Food poisoning

About four hours into a flight from Lima to Dallas I started getting
queasy. Four hours later (two hours after I landed ) I had severe
diarrhea. How does one go about reporting it to an airline or seeing if
other passengers reported the same thing. (It`s possible I picked up
the problem from something I ate at the airport.)

wrote in message
...
About four hours into a flight from Lima to Dallas I started getting
queasy. Four hours later (two hours after I landed ) I had severe
diarrhea. How does one go about reporting it to an airline or seeing if
other passengers reported the same thing. (It`s possible I picked up
the problem from something I ate at the airport.)


Having flown in and out of Jorge Chavez airport in Lima, the odds are
strongly in favor of that hypothesis.

wrote in message
...
About four hours into a flight from Lima to Dallas I started getting
queasy. Four hours later (two hours after I landed ) I had severe
diarrhea. How does one go about reporting it to an airline or seeing if
other passengers reported the same thing. (It`s possible I picked up
the problem from something I ate at the airport.)

Uh, did you eat the lima beans? ;O)

wrote:
About four hours into a flight from Lima to Dallas I started getting
queasy. Four hours later (two hours after I landed ) I had severe
diarrhea. How does one go about reporting it to an airline or seeing if
other passengers reported the same thing. (It`s possible I picked up
the problem from something I ate at the airport.)


It probably occured BEFORE the flight.

The question still remains, is there any way to report food poisoning to
an airline?
I`ve heard about medical issues on cruise ships but people are on them
for days. People are on airlines for hours and then go in different
directions. Food poisoning
takes hours to develop. For all I know half the passengers got sick
after they got off the plane.

wrote:
The question still remains, is there any way to report food poisoning to
an airline?


Well, yes there is. You might try picking up the phone and
calling your airline for a start.

wrote:
The question still remains, is there any way to report food poisoning to
an airline?
I`ve heard about medical issues on cruise ships but people are on them
for days. People are on airlines for hours and then go in different
directions. Food poisoning
takes hours to develop. For all I know half the passengers got sick
after they got off the plane.


You were poisoned before boarding the plane

In any case, if you want to report it to the airline, call the res
number and ask for customer service.

mrtravel wrote:
wrote:
About four hours into a flight from Lima to Dallas I started getting
queasy. Four hours later (two hours after I landed ) I had severe
diarrhea. How does one go about reporting it to an airline or seeing if
other passengers reported the same thing. (It`s possible I picked up
the problem from something I ate at the airport.)


It probably occured BEFORE the flight.

For Staphylococcal organisms (the most common source of food borne
illness) is about 3 hours between ingestion and symptoms. Symptoms
seen are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. B. Cereus can manifest with
symptoms within an hour.

If it was SA, then it could well have occured on-board. If B. Cereus
it most likely was from on-board foods.

If it was contracted at the airport, it might be salmonella (a 6-12
hour incubation period).

Other sources can take days to manifest in symptoms (E. coli,
campylobacter, salmonella, shigella, etc).

On the other hand, it may well have been an intestinal virus totally
unrelated to food.

js

If memory serves, I had a hamburger at one airport cafe and hard ice
cream at another. It would have been several hours sense I would have
eaten anything else. The real question I have is what would the most
likely water (ice) contaminates be and how long would they take to
produce symptoms?

wrote:
If memory serves, I had a hamburger at one airport cafe and hard ice
cream at another. It would have been several hours sense I would have
eaten anything else. The real question I have is what would the most
likely water (ice) contaminates be and how long would they take to
produce symptoms?


Unless you went to a doctor, you don't know what caused your illness
Forget about it