food poisoning at Disney?

[figmentmom]

While I admit that there are differant degrees of food poisoning, my point was I think that Disney food gets blamed for a lot of things that aren't in fact Disney food related. Some kid eats a double bacon cheese burger and a large order of fries and washes it down with a large Coke at Pecos Bills,and then proceeds to ride the teacups and gets violently ill. Whoa! It's just GOTTA be food poisoning that made my kid sick! Never mind that it's 95º F outside and the teacups are spinning! If you and your children scarf down one of those Kitchen Sinks they sell at Disney's Beach Club Resort, then run through the International Gateway on a hot summers day, I can pretty much guarantee they are going to toss their cookies and cream before they reach France. :lol: Don't blame it on the food.

My wife and I both ate some shrimp at an EPCOT Restuarant and got violently ill for 3 days. I won't mention the restuarant because it was probably an isolated incident and I wouldn't want to discourage anyone else from eating there. I realize there are indeed instances where the food at Disney World may cause someones illness, but it's too easy to blame Disney for every little tummy ache. My personal story is the all-you-can-eat-breakfast buffets. For some reason I always get food poisoning after I've just finished my 14th sausage link.

Well said.

 

[sweetpee_1993]

While I admit that there are differant degrees of food poisoning, my point was I think that Disney food gets blamed for a lot of things that aren't in fact Disney food related. Some kid eats a double bacon cheese burger and a large order of fries and washes it down with a large Coke at Pecos Bills,and then proceeds to ride the teacups and gets violently ill. Whoa! It's just GOTTA be food poisoning that made my kid sick! Never mind that it's 95º F outside and the teacups are spinning! If you and your children scarf down one of those Kitchen Sinks they sell at Disney's Beach Club Resort, then run through the International Gateway on a hot summers day, I can pretty much guarantee they are going to toss their cookies and cream before they reach France. :lol: Don't blame it on the food.

No doubt. It's like in December when my 10 year old ate his steak medium at LeCellier and got sick later that night. Hubby immediately thought it was the steak that made him sick. I didn't buy it. It was time to come home anyway and it ended up he had bronchitis. I don't automatically think everything is food poisoning. I think heat and diet has a lot to do with what the body can tolerate for sure.

Like others have said, I think overall Disney does a pretty dang good job of serving up a whole lotta food while observing food safety and standards. Nothing is ever 100% and any food poisoning incidents are not exactly the norm, isolated, and rare. Kuddos to the Disney cooks...and my heart goes out to those unlucky enough to get sick on vacation. I did the flu for a trip one year. I know first hand how horrible it is.

 

[Kerby626]

K

No I don't remember your mom getting sick up in Tn.

Scooter
It wasn't the Florida heat, we were at Disneyland. Yes I acknowledge it could have been the heat but after consulting my friendly neighborhood Navy Corpsman we determined it was some form of food poisoning or whatever.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to experience a problem on either coast.

 

[Scooter]

K

No I don't remember your mom getting sick up in Tn.

Scooter
It wasn't the Florida heat, we were at Disneyland. Yes I acknowledge it could have been the heat but after consulting my friendly neighborhood Navy Corpsman we determined it was some form of food poisoning or whatever.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to experience a problem on either coast.

And we all know that Navy Corpsmen are trained experts when it comes to foodborn illnesses.

 

[Laura]

When my dad and I went to Disney in February he had a snack at the Boardwalk Bakery and he said he took a bite of it and there was something weird inside the thing he ordered that tasted like it shouldn't have been there. Next thing he knew he was throwing up and spent the next 24 hours by the toilet, which stunk since we were only down there for 4 days.

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

I had food poisoning from a badly cooked salad, Im not sure which one it was as I had three that afternoon. I was very ill, it was coming out both ends at the same time and I only had the room towels to clean the mess with.

To be honest it was so bad I had to think twice about going to the bar that evening.

 

[mpoppins217]

Just wanted to add that a common problem with pinning down what food gave you food poisoning is the incubation period. Most people associate the food poisoning/getting sick with what they either last ate or recently ate that is often associated with making people sick if poorly cooked (e.g. shrimp, chicken, etc). In actuality, it could be caused by something you ate several days before. And while wikipedia is not the greatest of sources all of the time, most of this link seems pretty good if anyone wants to take a gander. :wave:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_poisoning

 

[LudwigVonDrake]

I had a bad experience from an All-American burger at the Sci-Fi :lookaroun

 

[EmOhYouEssE]

And we all know that Navy Corpsmen are trained experts when it comes to foodborn illnesses.

