and others when our whole family has become violentally ill as a result of catching some particularly potent virus. It would be interesting to know how many cases of food poisoning go undiagnosed as I know that I would personally have to be on death's door before dragging my butt to the doctor's to get a proper diagnosis!

 

[La2kw]

That is a very odd and completely incorrect assertion. "Food poisoning" is either caused by a virus, bacteria, or toxic chemical. For the restaurant situation, we can pretty much ignore toxic chemical.

So, we are talking about a bacterial or viral source. These can range from mild to very severe to deadly. Most cases are mild and certainly do not "usually end up" in hospital stays.

That is just completely false.

Why say "completely false" and then agree that many cases can be very severe or deadly? Perhaps a better assertion on my part would be "food poisoning often ends up with hospital stays", but to state "completely false" is, well, completely false.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

In December 2004 I thought I had got sick from something I had at Boma because a few hours after eating there I had vomited 3 times during the night, so to be on the safe side the next morning we had cancelled our 2nd ADR we had there for dinner which was set for a few days later. However later on my parents & I realized I must have got sick from a Hot Dog I had for lunch at the Belz Factory Outlet Mall. So while I never got sick from anything I had at Boma, you can see why I thought it was from something I had there.

 

[freshmanjs]

Why say "completely false" and then agree that many cases can be very severe or deadly? Perhaps a better assertion on my part would be "food poisoning often ends up with hospital stays", but to state "completely false" is, well, completely false.

Again, completely wrong. A correct assertion would be food poisoning "very rarely" results in hospital stays.

Since the entire premise of your post was that the way to tell the difference between food poisoning and some other problem is the severity and requirement of hospitalization, you were completely off base.

Roll eyes yourself.

 

[freshmanjs]

In December 2004 I thought I had got sick from something I had at Boma because a few hours after eating there I had vomited 3 times during the night, so to be on the safe side the next morning we had cancelled our 2nd ADR we had there for dinner which was set for a few days later. However later on my parents & I realized I must have got sick from a Hot Dog I had for lunch at the Belz Factory Outlet Mall. So while I never got sick from anything I had at Boma, you can see why I thought it was from something I had there.

How did you know it was from the hot dog?

 

[eeyoreiscool]

We have seen the chefs go out and check the temperature of the food several times when we go to the buffets. I am not worried about the food spoiling. The little kids that seem to think a buffet is their playground is what I get concerned over.

We have never gotten sick from eating at the buffets either.

 

[SandraVB79]

If it's food poisoning, everyone of the restaurat who ate that particular food should be sick, not just one person.

Also, some foods can just upset your stomach/ intestines. Too spicey, a herb your stomach can't support (is that the right word), not used to the water that has bene used to rinse the salad, ...

I, for example, get sick each time I come close to a No, I don't have an allergy, but even just the smell of the makes me sick. Whenever someone around me eats it, and I can smell it, I feel ill. Whenever I eat/ drink something that has touched a banana, I feel miserable and feel like i have to throw up.

Many times when I eat mussels, I am sick afterwards. that ha snothing to do with food poisoning, but with the fact that i'm very sensitive to mussels.

Also, when people say here that food on buffets have been out for long, it's to say that it isn't steaming hot anymore. The food hasn't been out for days, you know

 

[Mad4Dizne]

Cape May Dinner Buffet. This had up to that point always been our 1st day dinner. I have to say the quality of food on the buffet was just not there. Things were overcooked, grissly, spills around the buffet. We should of gone somewhere else. Live and learn. While we generally don't do buffets at home, from now on we will walk the buffet before ordering to at least make sure things look clean and properly cooked. It can happen anywhere, Disney is no exception.

 

[hsmamato2]

well,I can't remember where I read this,some magazine article by a doc...which said that the '24 hour flu' is ALWAYS food,something you ate that was contaminated- there is no such virus that will make you throw up for just a day...and MOST food poisoning happens in our own kitchens and goes completely undiagnosed- diarrhea or vomiting that appears and disappears is most likely from some food,at some point.How long it takes..well??? But I know that my DH ingested something that his body began telling him was BAD in lessthan an hour....our bodies are pretty wise,in mild cases of food borne illness,it expels as much aspossible as soon as it's detected....
Anyway- it happens all the time,but mostly it's not a huge issue...

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

How did you know it was from the hot dog?

Because my Mom & Dad did not get sick from eating the exact same foods at Boma.

 

[freshmanjs]

Because my Mom & Dad did not get sick from eating the exact same foods at Boma.

Well that certainly does not rule out all other possible sources

 

[Korwynne]

Think people would look at me funny if I just used a clean fork to pick up the stuff I want? Just took my own (clean, unused) fork from dish to dish?

I'd be really upset - if you're using the same fork, you're contaminating foods that might be safe for my children. For example, my daughters are highly allergic to dairy, but potatoes are a staple in their diet. If you stuck a fork that had been in something with milk or dairy into a dish of potato wedges, those potatoes could make my girls very sick. My oldest has her dairy allergy manifest with symptoms similar to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.. and that would really suck the fun out of Disney for her.

We're working with the food allergy people at Disney to figure out what's safe and all that, but I figured it was a perspective you might not have thought about.

 

[freshmanjs]

well,I can't remember where I read this,some magazine article by a doc...which said that the '24 hour flu' is ALWAYS food,something you ate that was contaminated- there is no such virus that will make you throw up for just a day...and MOST food poisoning happens in our own kitchens and goes completely undiagnosed- diarrhea or vomiting that appears and disappears is most likely from some food,at some point.How long it takes..well??? But I know that my DH ingested something that his body began telling him was BAD in lessthan an hour....our bodies are pretty wise,in mild cases of food borne illness,it expels as much aspossible as soon as it's detected....
Anyway- it happens all the time,but mostly it's not a huge issue...

What was it contaminated with, if not a virus, bacteria, or chemical? This makes no sense and is not correct. Please cite a real source.

And, no, you don't know what it was that triggered your DH's problem. Could have been something eaten hours or even 1-2 days before.

I read somewhere that there were WMD's in Iraq --- doesn't make it true.

 

[freshmanjs]

If it's food poisoning, everyone of the restaurat who ate that particular food should be sick, not just one person.

This is quite often not true. If a person with a GI virus touches part of a lasgna, there will be virus particles in that area of the lasagna. Not necessarily throughout the entire tray. And certainly not necessarily in a different tray. It is very difficult to pinpoint the source of these things, and it certainly can't be done through a non-scientific poll of who ate what.