Food Poisoning at Crazy Fish!
Steven Kochones
the first (and last) time. Crazy Fish was LA Weekly's "Best" Sushi
restaurant in their Best of LA issue. Anyway, I didn't care much for their
oddball offerings: mostly rolls with fancy names and weird combinations.
Well, I awoke in the middle of the night feeling quite ill. I won't
disgust you with details. Suffice it to say that I threw up three times
and couldn't keep anything down for an entire day (including water). I had
a fever and a constant headache as well as body aches and vertigo. This
lasted two days. By Friday, I was still weak but able to eat soft foods. I
assume this poisoning occurred at Crazy Fish because it was my last meal
before getting sick. This was the worst food experience I've ever had. Has
anyone had a bad experience there? I hope not.
--
Steven Kochones
smkf...@earthlink.net
"Follow your bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore, follow your ignorance."
K.S. Klausner
there is no test that can be done to prove or disprove food poisoning
on one person. (if a group of people who ate the same food all
have the same symptom and the same bacteria can be detected in their...
but you don't want the details)
most food poisoning is NOT caused by salmonella, but
rather by a TOXIN produced by staphlococcus-
and the bacteria cannot be detected in the.... details
staph toxin food poisoning will cause vomiting and diarrhea,
+/- fever, staring 4-24 hours after the ingestion,
will usually last for 24 hours. It almost always causes
severe stomach pain/cramps.
acute viral gastroenteritis (the "stomach flu")
can present very similarly, but will usually last
longer, 2-5 days, and is less likely to cause
abdominal cramps, but more likely to include fevers.
Staph food poisoning is VERY common, and very hard to prove
the source.
Too many details?
kk, md
peneral pediatrics/er
John E. Anderson
>
> Last Tuesday evening, I ate at Crazy Fish on Olympic in Beverly Hills
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> Well, I awoke in the middle of the night feeling quite ill. I won't
> disgust you with details.
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> Suffice it to say that I threw up three times
> and couldn't keep anything down for an entire day (including water). I had
> a fever and a constant headache as well as body aches and vertigo. This
> lasted two days. By Friday, I was still weak but able to eat soft foods.
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Glad you opted to spare us the details, Steve!!
Seriously, though, I've seen a lot of damage done to good restaurants by people who assumed
that they were poisoned, when in reality they had a 24 hour flu, or something like it. I
hope that you saw a doctor and were tested to confirm food poisoning before posting a note
that potentially could cause an otherwise good restaurant to lose a lot of business.
> Steven Kochones
> smkf...@earthlink.net
>
> "Follow your bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore, follow your ignorance."
John A.
Joh...@loop.com
John Kordic
>Steven Kochones wrote:
>>
>> Last Tuesday evening, I ate at Crazy Fish on Olympic in Beverly Hills
>
> Snip..Snip...Snip...
>
>> Well, I awoke in the middle of the night feeling quite ill. I won't
>> disgust you with details.
>
>> and couldn't keep anything down for an entire day (including water). I had
>> a fever and a constant headache as well as body aches and vertigo. This
>> lasted two days. By Friday, I was still weak but able to eat soft foods.
>
> Snip...Snip...Snip...
>
>Glad you opted to spare us the details, Steve!!
>
>Seriously, though, I've seen a lot of damage done to good restaurants by people who assumed
>that they were poisoned, when in reality they had a 24 hour flu, or something like it. I
>hope that you saw a doctor and were tested to confirm food poisoning before posting a note
>that potentially could cause an otherwise good restaurant to lose a lot of business.
There is no such thing as the '24 hour flu'. Or, only in the sense
that it is used to refer to food poisoning. If there is any doubt
about what happened to Steve, it is what caused the food poisoning, as
the onset is not immediate. ie: was it lunch or dinner? who knows. It
seems raw fish would be a likely candidate.
jk
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