Food poisoning-old wives tales

[mako]

I have poisoned myself on a pork pie. Need to work tomorrow so looking for magic instant ( ish) cure remedies...found a suggestion that aniseed was good, do aniseed balls count?

[El Pibe]

lots of water, pooh* and wanting to die usually does it for me.

*the verb, obviously not the noun.

stay away from fruit and have dull carbs (bread and rice) once you can stomach it, no flavour.

No miracle cure I'm afraid, that said people bang on about nettle tea as helping somehow.

[mako]

Thanks. Am doing most of that already, although not really through choice. Will give nettle tea a go if sainsburys have it.

[Mands]

If you can get Kaolin and Morphine from a local chemist that should do the trick. I think its about ?2 for a bottle and works really quickly.

[mako]

Thanks

[Jeremy]

Imodium will stop you crapping for the forseeable future, but I'd treat it as a last resort.

[lameduck]

dr collis browne

if you can still get it from the chemists

like most really good stuff, it works

so they discontinue it,

[mako]

Thanks all. Trying the tea and then drugs tomorrow if no improvement.

[uncleglen]

Andrews Liver Salts or Dioralyte will help replace the salts you lose

[alice]

ginger beer or lemonade fizzy sorts the nausea

[maxxi]

Kaolin & M. and Andrews both good options (also Milk of Magnesia - is that still around?) - it's the clay-like substance in them.

Like rats not dying when they get poisoned just the once; they eat clay, which some poisons will stick to, so they can pooh the poison out (which is why they are often poisoned over a longer period of time thus building up the tolerances until it's to late and/or heavy-a-dose for them to pooh out)... er, not having an argument with your other half are you?

[mako]

made it to work on the tea and ginger beer. thanks all