Thank you. I thought maybe I was missing something or I was the only one that didn't understand how the two were related in that post, lol.

And I agree with your other posts as well. Many people claim food poisoning, when in reality it is more likely that their digestive tract is reacting to different oils/cooking methods/seasonings, ect than they are used to at home. True food poisoning will not go away overnight.

I know these things, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express with an Army recruiter one time :animwink::lol:

 

[bobjl527]

Back in 2000, my wife and I both ate at Pecos Bill's in the MK. We both ate the same thing. The only difference was that I loaded up on the dill pickle slices at the condiment bar.:slurp:

That night, back at the hotel, I started having the worst stomach cramps ever. Then a shooting pain. I seriously thought my appendix had ruptured. WARNING....Here is the gross part. To put it as mildly as possible....it was coming out of me like water. I almost didn't make it to the bathroom in time. I literally sat on the toilet for 2 hours. It wouldn't stop. I loaded up on PeptoBismol and the next day took some Immodium. It was awful. It had to be food poisoning.

I didn't report it to Disney, but looking back I probably should have. I always wondered if it happened to anyone else.:shrug: Needless to say, I now avoid the condiment bar at Pecos Bill's like the plague.

 

[saraandtony]

too sick to enjoy

we went to florida mk pecos bills waltdisney on 3/15/11 family of 8, 7 of the family members had ate the hamburgers got sick within 72hours,with extrem vioming ,cramps,diarea,and weakness that lasted between 1 to7days only my 14yearold who ate the chicken wrap didn't get sick. this was the sickest and the worst time ever with seven people vioming and diarea all at once. we paided over one thousand dallors for our disneytickets we couldn't even uses them. my 20 month old son was sick for a week the doctors belives it was food poisoning futher testing is being done. so sick I thought we were dieing:hurl:

 

[EvilQueen-T]

hob april 2010. was sick within 20 minutes of eating. hadn't had anything else before that all day and was fine before the meal. my sister also had a similar experience after eating at casey's the end of last summer. i'm a family practice/urgent care nurse practitioner and can say yes it was food poisoning and yes it's one of those things that is bound to happen once in a while. i've had a million meals at wdw and hopefully that was my one turn. lucky for me it was our last meal before heading home and luckily for the people on the disney bus that the driver stopped when he did...i jumped off (not at our resort), tossed my car keys to my sister and told her to come find me, i'd be the one barfing hopefully in a lobby bathroom if i made it that far. i then barfed all the way home. may i never have to be sick at a rest stop again...turned into the worst 3 days of my year.

 

[Korfar]

While I admit that there are differant degrees of food poisoning, my point was I think that Disney food gets blamed for a lot of things that aren't in fact Disney food related. Some kid eats a double bacon cheese burger and a large order of fries and washes it down with a large Coke at Pecos Bills,and then proceeds to ride the teacups and gets violently ill. Whoa! It's just GOTTA be food poisoning that made my kid sick! Never mind that it's 95º F outside and the teacups are spinning! If you and your children scarf down one of those Kitchen Sinks they sell at Disney's Beach Club Resort, then run through the International Gateway on a hot summers day, I can pretty much guarantee they are going to toss their cookies and cream before they reach France. :lol: Don't blame it on the food.

My wife and I both ate some shrimp at an EPCOT Restuarant and got violently ill for 3 days. I won't mention the restuarant because it was probably an isolated incident and I wouldn't want to discourage anyone else from eating there. I realize there are indeed instances where the food at Disney World may cause someones illness, but it's too easy to blame Disney for every little tummy ache. My personal story is the all-you-can-eat-breakfast buffets. For some reason I always get food poisoning after I've just finished my 14th sausage link.

14th sausage link? Sounds like you have the same self control I do when it comes to those. :ROFLOL:

 

[docnabox]

Not really. I've had food poisoning a few times. I've gone from :hurl: for a few hours to being so bad I had to be hospitalized. It really depends on what is wrong with the food (and the type of food), how much you ate and your general health at the time.
I have also taken care of people who were so bad they were on IV's for a few days because they became so dehydrated from being sick.

HI Tigsmom, great to see you again. We have chatted in the past!

I agree with you that food poisoning duration is variable on multiple factors. I did want to chime in though that it does not necessarily have to come on within a few hours. Depending on the type of food poisoning you have, it could take longer. For instance, if you ingest say, canned food, and it was canned improperly, you might get a toxin mediated food posioning that could come on within hours or even less. However, in other cases where it is the bacteria that are directly causing the illness and not a poison they have produced, it could take much longer.

