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My tounge seems to be swolen or there is an infection with a white discharge, also both my wife and I had flu like symtoms after eating at a resturant.

 

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June 6 6:49 AM (21 minutes and 25 seconds later)
         
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white on the tongue with swelling could be thrush - a yeast infection. Your doctor should be able to tell just by looking. If you have recently taken antibiotics, this is even more likely. Your doctor will want to do blood work. Flu-like symptoms would not come from eating something bad, but rather you may have been exposed to someone ill at the resturant. Food exposures generally cause gi symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea and cramps. If you
were generally achy and fatiqued or any respiratory symptoms then it was not the food. If by flu-like you mean diarrhea, then it is possible that an ingredient you are not used to set you off or the way it was prepared. Food poisoning makes you very ill. Fever, vomiting, diarrhea accompany this.

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June 6 6:55 AM (5 minutes and 33 seconds later)
         
Reply to S. Sarisky DO.'s Post: How could I get a yeast infection from somone at the resturant? My wife doesent have thrush but we both headache and runny nose and I also had thrush.
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June 6 7:05 AM (9 minutes and 46 seconds later)
         
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The tongue would be unrelated to the resturant. You don't catch thrush. It is an overgrowth of the yeast that normally inhabits the mouth.
The headaches and runny nose are probably also unrelated to the resturant. You may have both been brewing illness from an exposure prior to the resturant and it is all a coincidence. Your oral symptoms may be part of your 'cold' syndrome. Your wife may not be susceptible to developing thrush. I would suggest you go to the doctor and be checked for thrush and take it from there.

DrStephanie
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board certified family physician 12 yrs
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