{"id":423,"date":"2006-10-01T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2006-10-01T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T01:35:35","slug":"food-poisoning-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/food-poisoning-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Poisoning 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had my first experience being the parent of a kid with food poisoning yesterday, thanks to Sonic.\u00a0 Against my better judgement and my usual disregard for fast food of any sort, I found myself in a bind yesterday – we were counting on eating lunch at the birthday party we\u00a0had just attended but\u00a0pizza was served and, somehow, my son hates pizza\u00a0like\u00a0most kids hate brussel sprouts-\u00a0so we\u00a0swung by and let the boy pick anything he wanted.\u00a0 Anything.\u00a0 He picked a corndog.\u00a0 Apparently, and I’m only taking a wild guess here, but the evil cornbread coated weenie was the culprit.\u00a0 By 10pm that night the poor kid was projectile-ing anything and everything he had eaten in the last ten hours – all over the bathroom, kitchen and, of course, not his<\/em> bed but our<\/strong> bed.\u00a0 I felt so bad for him.\u00a0 In between blows, he would look up and say “do ya think the cake made me sick?”.. “do you think it was the corndog??”.. “do you think it was the roller skating???”…\u00a0 He had gone to his very first roller skating party and I think the sweet darling thought that he was having delayed motion sickness – but I had my money on the\u00a0greasy stick injected\u00a0meat composite.\u00a0 He was a real trooper throughout the whole\u00a0thing – I even had to stop him from helping me clean up the floor.\u00a0 It was pretty upsetting for him, I think.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the flu there is significant\u00a0warning to any horrific vomiting episodes that might occur.\u00a0 The sweats, the chills, the fever – all good indicators that things aren’t right.\u00a0\u00a0Food poisoning, though, creeps up on\u00a0you.\u00a0 I tucked him in, kissed him good night and entirely out of nowhere he starts groaning like a collapsing steel bridge and when I suggest he take some time in the rest room we are, within seconds, all covered in\u00a0– well, you get the picture.\u00a0 I can’t even say that I have ever had food poisoning (knock wood, knock wood)… My husband has – actually had to rush to the hospital for dehydration.\u00a0\u00a0Awful.<\/p>\n

So, I just let him take it easy today.\u00a0 I didn’t force food on him\u00a0though, by the end of the day, I was being a little pushier than this morning.\u00a0 I had realized that he didn’t want to eat because he was scared he would throw up again – not because he wasn’t hungry.\u00a0 I’m quite certain, judging by his requests for dessert tonight, that he is feeling much better.\u00a0\u00a0Just thought I’d share.\u00a0\u00a0 Aren’t you\u00a0glad.\u00a0 Nothing like a good food poisoning story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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