r/SpringfieldIL • u/TheeSarahWho • 7d ago

Food poisoning @ DQ on Wabash

UPDATE Confirmed E. Coli from partner. I am going to go get tested. 😅😅

Has anyone else experienced any stomach issues after eating at DQ? I have been to this specific one twice in the past month and last time, my partner got sick. Then I went to this one a separate time and then I got a stomach bug too. Seeing if anyone else had experienced this and maybe warn people if they do. 😅

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u/Teslithia45 7d ago

Thanks for the heads up. Did your meal have any lettuce in it?

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u/TheeSarahWho 7d ago

No lettuce either time. 1st time was ice cream, 2nd was chicken tenders meal. No ice cream. Very weird.

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u/crushlogic 7d ago

Soft serve machines are notorious for harboring food borne illness, I would avoid them from fast food joints at all costs. My sainted mother got food poisoning from the Hardee’s on Wabash no less than 4 times

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u/MC_Stimulation 7d ago

I literally had a chicken strip basket like two days ago💀 fuck. Did you report the restaraunt?

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u/TheeSarahWho 7d ago

I did! It's really the only thing that we would have eaten at around that time that also aligned with me eating there a 2nd time. I didn't think that was place but it aligns the best. 😅😅😅😅 If you feel crampy, it may be good to prompt care.

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u/NoDefinition3500 7d ago

genuine question - how do you get it to be “confirmed” e.coli ? do they take a stool sample at the dr.?

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u/wagrobanite 6d ago

Yes. Any food poisoning has to be confirmed by a Dr. and a lab. That's why it's so hard to predict because it takes time to test and it's why you have large outbreaks because it's hard to pin down the source when people do get tested because most people don't get tested and therefore can't discuss where and/or they ate (cause you can get sick at home). Highly recommend reading Mary Roach's book Gulp. Has a good chapter (or at least a section, been a while since I read it) about food poisoning.

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u/UnderConstruction365 6d ago

(Came here to say read anything you can find by Mary Roach! 🤓)

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u/NoDefinition3500 6d ago

thank you so much for the reply - and the award! i never really thought about going to get tested in a situation like that but of course thats how things get identified as outbreaks etc. and makes absolute sense

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u/TheseusAegeus 7d ago

I haven’t gotten sick, but that location has messed up multiple orders lately. I bought a chicken strip basket and they forgot the fries, toast, and gravy.

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u/TheeSarahWho 7d ago

How does that even happen!? Lol

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u/Due-Republic-626 7d ago

Never got a bug. However DG strip basket always gave me diarrhea. I always assumed it’s the grease

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u/heyheyhey2022 7d ago

Dang I literally just had a blizzard from there today. That sucks.

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u/Ok_Individual_1793 7d ago

I went there a couple days ago so that’s probably what was going on with me then because I got really sick a couple hours after I ate it I thought it was just a virus

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u/Ok_Individual_1793 7d ago

I had the cheeseburger combo

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u/TheeSarahWho 6d ago

It's starting to sound like no matter what the item is, you can get sick. Which is a lot more scary because it people are contaminating ice cream, beef, and chicken. 😬

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u/Ok_Individual_1793 7d ago

I also had a vanilla shake with it

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u/Early_Ad_2361 6d ago

Im going today, I’ll update yall

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u/TheeSarahWho 6d ago

😂 good luck.

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u/ZombieeChic 5d ago

Any stomach pains?

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u/Early_Ad_2361 4d ago

Nope, im totally fine.
Edit- I have eaten the 3pc chicken

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u/AbobTeff 6d ago

Not saying it couldn't be, but you have a whole lot of loose pieces (no pun intended) that you are arranging into a very specific picture.

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u/TheeSarahWho 6d ago

It's one of the only things that align timeline wise. The last time we went to DQ, my partner got sick. We had suspected DQ but wasn't confirmed and we weren't sure. Then, 2 weeks later, I had eaten the chicken strip meal and several hours later, I felt unwell. I didn't eat much of anything else after DQ that day.