Possible Food Poisoning At Crystal Palace?

[frndshpcptn]

There have een a couple treads lately about people getting sic/injured on Disney property and the shock people have that no one from Disney has followed up with that particular guest.

To be honest, I'm not sure why anyone would expect a follow up call. Who would make the call? The manager on that night - from the restaurant or the hotel? What if he was off the next day or two? The new manager on for the shift probably wouldn't call either - Disney had hundreds of medical "issues" a week and defintely does not follow up on most of them.

 

[aggie94]

Our group of 7 also arrived on 4/23. 4 of us woke up sick on Thursday, 4/27. We're pretty sure it was food poisoning since we were all sick at the same time. We did not eat at CP, but at O'hana the night before.

Luckily the babies did not get sick, it was just us thirty-somethings.

 

[babby]

My experience has nothing to do with food poisioning and I am sorry your husband got so sick on the trip.

However we did have to place a 911 call from POP when my 19mth old son (at the time) hit his head on the corner of the nightstand causing a gash in his forehead about and inch long and quarter-half inch DEEP. It was gushing and I mean gushing blood and I paniced. I called the front desk and said my son needed immediate medical attention and she put me through to 911. While waiting for the paramedics a lifeguard and manager came to the room. I rode with my son in the ambulance and my husband and 7 yr old daughter followed in the car. He needed 7 stitches. When we got back to the room mousekeeping had come by and picked up all the bloody towels and straightened up. The next day, NOTHING! We went on about our buisness to MGM for the day. The following day, we had a late morning start and low and behold the manager came knocking on the door. She was "just checking" on my son and brought him a towel animal (fish in bowl) and for my daughter she brought a towel angel with braids on her head for "being so brave" when they took Mommy and brother away in the ambulance". Thought that was very sweet. Didn't expect anything to be given- but was hurt they did not call the first day. The manager did say she came by the room the first day and we were not there. Also I was waiting for the bill for the ambulance when we got home and never received one. After posting on these boards someone told me their experience was that whenever an ambulance is called to disney property, Mickey takes care of the bill. I never did get a bill and that was two summers ago. Did get one from the hospital and separate one from the doctor that treated him.

 

[sara74]

DH had a stomach problem from the moment he arrived to oin us a few days into our stay at WDW. He was in the bathroom more than me and I am 6 months PG if that gives you any indication! Of course we don't feel it was any of the foods since it started 12 hours after he arrived and lasted all week. None of the rest of us had any probs, thank goodness. He had been 2 nights at the Doral Golf Club in Miami before he came to WDW - I bet he caught something there! Oddly enough, it cleared up the day we went home, leading DH to tease me that he is allergic to WDW. I told him we need to make a few return trips just to test his hypothesis!

 

[CinRell]

I've always been fine at CP but the ribs at Sci Fi made me sick. It might've been my touchiness to pork, tho ribs never bothered me before. All I know is we had them for early dinner and after fantasmic I coudl barely make it out of the park. I had to keep sitting at benches I felt like I was going to pass out/be sick I was doubled over. The bus back to POFQ couldnt' have come faster and I was in pain all night. Was fine the next day though.

With the vast number of falls, scrapes, stitches, heat stroke and even food poisoning that must take place everyday at WDW I'm sure they can't follow up on everyone. I'm so sorry your vacation was ruined but not sure what else WDW could have done.. there is no proof how he got sick, unfortunately.

i'm so sad for you that your trip was ruined, though. I hope you are able to go back and have a truly magic filled time.

 

[DisOrBust]

The other thing people aren't thinking about are privacy standards are very strick now.

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

Last June when I was on a girls trip at WDW, my friend got sick, i don't remember what we ate but she ended up getting sick and had to go to her aunt's house. We had been there 2 days and she got sick on the second to last day.

 

[bicker]

I'm sure "follow-up" is limited by a number of factors. (1) Guests don't typically think to leave enough contact information with the CMs they work with. (2) Follow-up can sometimes be misconstrued as an admission of responsibility, which causes far more negative ramifications than any lack of follow-up. (3) Given the volume of issues that some guest, somewhere, might expect to have followed-up on, the cost of having that many more CMs to conduct all that follow-up might be prohibitive.

