I think I had 24hr food poising.

[crash2000]

we ate at a recomended restuarant had the salmon plate , it was yummy, and desert was the banana cake, later that evening I was very very sick to the point of vomiting, felt fine the next day, I would avoid the salmon if I were you...

wish I could remember the name of the restaurant??? its all dark wood, reminds me of the keg, the kids menu offers chicken soup, and the adult apetizers are all seafood offerings.

looked it up hollywood brown derby was the place, booked it at the 180 day mark... food tasted great...

 

[maj42169]

I would venture to say that you might have just had the nasty stomach virus that has been going around rather than food poisoning. You would not have felt better so quickly if it were poisoning from tainted food. There is a strong stomach virus going around the east right now. It comes on fast and then is over in less than 24 hours........

 

[KatMark]

I would venture to say that you might have just had the nasty stomach virus that has been going around rather than food poisoning. You would not have felt better so quickly if it were poisoning from tainted food. There is a strong stomach virus going around the east right now. It comes on fast and then is over in less than 24 hours........

It may have not been food poisoning...it could be that the food just didn't agree with you. My DH got sick after eating at WCC--it was the ribs or chicken. It wasn't food poisoning, but the food definitely did not agree with him.

 

[ElenitaB]

Both my cousin and I are very sensitive to whatever they wash the lettuce with at WDW, and it tends to give us some severe intestinal issues. Might it have been something like that?

 

[TDC Nala]

24 hours... probably a virus. Which means you may or may not have gotten it from the restaurant.

 

[Luvamouse]

we ate at a recomended restuarant had the salmon plate , it was yummy, and desert was the banana cake, later that evening I was very very sick to the point of vomiting, felt fine the next day, I would avoid the salmon if I were you...

wish I could remember the name of the restaurant??? its all dark wood, reminds me of the keg, the kids menu offers chicken soup, and the adult apetizers are all seafood offerings.

looked it up hollywood brown derby was the place, booked it at the 180 day mark... food tasted great...

p.m. -ing you about this...

 

[RandiB]

Sorry to hear it. Hope your trip wasn't ruined.

Food poisoning is so weird. You can get it anywhere from hours to three days after eating something.

Normally you associate it with the last thing you ate.

I've had it once, on my honeymoon. The last thing I ate had sun dried tomatoes in it, and now I can't even smell them without feeling ill.

Morning sickness ruined yams for me, and I used to LOVE yams.

Hope salmon isn't ruined for you. My mom had bad salmon once and didn't even try it again for twenty years. She recently started eating it again and loves it.

 

[Luvamouse]

OK, I looked for a thread like this on Wednesday when my cousin was up sick all night after eating at the Brown Derby. I finally got in touch with her on her flight home and the only item her husband did not share with her--he was not sick-- was the salmon.

I am NOT suggesting it was definitely food poisoning, however, it seems interesting that both crash2000 and my cousin were ill after eating the same meal within a 1.5 hour time frame. This suggests to me something from the restaurant or meal may be at work. To be honest, we were hoping to find someone else it had happened to as her parents are traveling with them (and their 3 young boys) and my uncle has Stage 4 cancer and could not have handled a virus. They take immense precautions to prevent this.

In the FWIW department, my cousin will be informing WDW of her reaction when she is settled in at home. It could be caused by a number of different things, but everyone who goes to WDW doesn't post on these boards and so it may correlate with other info or inquiries WDW have received about the same meal. The fact that two soft cheeses are used in the polenta and sauce give more options other than the salmon as to a possible culprit.

While I was very hesitant to use the name of the restaurant the other night when posting, I am using it now in the hopes that it may help someone else searching for the same info. I do not mean to imply in any way that a problem should be expected there nor that it isn't possible to have a bad reaction anywhere we eat from undercooked food, cross-contamination, food allergies or simply food disagreeing with our systems.

 

[Uncleromulus]

Could have been any # of things. Thinking it was food poisoning and SAYING it was food poisoning doesen't make it so.
It has to be diagnosed as such and reported to the local health dept. for an investigation.

 

[Luvamouse]

Could have been any # of things. Thinking it was food poisoning and SAYING it was food poisoning doesen't make it so.
It has to be diagnosed as such and reported to the local health dept. for an investigation.

I agree, which is why I made sure to be cautious and say that there are many different explanations for this, but I still think it is smart to call WDW and report the symptoms alone and the meal consumed. If they say nothing can be noted without a hospital report, no problem. Not like everyone would go to the ER for something that most people would think might just be a bug. But it can't hurt to let them know in case something wasn't handled properly.

 

[disnut8]

Foodborne illnesses can occur within an hour of ingesting the food. If the symptoms appear within 1-6 hours after eating, the illness is caused by a bacterial toxin or chemical and not a live bacteria. In most cases, the human body can recover in a short period of time.

Food poisoning is really not a correct term to use as the food isn't poisoned.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

we ate at a recomended restuarant had the salmon plate , it was yummy, and desert was the banana cake, later that evening I was very very sick to the point of vomiting, felt fine the next day, I would avoid the salmon if I were you...

wish I could remember the name of the restaurant??? its all dark wood, reminds me of the keg, the kids menu offers chicken soup, and the adult apetizers are all seafood offerings.

looked it up hollywood brown derby was the place, booked it at the 180 day mark... food tasted great...

Why is it at WDW it's always food poisoning? When your home it's a quick stomach virus? $$$

 

[Luvamouse]

OK, to those people who insist that it is a "virus", which this MAY WELL BE...

here from the CDC:


More than 250 known diseases can be transmitted through food. The CDC estimates unknown or undiscovered agents cause 81% of all food-borne illnesses and related hospitalizations. Many cases of food poisoning are not reported because people suffer mild symptoms and recover quickly. Also, doctors do not test for a cause in every suspected case because it does not change the treatment or the outcome.

