Had Food Poisoning. Is There Any Chance Of Having GI?
 
                                    
                                    
                                                
                                                Fri, 14 Dec 2012
                                                
                                            
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                                            Thank you for the query.
In some cases such acute digestive tract infection does not recover completely and turns into severe intestines infection (assuming that your symptoms were really caused by food poisoning). Such sever infection may more or less disturb digestive tract and in some people can cause IBS. After 2 weeks it should be no sign in your digestive tract of regular food poisoning. So the time of recovery is quite long.
If it is about jaundice, usually it is invisible outside the body and can be noticed only with blood work. The urine gets darker with jaundice and it can be more visible than skin color.
Your recent weight lost is probably caused by dehydration, total stool clearance and lack of solid foods for some time. And adding all up we can get 15 lbs or so.
I suggest you to try Rifaximine 400 mg three times a day during 7 days treatment. This is an antibiotic which helps with such severe infections and can give total recovery. If this treatment wont give any relief, you should have some diagnostics. Stool tests, full blood work, liver tests and bilirubin blood level should be checked at first.
Hope it will help. Feel free to ask further questions.
Regards.
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