How can a person tell if they actually have food poisoning or if it's actually something all together different?

Food poisoning which is also commonly known as food-borne illness is caused when food becomes contaminated with something that is harmful like bacteria, virus, or toxin. This is usually a result of poor sanitation and improper food handling. The symptoms can emerge between 2 to 24 hours after eating.

The severity depends on the causative agent. Common signs and symptoms are headache, fever, and fatigue that emerge first. This is followed by nausea, vomiting, stomach cramping and diarrhea.

The main sign that the gastrointestinal distress was caused by food poisoning is the presence of other people who ate the same thing and also became sick. For example, after a family meal cooked at home and if everyone becomes ill, then, it is most likely to be caused by food poisoning. It is sometimes trickier to narrow down when people eat at a restaurant and the symptoms take some time to emerge.

The stomach flu on the other hand is not a flu but since flu is cause by a virus called influenza which attack the respiratory system it is then called as such. But it is proper to call it gastroenteritis. This is caused by a virus that creates infection of the intestines which causes irritation and symptoms similar to food poisoning like nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, fatigue and chills.

Gastroenteritis can be cause by eating contaminated food or by being exposed to a virus through poor sanitation. Food is the most common factor for gastroenteritis so one could think of it as a special subset of food poisoning.

Generally speaking, a stomach virus and food poisoning have different symptoms. Food poisoning generally occurs with 12 to 24 hours of eating a particular food. So, if they were to ask all of the patients when the symptoms began, and then backtracked, they could potentially determine whether the food caused the illness, or the other way around.

Along the same lines, the stomach virus will tend to start over a period of time. So if Joe is sick this week, Mary gets sick a week later, and Linda get sick a week later, it it probably the stomach flu. If Joe, Mary, and Linda all get sick within a day or two of each other, then we have something else on our hands.

There are also tests that can be performed to see if it is food poisoning. They can now test for e coli and things like that. Thank you for asking!

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