What just hit me last night? I had a flu shot…

[Grumpyguy]

I felt queasy when I went to bed. About 2 AM vomiting and diarrhea for about five hours straight.
Like I said I had the flu shot so what did I have last night?

I'm a little bit concerned because the medicine I'm on is suppressing my immune system and not sure how a virus will impact my CIDP.

So was it flu? My whole team at work has either had it or a variant. Short, intense, better in a couple days.

[mattkime]

food poisoning?

the '24 hour flu' is usually food poisoning.

[GGD]

Just because you had a flu shot, it doesn't mean that you can't get the flu. It's not 100% effective, it just improves your chances of avoiding it.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

vaccine reduces the risk of flu illness by about 50% to 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are like the vaccine viruses.

[Paul F.]

More than likely it was "foodborne illness" from something you ate up to 3 days ago.

[Robert M]

Grumpy,

That doesn't sound like it had anything to do with the flu shot. After a flu shot, typically, you may feel some very mild flu-like symptoms from a flu shot but it isn't going to give you the flu and, from my experience it definitely doesn't cause vomiting and diarrhea. What you dealt with sounds more like what Matt said or an unrelated stomach bug of some kind. What did you eat?

FWIW, you can still get the flu even if you've had a flu shot. It happens. The shot protects against some but not all flavors of it. Again, though, I don't think the flu applies in this case.

Robert

[S. Pupp]

Influenza is a respiratory infection, not a gastrointestinal one. What you experienced was not influenza. The term "stomach flu" is an expression. It is not really a manifestation of influenza.

[Grumpyguy]

We had turkey for dinner. I didn't think it was very good. tasted gamy, a bit tough. Wonder if that was what caused it?

[Dennis S]

Grumpyguy wrote:
We had turkey for dinner. I didn't think it was very good. tasted gamy, a bit tough. Wonder if that was what caused it?

That's what I vote for.

[Paul F.]

Grumpyguy wrote:
We had turkey for dinner. I didn't think it was very good. tasted gamy, a bit tough. Wonder if that was what caused it?

It was as likely as the side salad sitting beside the turkey. Sure, might have been the turkey, but it could just as easily have been something totally innocuous.

[Acer]

"Viral gasteroenteritis isn't exactly the same thing as food poisoning, which refers to any illness caused by food contaminants, including dangerous toxin-producing bacteria like salmonella. But norovirus is the number-one cause of foodborne illness in the U.S. This is a family of viruses most often to blame for adult gastroenteritis, although others include adenovirus and astrovirus. (Rotavirus is the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis in babies and young children)." http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,...35,00.html

As for how norovirus spreads...well, you don't really want to know.