AND NO. WASHING THE LETTUCE WON’T LOWER RISKS OR REMOVE ANY E. COLI PRESENT. DON’T EAT BAGGED ROMAINE.
Regrettably, this is very true.
And yes, its pretty much all of it.
Seriously, as someone who has missed weeks of school due to a nasty strain of E. Coli, don’t fucking risk it. The pain I had from E. Coli was the most excruciating pain I have ever had in the 17 years of my life. I was hospitalized. They had to give me morphine for the pain. I remeber leaving the hospital and being in so much pain that I wanted to be unconscious. I was bleeding internally, had to go to the bathroom every 10 minutes, couldn’t sleep because of the pain, was shitting blood, and honestly, I was ready to hold my breath to knock myself out.
E. Coli is NOT like salmonella. It is NOT just a stomach bug. It’s NOT just like any other foodborne Illness. It’s hours of excruciating gastrointestinal pain, hospitalization, internal bleeding, weeks of school to make up from, shitting blood all day, every 10 minutes, vomiting, and not knowing if I would go back to the hospital. The only way I could sleep was when I was drugged up on morphine, given to me through an IV at the hospital.
My G.I system is still fucked up to this day, over a year later. Old people, infants & toddlers, and people with weakened immune systems would have DIED, and with just one complication, so would I, and so would anyone. Don’t FUCKING risk it.
Well there goes my salad days for a while. @duskblue-art if you eat it, throw it out, don’t chance it!
Pick another green for salads, other lettuce is still okay.. My rabbits used to get romaine lettuce daily but I switched to mustard greens on hearing about this
This is definitely true. We aren’t using romaine lettuce rn at work
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