if you eat something dodgy, why do you get cramping and diarrhoea soon after consuming it, even though that food couldn’t have been digested yet? And why do the symptoms stop before your body has expelled the bad food?

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if you eat something dodgy, why do you get cramping and diarrhoea soon after consuming it, even though that food couldn’t have been digested yet? And why do the symptoms stop before your body has expelled the bad food?

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Answer 1

Food poisoning is caused by bacteria on the food getting into your body and causing a ruckus. It’s not directly caused by toxins on the food, generally.

Different bacteria cause different symptoms. Salmonella won’t affect you for at least 6 hours. E. coli doesn’t hit until a few days after you’ve eaten the bad food.

But staph infections get into you almost right away, and reproduce to the point that they’re cycling toxins into your system very quickly, hence the quick symptoms.