Question: which is worse, diorrhea or food poisoning

Emma Trantham answered on 2 Jul 2012:

Hmmmm well food poisoning can actually mean that you get diarrhoea.

Food poisoning is basically any illness you get after eating contaminated food: so most commonly its vomiting or diarrhoea or both.

I would rather have diarrhoea only than diarrhoea plus vomiting I think! How about you?

Sometimes there can be long term side effects to the food poisoning. For example, the bacteria I work with will give you 4-5 days of vomiting and diarrhoea (not nice!) but if you are really unlucky it can also give you a type of nerve paralysis. This is why it’s best to avoid poisoning yourself as much as possible!