I have fallen victim to food
poisoning at least a half dozen times in my life. The last time was a
horrendous case I caught in Las Vegas from eating in a casino. The typical case is where I get very sick 2
to 3 hours after a meal. I throw up and have diarrhea. After I am empty I am
sick for several days.
I consider myself somewhat of
an expert on recognizing food poisoning in myself. You eat bad food, and get
very sick two or three hours later.
I recently had these
symptoms. But I did not have food poisoning. It was a gall bladder malfunction.
The gall bladder is a bladder
that holds bile made by the liver. On signal the gall bladder puts bile into
small intestine. (It takes bile to digest steak.) The signal is generated when
a large body of fat is being digested. If the gall bladder gets infected and is
not working right it can be removed and the liver will keep bile available for
the small intestine. Usually there are zero or very small effects caused by the
absence of the gall bladder.
My recent attack by food
poisoning symptoms was really a gall bladder failure. I had a fever. My gall bladder was infected. I
also had a large stone, which was blocking the gall bladder opening.
That is why I had gone to the
emergency room and requested an enema. Thank goodness the hospital ran a cat
scan and found the problem. The surgical removal of my gall bladder solved the
problem.
I was so sure of my
diagnosis. How could I be so sure and so wrong?
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