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How Can You Tell The Difference Between Food Poisoning And Stomach Virus?

How can you tell the difference between food poisoning and a stomach virus? Symptoms: woke up with onset of retching, violent vomiting & dry heaving, but also stuffed up sinuses, headachy, tired but restless sleep Side Note: prior day had coffee, cheese slices, potato chips & Chinese food (this eaten aprx 10 hrs. earlier) Diagnosis? Treatment? Thanks.
Tue, 29 Nov 2016
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Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history and understood your concerns.
Waking up with retching, vomiting, dry heaving, stuffed up sinuses, headache, tiredness, restless sleep can all indicate that this may be a virus infection.
Since you have no loose stools, bloating or pain in abdomen, this looks to be due to virus infection.
I would advise you the following:
Take a symptomatic treatment wit a PPI like Omeprazole, Domperidone and Antacid.
Take Paracetamol as pr the body weight and decongestant with oral and nasal applications.
Take steam inhalations.
Take strict bed rest so that you can have proper recovery.
Send the sample of stool, blood and urine to see if there is any evidence of bacterial infection and if present to get started on proper antibiotics under your Doctor's guidance. Always go for the clinical evaluation as your Doctor known better about what is going on around.
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How Can You Tell The Difference Between Food Poisoning And Stomach Virus?

Hi. Thanks for your query. Noted the history and understood your concerns. Waking up with retching, vomiting, dry heaving, stuffed up sinuses, headache, tiredness, restless sleep can all indicate that this may be a virus infection. Since you have no loose stools, bloating or pain in abdomen, this looks to be due to virus infection. I would advise you the following: Take a symptomatic treatment wit a PPI like Omeprazole, Domperidone and Antacid. Take Paracetamol as pr the body weight and decongestant with oral and nasal applications. Take steam inhalations. Take strict bed rest so that you can have proper recovery. Send the sample of stool, blood and urine to see if there is any evidence of bacterial infection and if present to get started on proper antibiotics under your Doctor s guidance. Always go for the clinical evaluation as your Doctor known better about what is going on around.