Of course it can be a myriad of things that caused either of the two persons mentioned here to become ill. However, if I get sick within a couple of hours of eating, and find it goes away when my body is devoid of the past meal (to put it politely), I will assume it was something I ate, not a virus. Even if I am at home. Even if I cooked the meal myself. It is not a case of

Why is it at WDW it's always food poisoning? When your home it's a quick stomach virus? $$$

The $$$ implies people looking for money. This is not what this thread is about. It isn't even about getting a meal comped. Not even the people who were sick know the answer and judging from the tons of info about undiagnosed food borne illnesses that you can find online, it's not uncommon to have it and deal with it without going to the ER. Some people need to quit being so critical of someone who was genuinely ill for whatever reason. You don't know what it was either.

To the poster who mentioned that it has to be diagnosed as such and reported to the local health dept. for an investigation, this is of course correct, but informing WDW of the incident may in fact correlate with other info they have been given. And maybe not. Perhaps the thread title wasn't the best, but that doesn't change the contents of it.

 

[Disneyhappy]

I agree, which is why I made sure to be cautious and say that there are many different explanations for this, but I still think it is smart to call WDW and report the symptoms alone and the meal consumed. If they say nothing can be noted without a hospital report, no problem. Not like everyone would go to the ER for something that most people would think might just be a bug. But it can't hurt to let them know in case something wasn't handled properly.

As claims examiner who once handled a restaurant program for my company, I appreciated the reports to WDW so it is a matter of record. Besides the health issue reasons symptoms should be reported, it also helps in the investigation of the more serious claims. Food poisoning claims are often difficult to investigate because the first defense is usually why isn't there a report for anyone else who became ill? Food poisoning is often misdiagnosed at the ER/hospital or it is diagnosed as a virus when in fact it is food poisoning. I once had a claim for over 35 people becoming ill at a wedding from food poisoning. The sheer number of the people who became ill who all had the same entree was enough for me to accept that it was food poisoning. The onset was about 18 hours. Yet, when I reviewed the medical records for all of the involved guests, somewhere between 10 and 15 of the cases were diagnosed as a stomach virus at the guests' local hospitals or doctors. As someone else posted, there are several different types of food poisoning from different food sources with different times of onset. I would err on the side of caution and report anytime someone thinks they may have been exposed for the obviously health reasons. Because of our litigious society, the claims are hanlded as required by law but also with a bit of sketicism.

 

[tgropp]

When I was visiting WDW in 2007, I had eaten a pulled pork sandwich and about 20 minutes afer I felt really sick. I could not eat for 3 days and my stomach hurt so bad. I just figured that it was something that I had picked up on the cruise ship because I ate the pork about 7 hours after departing the Magic in Port Canaveral.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

When I was visiting WDW in 2007, I had eaten a pulled pork sandwich and about 20 minutes afer I felt really sick. I could not eat for 3 days and my stomach hurt so bad. I just figured that it was something that I had picked up on the cruise ship because I ate the pork about 7 hours after departing the Magic in Port Canaveral.

Stomach viruses/flus are common on ships due to so many people in such close quarters.

The last cruise we went on there were so many people sick with the stomach flu they had sick bags lining the hallways & the doctor added extra hours.....
I was one of them & it was horrible.

 

[crash2000]

update...

my complaints aren't about $$$

and I have filed a report with disney, CDC, and florida heath department about this...

also did some research on this, and the symptoms can show as earlier as 3 hours after consuming the meal...

 

[PrincessMonkey]

I believe that your complaints are not about money.

I had a terrible case of food poisoning from a salmon dinner on a business trip awhile ago, and I was so sick that my skin grew deathly pale and I could barely walk... this is not good when you have to make it to a trash can or a sink. I was extremely weak. (My client had half of a similar type of dish, and she was sick too, but less so) It took a day and a half to recover to the point where I could travel again. I should have gone to an ER, but I was out-of-town, alone, and ill-informed of the severity of food poisoning until the next day.

I was so horrified by the experience that I couldn't eat salmon again for months. The restaurant that catered the food did apologize, but no further compensation exchanged hands.

Good luck to you for getting down to the bottom of this. It could be a virus, but it could also be something more and the restaurant needs to know.

 

[Uncleromulus]

disnut8 makes a good point. Food poisoning seens to imply that someone at a particular restaurant deliberately "poisoned" your food.

What bothers me most about these food "poisoning" threads is that it may unfairly target a restaurant (or a particular food dish) that had absolutely nothing to do with the actual illness. Many people when on vacation tend to eat out more often than they do at home, try things with sauces, etc they they've never had. That in itself can cause stomach problems that have absolutely nothing to do with how the food was prepared.

 

[crash2000]

an update:

Dear Mr. Steve,

I am sorry to hear that you and others were ill. If you continue to experience symptoms, I encourage you to consult with your primary care physician for diagnosis and treatment. I am forwarding your complaint of illness to Dean Bodager, the Regional Environmental Epidemiologist for the Orlando area. Either he or someone from the Orange County Health Department will contact you for some follow up information. To that end, it would be very helpful if you would e-mail us a phone number where you can be contacted. Meanwhile, I am including a link to a CDC Frequently Asked Questions Fact Sheet on foodborne illness for your information: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/files/foodborne_illness_FAQ.pdf. As you may already be aware, gastrointestinal symptoms can be caused by other exposures besides food.

I do hope that you are feeling better.

Sincerely
Roberta M. Hammond, Ph.D., R.S.
Food and Waterborne Disease Coordinator
Bureau of Environmental Public Health Medicine
Florida Department of Health
4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #A08
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1712