Symptoms of Food poisoning

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The most common symptoms are sickness (vomiting), abdominal pain and diarrhoea due to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract (stomach and intestine). However some types of food poisoning may cause fever, blood in the stools (bowel motions), muscle weakness or, in very rare cases, paralysis.

Incubation periods vary; some types of food poisoning produce symptoms and illness within a few hours, most take 12-48 hours to develop and come on suddenly.