AHS reminds residents of food safety during the holiday season
Lethbridge, AB – You’re at a party this holiday season; maybe you’re the one hosting- maybe it’s an office party or a gathering at someone else’s home. There are all kinds of meats, seafoods, cheeses, nogs and toddies that you’ve never even heard of, and mayonnaise generously covers just about everything.
For the next few hours you eat and drink your fill and head home after a great evening, tummy full of good food. Or, so you think.
Not too long after – an hour or two, maybe longer…your stomach begins protesting; rumbling. You begin to sweat or get cold suddenly. Nausea hits you like a semi-truck out of control on an ice-covered highway. A short time later it’s a desperate trip to the bathroom (hoping those cookies you ate aren’t tossed before you get there), where a loss of control over any number of bodily functions occurs. Over and over again.
The bathroom becomes your best friend for the rest of the night, morning and maybe even the next several days. It’s exhausting, dehydrating and painful.