 

[sarah24]

just bumping again.

thanks!

 

[Hoosier]

My DD got sick within hours of eating cheese fries at Sci-Fi. She was the only one in our family that ate the cheese fries, and no one else got sick. Unfortunately, she was really, really sick (vomiting and diarrhea) and lets just say that one room for 4 people is too small when someone is in the bathroom (if you know what I mean). Anyway, much to the disappointment of my other daughter, we checked out 2 days early and went home. There was no way we could enjoy the rest of our trip. I'm not sure that was the best idea, as we had to pull over several times on the way to the airport (for obvious reasons), she got sick in the bushes at the airport and ....well you can imagine the plane ride home although someone was nice enough to give up their seat next to the bathroom. The only thing I asked from WDW was that check out early and not be charged for our last night. That wasn't a problem. That was over two years ago. We laugh about it now, but it was truly miserable. Lets just say we won't be eating at Sci-Fi again.

 

[Tiger926]

Everyone assumes it's food poisoning, but several trips ago, hubby and I became sick as well. We were travelling with our family doc (close family friends), so he took care of us - thank goodness! We assumed food poisoning but he says most times it's a virus - his daughter also became sick several days later, and none of us had eaten at the same restaurants on the first few days. I would beg people though to treat things as if they are a virus as that way you don't make anyone else sick. If you assume it's food poisoning and go to the parks, or go on airplanes (I understand that above poster thought that was the best thing to do, but you could have potentially made the entire plane sick!), you will most definitely make everyone else sick as well.

I have a suppressed immune system, and a young daughter who catches everything like me, so please take care of yourselves by assuming things are viruses so that proper precautions are followed at all times.

Tiger

 

[Littlemotherhaywood]

Though the timing may seem coincedental, it is very easy to misconstrue a virus as food poisoning. Once exposed to a virus, you can get sick within hours up to a few days after exposure and even just be a carrier. Not everyone will get a stomach virus though they are highly contagious. I also agree about the serving utensil handles. They are full of germs and I always try to avoid eating things with my fingers at buffets. Honestly, so many people are not educated enough about how germs spread and a lot of people don't even wash their hands after using the restroom. Now imagine someone carrying a virus like that (maybe has mild diarrhea and wouldn't think about it) uses the restroom and doesn't wash their hands and then contaminates everything they touch. I've been very lucky to never have food poisoning myself, but I do know that it does tend to be more violent than a stomach virus. I'm sorry you dh got sick on vacation. I'm sure that was a real bummer for both of you.

 

[Disneyrsh]

Our group of 7 also arrived on 4/23. 4 of us woke up sick on Thursday, 4/27. We're pretty sure it was food poisoning since we were all sick at the same time. We did not eat at CP, but at O'hana the night before.

Luckily the babies did not get sick, it was just us thirty-somethings.

More than likely there was a gastrointestinal bug going around the parks and you picked it up on your hands before eating.

Did any of you guys wash your hands or use hand sanitizer before you started eating that day? I keep a small hand santizer clipped to my belt loop when I'm in the parks and we either go in and wash before we eat or get a squirt of the sanitizer.

We started doing this after I ended up at Celebration hospital with dehydration after three days of non stop puking.

Just curious, for those who got sick, did you wash your hands immediately before you sat down to eat?

 

[mama4]

We put the sanitizer on the table so everyone can use it as they return to the table with their plates. It's a difficult task to take two young children (and coax the teenager) to the restroom to wash hands and then go get plates (and they'd never agree to go wash hands while their food is sitting on the table) but having the sanitizer makes it a breeze to wash up right before eating.

 

[Sweedee]

OP....My 14yodd got terribly ill after eating a hot dog at Liberty Inn (Epcot). She was the only one that ate it, and the only one in the whole party that got sick. She was with her aunts, uncle and cousin, and they had to come home early cause she was so ill. To this day, she won't even look at a hot dog. It IS possible to get food poisoning at WDW. I am so sorry about your unmagical trip to Disney!