We’ve all been there.
We’re students, or low on cash that week…and Theres hardly anything in the fridge, and
all that remains is some leftovers in a Tupperware container.
You grab the Tupperware, take off the lid, look inside, smell it, and try to judge whether
or not the leftovers are still edible.
Sometimes, if you’re desperate enough, you’ll eat them.
Maybe you’ll get a tummy ache, maybe you wont, its all part of the gamble when you’re
eating leftovers.
Well a student just died because she ate leftover spaghetti, so I have a feeling you’ll probably
go home and throw out all your leftovers immediately.
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In a world where many of us prepare our meals in advance, for either dietary reasons, to
save money or to simply save time, food that’s left in the fridge for too long can end up
being a danger to your health, or even, fatal.
And the risk definitely increases if you happen to leave that leftover food sitting out at
room temperature before you eat it.
A 20 year old unnamed college student from belgium would prepare all his meals for the
week on Sunday afternoon, in order to save a few bucks and a few minutes every morning.
Every Sunday, he would boil pasta, put it into tupperwear containers, and then add sauce
and reheat it throughout the week.
Definitely something I’ve done before.
But 5 days after he made the initial batch of pasta, he reheated the leftovers and left
them in the kitchen at room temperature.
When he tasted his spaghetti, he did think it tasted odd, but he thought it might have
been the new tomato sauce that he was using.
He ate the pasta, and left to play sports.
30 minutes after eating the leftovers, he experienced intense abdominal pain.
He was nauseous, he had a headache.
So he went home.
That’s when the intense bowel movements began.
He started having horrible diharrea, he was vomiting constantly, but he didn’t go to
the hospital.
Instead, he decided to stay at home, drink water and try to sleep it off.
He went to bed at around midnight and drank a whole bottle of pepto bismol.
The next morning, his parents were wondering why their son hadn’t gotten up for classes.
When they went to check on him at 11 am, they found him dead in his bed.
After an examination, it was found that the student died 10 hours after he ate the pasta,
at around 4 am.
Samples were taken from the pasta and the pasta sauce.
According to the autopsy, His liver had shut down, and he showed signs of acute pancreatitis.
After swabbing his feces, they were found to contain a significant amount of a bacteria
responsible for something called fried rice syndrome, a type of food poisoning that’s
caused by eating fried rice dishes that had been sitting out at room temperature for several
hours.
The type of food poisoning, bacillus cereus, is actually quite common, but this case was
actually quite severe.
It’s a spore forming bacteria that produces toxins.
Reheating anything with bacillus cereus on it will not inactivate it.
So what did we learn here?
leftovers are a risky business.
And definitely don’t leave leftovers sitting out after you’ve removed them from the fridge.
It should be noted that One day leftovers are probably okay, two days, sure, give it
a smell and assess, but three days or more, you’re kind of pushing it.
Especially when it comes to meat.
Undercooked chicken is the worst, and very dangerous.
And if you feel sick after eating leftovers, don’t ignore it.
seek medical attention, this student’s life could have been saved if he had simply said
something to his parents and gone to the hospital for medical help.
The case is actually from 2008, published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology in
2011, but it recently gained interest again after it was posted to the youtube channel
of a Clinical Professor, only known as Bernard.
The video he posted has over 2 million views at the time of this recording.
Ok guys that’s all I have for you on this, I’m going to wrap up this video with some
comment replies.
Dr cheats – charlotte where is jarred I miss him.
Edit I haven’t watched this channel in almost a year properly.
Well welcome back, jarred is still around, not working here, but he’s around.
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Info kun – if charlotte opened a café it would be a disaster because shes always spilling
all the tea.
Trend queen – charlotte will never notice me
Blue raccoon boiling water on my body feels good.
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