Food poisoning myths...

[Guest Kirsteen]

**WARNING: pseudo-graphic accounts to follow--if squeamish, do not read on. (But hey, I'm figuring the context is pretty safe since you're almost all wishing to be doctors of some sort in the future.)**

 

A call to those of you who may have sat through a lecture on this already...! Here's a few quick questions for you while I'm hanging about here as I haven't yet had the notion to sit here at my computer and sift through a Google search for the answer...

 

First, a brief Hx: I think today was the day of having the bod held hostage by some naughty critter of some sort. Totally fine yesterday: went out for a good and seemingly innocuous dinner last night comprised of tempura tuna roll for a starter followed by steak frites; then at 6am this morn--KAPOW! From the dim birth of today's morning emerges the flesh and blood incarnation of a splendid and colourful Trevi Fountain.

 

I've since spent the day regretfully avoiding my regular libations: Starbucks venti lattes and a glass of orange juice with added calcium. Having heard that dehydration is not the way to go, I tried sipping some of Lake Ontario's chlorinated finest, but let's just surmise that the water didn't like the looks of my rugae at all. So, listening to that age-old adage that flat ginger ale does the trick, I had some bubbly stuff imported and have since established a small factory line on my bedside table consisting of a sequence of slowly flattening, single serve bottles of ginger ale. (I'm told that at least three stores around here were all out of the multi-litre bottles, and most had only one or two of the small bottles left in stock--a pattern perchance?!)

 

After having drunk two bottles of the ginger ale I'm feeling a bit more stable, and now that I'm more focused on things other than avoiding hitting the carpet, I'm wondering, what is the deal with flat ginger ale? Why does it seem to work? Is it simply the sugar content that does something magical, or is there still actually ample concentrations of ginger in commercially-prepared ginger ale to give the bod some sort of a naturopathic boost during times of... this! Also, why must it be flat? Does the ingestion of carbonic acid cause additional spectacular shows of vomitus of some type? If so, what's the deal with ingesting other supposed sicky no-nos of milk products and liquids that contain other types of acid, e.g., fruit acids?

 

Thanks in advance for sharing your wisdom and putting up with the gore. If nothing else, it would be fabbo to turn this day into something more than one involving the above activities plus sitting in bed half-reading articles in last month's Vanity Fair!

 

Cheers,

Kirsteen

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