Bad cheese?

lilawolf
lilawolf Posts: 1,690 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Friday night I made creamy tuna pasta using packaged ingredients, fresh milk, and month old cheese. I used both Gouda and some sort of white cheese "singles". Both smelled fine and had no mold. Dinner tasted good. That night I started violently throwing up and having very liquid #2. It is now 2pm Sunday (I'm in china) and I'm finally starting to think about eating something more than a few cookies. Should I toss the leftover pasta and cheese? Could the cheese really have been bad? I'm honestly terrified of eating anything since I don't know what set this off.

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  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    I wouldn't blame the cheese because cheese generally improves with age. It could be you picked up a stomach bug.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,207 Member
    Hard to say because that kind of reaction can be from foods eaten prior, but I know I would not be eating it, just in case.
  • lilawolf
    lilawolf Posts: 1,690 Member
    The Gouda was kind of damp looking now that I think about it. I don't know if that matters. I do think it probably was a bug, but how can I tell the difference between a bug and bad food?
  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    Usually, you can't. :sick:

    I do hope you get to feeling better soon.
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    The Gouda was kind of damp looking now that I think about it. I don't know if that matters. I do think it probably was a bug, but how can I tell the difference between a bug and bad food?

    You eat the pasta.

    If you get violently sick again: bad food.

    If not: stomach bug.
  • Pixi_Rex
    Pixi_Rex Posts: 1,676 Member
    The Gouda was kind of damp looking now that I think about it. I don't know if that matters. I do think it probably was a bug, but how can I tell the difference between a bug and bad food?

    You eat the pasta.

    If you get violently sick again: bad food.

    If not: stomach bug.

    This is how I do it. Haven't died yet - felt like it a couple times.
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    Just toss it just to be safe. I hope you feel better soon!
  • NachoEverydayChick
    NachoEverydayChick Posts: 23 Member
    Usually cheese that's bad is obvious, but I would absolutely get rid of the leftovers. You never know, plus I know if it was me, I would psych myself in to being sick again even if that wasn't the original cause. Get rid of it.
  • Emtabo01
    Emtabo01 Posts: 672
    Food poisoning typically starts about 6 hours after eating the contaminated food, so I remember being told in pharmacy school anyway.
  • Emtabo01
    Emtabo01 Posts: 672
    Oh yeah, and once I barf a food up, I can't eat it again for years, so I'd def toss the leftovers if it was me.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    The Gouda was kind of damp looking now that I think about it. I don't know if that matters. I do think it probably was a bug, but how can I tell the difference between a bug and bad food?

    Bad food is a bug, the only way you can know whether you caught the microbe from a person or the food is to have the food tested, even then you might have contaminated it when cooking. Chuck the leftovers, take a course of freeze dried probiotic capsules to repopulate your gut flora, eat oily fish for the anti inflammatory gut and immune calming omega-3s. And bleach the hell out of your storage container, cheese grater and kitchen surfaces.

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