Originally Posted by
rmac
Not a medic, so I stand to be corrected, but short of heart attacks, strokes etc, are there many other illnesses where you can strap yourself in to the aircraft full of the joys of spring (with no signs of illness) and then be unconcious 45 mins later ?
Don't underestimate food poisioning...
Over a period of about 20 mins I developed a severe pounding headache, large blind spots in my vision and vomiting. In effect I was totally incapacitated and quite scared (particularly by the partial blindness). It took about a day before I was fully back to normal.
A few days later it happened again and I went to the doctor. He diagnosed a bug of some sort....but my wife had been fine and we had been eating the same food etc.
Later I heard that a brand of fizzy drink had been withdrawn after a load of school children had been taken ill. Penny dropped... I (but not my wife) had been drinking from a family size bottle in our fridge.