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Q: How often do you get really bad food poisoning here?
Not talking "laduzi", but the kind where you are completely out of commission for several days and have to take a bunch of medicin/IV drips to not die.
I've now had it 4 times in the few years I've been here. Just got over my most recent one that I got from going to a seafood restaurant over the holiday. What a pain in the ass...literally.
11 years 19 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Only twice...both times my fault. I insisted on having the steak rare. Good thing both times and both apartments had the sink right next to the toilet 'cause both times it came out of both ends simultaneously!
Once or twice a year has been the norm for me. I've mastered the art of managing "coming out both ends" syndrome, while only using the toilet...
3 times, in the first year I was here, second year no such problems. One of those was with 40C fever and 40C degrees outside. I blame some Macau street food for that one.
Touch wood i have never had bad food poisoning in China. Not a full time resident but spend a fair amount of time there and eat almost anywhere. One rule only eat where there are a number of locals eating. One 24 vomiting session only. Maybe I'm the lucky one and hope it stays that way
I'm afraid I don't get it! I read the answers but still don't figure out why would there be "poisonous food. Of course this way I already answer that it never happened to me. The op should give some clues about how to recognize such bad food so it can be avoided.
cooter:
Food poisoning refers to eating food that is tainted, or not prepared properly (think undercooked meat). Doesn't usually or necessarily mean someone intentionally added poison to the food.
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@cooter. Thanks for your comment. I've also hear a lot about the tainted food and I try to pay attention to is since. As I mostly don't eat at the restaurants and never even think to try out eating from those who sell their cooked food on the streets, I guess I am a little more protected.
My main meals are vegetables and fruits. I'm no vegetarian at all. But given the circumstances of a high level of distrust in the way everything is prepared and sold in the supermarkets i tend to mostly eat vegetables. Of course, you never know and honestly it is outrageous that in this country, China, it is almost seen as norm and accepted as normal that the food become a threat for your health and God knows if not for your life too. I have been warned before coming to this country that I must to be very careful with what and how I eat. People are dirty and careless of how their dirtiness may endanger other's lives. As long as it sells, no matter how bad quality and dangerous it is, it's OK.
I was in China for 10 months and never had food poisoning. Maybe I was just lucky.
I had it once in the past few years that I've been visiting here, unless you count the pesticide poisoning, but that was intentional. Last year, I got so sick, I was knocked out for basically 5 weeks. Common cold, bronchitis, food poisoning, with green gunk draining from almost every orifice, etc.
I was told that during that time, I'm "unable to take care of myself," and that my wife (who was my girlfriend at the time) "should just leave" me. Instead, she raged her friends and family who said that, and took good care of me instead. I didn't eat for almost 2 weeks, but I had no appetite at all.
Scandinavian:
Surely you were at fault for your ailment. Had you behaved more harmoniously that would never have happened.
Twice - and I think from dodgy beer. The usual stuff where you're unable to move and anything you eat or drink instantly comes back up in violent projectile vomiting. Horrible.
1-2 times a year. I never had foodpoisoning before coming to China.
I used to get it fairly often. Milk was the culprit every time. I stopped drinking milk from supermarkets, switched to goat milk that I order and no longer almost die from spoiled milk.
What I used to stop it and it works VERY well is this: http://n-ergetics.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=232
You have to take it right away after you eat and notice something is wrong and it stops it very well.
I swear I almost died 2 years ago from undercooked steamed chicken in Shanghai that had bloody bones...I won't make that mistake again.
Since then nothing and I eat out almost everyday and when my gf cooks she washes everything with tap water much to my chagrin.
But I get the "laduzi" all the time...at least the relatively mild form of it.
