Both the stomach flu and food poisoning can leave you feeling miserable. But while the two conditions have similar symptoms, they have different causes and can last for different periods of time.
Maybe you enjoyed a lovely meal only to end up with stomach cramps, nausea, or even vomiting hours later. Food poisoning can leave you feeling helpless and miserable. In most cases, food poisoning ...
Symptoms of food poisoning can range from mild discomfort to severe illness, including diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach cramping, fever, bloody stool, blurred vision, headache and general weakness.
Listed below are some of the most common signs and symptoms of food poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and how they compare with symptoms of a stomach virus ...
"Norovirus and food poisoning are easy to confuse as the symptoms are almost identical, including severe nausea, diarrhoea, stomach cramps and vomiting," says Niamh McMillan, Superdrug's Pharmacy ...