Eathing ashore... The Ferryboat Fambridge.

[CX54WEK]

I'm surprised by that - it typically does not take much more than 24 hours for food to traverse the digestive tract completely, so I would expect food poisoning to hit pretty quickly or not at all.

It can take some time for the bugs to reek havoc with your innards and become symptomatic!

Food poisoning can act quicker then the 24-48 hours in some cases, 24-48 hours is however a more typical reaction time.

There are a number of nasty stomach bugs doing the rounds this summer. It is more likely the OP picked up one of these given the timescale between eating the meal and becoming ill.

 

[CX54WEK]

In todays newspaper

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-96301/Gastric-flu-outbreak-spreads-Britain.html

 

[Tomahawk]

Food poisoning usually takes 24-48 hours to rear its ugly head, so unlikely to have been something you ate that night!

Begining to feel better.

Take your comment about timeing...

What it felt like was that my tummy stopped digesting food. It was as if something I was eating was undigestable, almost as soon as I started eating in the evening my stomach was not comfortable. But I was hungry and needed to eat.

I have not had any fever or other symptoms associated with bacterial infection. Indeed it couldn't have been that as the chips and fish were piping hot when served. Still puzzled.

 

[Lon nan Gruagach]

2 people, different meals, same symptoms, same time. I think you should be looking at the last time you both ate the same.
As for 24 to 48 hours: Sam and Ella strike within hours of dining with the need for a full purge both ends.

 

[maby]

Begining to feel better.

Take your comment about timeing...

What it felt like was that my tummy stopped digesting food. It was as if something I was eating was undigestable, almost as soon as I started eating in the evening my stomach was not comfortable. But I was hungry and needed to eat.

I have not had any fever or other symptoms associated with bacterial infection. Indeed it couldn't have been that as the chips and fish were piping hot when served. Still puzzled.

It doesn't have to be the food itself - cutlery or crockery could have got contaminated after being washed, a member of staff might not have washed their hands adequately, or used a contaminated towel after washing very well.

 

[CX54WEK]

Begining to feel better.

Take your comment about timeing...

What it felt like was that my tummy stopped digesting food. It was as if something I was eating was undigestable, almost as soon as I started eating in the evening my stomach was not comfortable. But I was hungry and needed to eat.

I have not had any fever or other symptoms associated with bacterial infection. Indeed it couldn't have been that as the chips and fish were piping hot when served. Still puzzled.

I wouldn't rule out a stomach bug you have both picked up from somewhere.

These bugs spread like wildfire, especially around children who perhaps don't wash their hands as often as they should. Not very easy to contain unless you religiously wash and disinfect hands and all surfaces.

 

[DanTribe]

Have you recently launched your boat?
How clean is your water tank?

 

[Tomahawk]

Yes.
Not very which is why we use bottled water...

 

[Bru]

Dangerous stuff, that bottled water. Drinking beer is much safer

 

[Tomahawk]

Akshulie ....



Single malt is better still!!!

 

[Bru]

Akshulie ....

Single malt is better still!!!

Indeed it is

I'm most disappointed that you didn't stick around and share! Came back from working and there you were, gone!

 

[Capt Popeye]

Humm, I know that when there is a 'tummy bug scare' on cruise ships (you know floating restaurants) one of the first actions is to remove the salt /pepper pots from dining tables and replace with 'sachets' , tis I understand, the probability that any 'bugs' could be transmitted from contaminated, externally, pots from 'other peoples' hands. Urg But as the Meal is eaten in the Restaurant, using these 'pots' tis a way of bugs entering our defences, unwittingly.

 

[Tomahawk]

Pleased to report that tummy is now much better. (Probably the single malt helped..)

As I said above, it felt like my tummy was not working rather than having food poisoning.

 

[Gargleblaster]

Just came across this>
"Trichinosis is an insidious disease, because the cycle of gestation in a human intestinal canal can take three to six months, with early symptoms like nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and fever giving way to muscular pain, swelling in the limbs, swelling of the eyelids, and finally delirium and death.'
Trichinosis according to my source is most often associated with eating Polar Bear. Would Polar Bear have been on the menu at the Ferryboat in late winter? Do they come south of Norfolk?