A 36-year-old member asked:

is it possible to have food poisoning but no throwing up?

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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered

Pathology 49 years experience

Yes: There are many different types of food poisoning and a person may not have vomiting yet still have food poisoning, e.g., botulism.

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A 40-year-old member asked:

Can i save myself from getting food poisoning by throwing up?

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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered

Pathology 49 years experience

Not likely: You cannot get rid of bacterial toxins or bacteria causing food poisoning by inducing vomiting.

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A 25-year-old member asked:

What can you do if you ate sufferinf from food poisoning and you keep throwing up and running off the bile?

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A member asked about a 21-year-old female:

My gf ate bad chinese food and has been throwing up for the past 30-45 minutes.Probably food poisoning. She is now resting w/ some pain. What can I do?

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A 19-year-old female asked:

My niece who's 3 has been throwing up almost for 12 hours. No fever, no food poisoning. She can't even get any medicine she throws up. What can it be?

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A 27-year-old female asked:

I've been throwing up periodically every hour (at first) and then every other hour since last night 7PM. Slight chills, aches. Food poisoning? Flu?

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A 22-year-old female asked:

My 28month (2 1/2 y/o) and I both have food poisoning. .. and stuck in bed any ideas how to make the symptoms(throwing up and chills) more manageable?

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