Sadly, for me, I have had food poisoning three times at WDW. Once from fettucine alfredo at Alfredo's and once from turkey and dressing at Boatwright's. The latter was probably the sickest I have ever been. This was before I went to med school and I did not know any better, but now, I realize that I should have been hospitalized as I am certain I had a bad case of rhabdomyolysis as a result of the dehydration. :hurl:

The funny part was that we were midway between the International Gateway and the Beach Club when the "urge" hit. My brother loves to tell the story of how the color drained from my face and he saw beads of sweat form on my forehead as I stopped dead in my tracks and tried to think which was better - go back to EPCOT or make a dash for the resort. He says he has never seen me run so fast!!

The last was on my last trip to WDW and I grabbed a burger at McDonald's in Village before leaving to go to the airport. It kicked in as I was boarding the plane and I spent the entire flight on the tiny floor of the bathroom. I was so sick, the flight attendant did not even make me get back to my seat to land. Funny, thing, like you said, after those few hours, I felt better and was hungry again on the drive home. :lol:

 

[reptar77]

For a couple of years in a row I would always get violently sick at WDW a couple days into our trip. It would be so bad that I would literally spend 1 day on the bathroom floor or in bed. After that I was perfectly fine. We would always eat at the same places (table service only). I thought it was food poisoning but it seem to much of a coincidence to happen year after year. Then it came to me, it wasn't the food it was the type of food I was eating. My normal diet at home had become very healthful. Salads, very little red meat, almost no sugar and very little pasta. It made sense that my body was going into shock from eating the oh so tasty but not great for you food at WDW. The next trip I slowly started integrating more sugar and beef into my diet prior to my trip and wouldn't you know I didn't get sick at all.

 

[Scooter]

My wife and I both got sick at WDW in August one year and we thought it was food poisoning. Turns out it was the maids fault at our resort. After we were out in the parks all day in 94 degree heat, we would come back to a 58 degree room and the differance was too much for our systems. After we would leave to go to the parks, the maid would turn our thermostat down. Because we live in the mid-west and not being used to the Florida heat and humidity, the change was too much for us. We finally told the maid to leave the thermostat set at 68. She thought we were crazy but we were fine after that.

 

[materbuddy]

A long time ago 3 people in our party ate the smoked turkey sandwich at the GFC. That night we were all sick. 2 of us felt better the next day. One person was still sick. I was the only one well enough to ride ToT the next day.

 

[Silver Figment]

I've never gotten sick but i did have an allergic reaction after eating a free sample of candy from the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. We got the ingredient list and i then found out that i must be allergic to Brazil Nuts because i'd had everything in it before and always been fine.

 

[erstwo]

Welllll - I was just about CERTAIN that this happened to me at, of all places, Yachtsman .

But I've had a lot of time to think about all the OTHER places at WDW that I could have grabbed a stomach bug . I really don't think it was the food at a very GOOD Restaurant - I think it was FYOSR (four year old snot residue) - present in abundance on the rails, seats, door handles, and roofs at WDW .

I think you are right. I think getting sick in Disney has very little to do with food poisoning and much more to do with the fact that people from all over the world come to WDW and therefore every germ in the world lives at WDW.

You might not get the Asian flu, but there's the American flu(s), the European variety flu, and the dreaded, line cutting Brazilian flu to be dealt with.

On our December trip, I encountered throw up every day. One day all over the floor of the Tomorrowland bathroom. One day watching some teenager throw up (or attempt to throw up) with his head sideways in a trash can on Main Street. On our last night at the Hoop Dee Do someone had thrown up all over the steps on the side of the building where you have to exit to go to the bathroom during the show :hurl: that was the worst! :hurl: My own son threw up at Animal Kingdom about 1/2 way through our trip.

The fact is, people shell out a TON of money to go to WDW and if "Junior" has a stomach bug, most people don't keep their kids - or themselves!- home, or even in the hotel room, they take them out into the parks because they want to get their money's worth. We use the 24 hour rule - you have to be throw up and/or fever free for 24 hours before you can go back into the parks, but not everyone is so considerate.

 

[NiarrNDisney]

On my last trip (Jan, 2011) I had to extend my trip an extra day and get a different flight due to food poisoning.
What ended up happening was on the last night of my trip I visited Epcot, we went to Tangirine Cafe and I ate the Lentil salad which normally is a fav. well needless to say I was sick the rest of the night, the next day, and mildly the day I finally left. Changing flights and getting the room for an extra day isnt exactly my idea of fun nor is it my wallets. Usually I keep to a simple diet the night before a flight that way I won't have to worry about situations like this, lesson learned I am going to be more careful the next time. .