Recovery from stomach flu - why so different?

[Anonymous]

DH and I both got the bug Tuesday. I vomited once, he didn't. We both had diarrhea that night, and felt better Wed. On the BRAT diet for a couple of days. He was back eating normally Thursday (had a big juicy burrito that night!) and has been fine since. I had my first normal meal Friday night, which sent me in a tailspin - even worse diarrhea since then, nausea comes and goes (no vomiting). Has it been anyone else's experience to have such different recoveries for the same bug?

[Anonymous]

Everybody has 1) different stomach flora and 2) different sensitivity and 3) different immune systems.

Eat some yogurt or take a pro-biotic and see if that helps.

[Anonymous]

Stomach flu is a misnomer. You likely had food poisoning. You could be more sensitive or gotten a higher concentration, whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody has 1) different stomach flora and 2) different sensitivity and 3) different immune systems.

Eat some yogurt or take a pro-biotic and see if that helps.

Thanks, I have taken probiotics (DH hasn't), but it didn't help me. I'm afraid to try any dairy now.
His stomach is usually more sensitive than mine, hence my dismay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stomach flu is a misnomer. You likely had food poisoning. You could be more sensitive or gotten a higher concentration, whatever.

I thought symptoms of food poisoning start right after eating, within hours. Ours started more than 24 hours after eating out.

We spent the weekend in a cabin with another couple and all ate the same food. On the way back, DH and I stopped for dinner at a restaurant. The next day we ate different things until we got sick that night, so it was definitely from the restaurant (whether food or surfaces, IDK), because the other couple never got sick.

[Anonymous]

Not necessarily. For example, I once had food poisoning from eating mussels. Others are from the same bowl. But every mussel wasn't necessarily contaminated.

And it can take anywhere from an hour to more than a day fir symptoms to show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not necessarily. For example, I once had food poisoning from eating mussels. Others are from the same bowl. But every mussel wasn't necessarily contaminated.

And it can take anywhere from an hour to more than a day fir symptoms to show.

OK, thanks.
I'm so ready for this to go away! I don't know what else to do.

[Anonymous]

Most food poisoning is from what you ate 12-24 hours prior. Almost never is it the most recent thing you ate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stomach flu is a misnomer. You likely had food poisoning. You could be more sensitive or gotten a higher concentration, whatever.

+1. There is no such thing as a "stomach flu."

[Anonymous]

My Dr once told me to try clear liquids for 24 hours..it sort of resets your system. Worked for me..