Violent reaction...from chicken??

[GrammyLou]

Hi all,

So I had been doing pretty well for the past couple weeks. Dizziness and brain fog has been much better. But something happened yesterday and it was not good! About 2 hours after my meal, I felt my stomach blowing up, then was in the bathroom with liquid D. About 15 min later, I vomited up everything that I had eaten. I used to have issues with nausea, but this is the first time I've ever violently vomited like that. Then I had a lousy night, sleeping with heating pad on my gut for the pain and cramping. Uugh. Haven't had to do that for months. I don't think it's a stomach virus, but more likely due to my food. The weird thing is that the only thing different that I ate was chicken! I would not expect to have that kind of reaction from chicken. But I guess, who knows? Back in October when I first started trying to get things under control by changing my diet, I was eating mostly chicken, potatoes, and canned green beans. But I couldn't get rid of the nausea and dizziness. So then I decided to make drastic changes, and started eating mostly ground turkey, ground pork, and fish for my proteins, and cut out the canned veggies and all starches. That's when I finally started improving, and I hadn't had chicken since then. Last night was the first time with chicken in probably a couple of months. Somehow chicken just hasn't seemed appealing to me...maybe my brain was trying to tell me something?! Does it seem reasonable to react that strongly to chicken? Now I'm afraid to ever eat it again!! And it's funny because my Enterolab results said chicken showed no reaction. Not sure what to think. Today I've had some yogurt and ginger tea with no issues, but am just feeling exhausted and dehydrated. Ho hum. It always seems to be two steps forward and one step back. :(

[brandy]

Does it seem reasonable to react that strongly to chicken?

Yes. Listen to your body. Could be chicken issues. Gluten contamination issues. Soy contamination issues. Or Food poisoning.

[tex]

It could have been a histamine reaction. That chicken could have been stored at refrigerator temperatures for too long. That converts it into a high-histamine food, which causes many of us to react. It also could have had salmonella. Stick with turkey — turkey doesn't cause any reactions.

Tex

[DJ]

I am unable to eat chicken. I eat turkey nearly every day, whole, ground, sausage, in soups, casserole, tacos, or on a plate.

I never experienced violent vomiting from chicken or the immediate,extreme reaction you described. You might have gotten a touch of food poisoning from something you ate that day. Figuring out what we need to stay away from is so difficult. I tried reintroducing chicken. No luck for me.

Best wishes,
DJ

[Erica P-G]

Working in foodservice.....my first suspect was food poisoning....your body was getting rid of it promptly.

Give your immune system time to back down again and give it one more try later in the year...with fresh, well cooked chicken and eaten immediately after cooking...only then will you be able to rule it out of your diet.

Hugs
Erica

[Gabes-Apg]

i agree with Erica, it could be combo of food poisioning along with reacting to chicken.

the other aspect with things like chicken is you could be reacting to what the chooks have been fed - ie high gluten feed, and/or high soy feed, and/or high corn feed.

[GrammyLou]

Thank you, Brandy, Tex, DJ, Erica, and Gabes. I am feeling almost back to "normal" (my normal, anyway) today. Tex, you mentioned histamines...could histamine issues actually cause vomiting? Along with the chicken (which I had just taken from the freezer and cooked that night) I also finished off some shredded brussels sprouts which I had eaten the previous two nights with no problems. So it was day 3 for the brussels sprouts.

But to make things even more confusing, my daughter drove down to visit for the weekend and she just told me she threw up this afternoon! I had gotten sick Friday late afternoon and she was here Friday night and Saturday night. She got sick today (Monday). So possibly I actually had a stomach bug that I gave to her? Ho hum. So many variables, it really makes it difficult to know what to eat!

[tex]

No, I don't see how histamine issues could cause vomiting. It's not impossible, but very, very unlikely. I think you're on the right track to suspect a virus. We have to remember that we're still vulnerable to the same bugs as everyone else.

Tex