Bad Oyster - how many hours until it hits you?

Depending on the bacteria/virus, it could be 1 hour or a couple of days. You really can't diagnose what food made you sick unless multiple people got sick eating the same food.

Raw gulf Tx oysters

Left out another fact. Shared the dozen with a buddy, he reported stinky gas as the only after effects. There was beer, pescador al vapor and ceviche involved as well. All dishes were shared.

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Bad oyster hit me around 1:00am after eating them around 6PM. If you aren’t blowing liquid yuck from both sides, I don’t think it’s the oysters. Don’t remember having a headache because the nausea and vomiting/shitting had me rather preoccupied.

Hit me by the time I got home from the restaurant (Chimes on Highland). After two days I went to urgent care, they put 3 liters of iv fluids in me. First and only time in my life I’ve been critically dehydrated, that was some wild shite.

Bout 3 minutes and 50 seconds.

Gotta fry them bad boys and put em on some bread.

In my only bad oyster experience it was just 3 hours between consumption at a party and the first wave of nausea and flop sweats. Luckily I recovered in just 24 hours.

Traditional strategies are: Eat only cooked oysters in warm months when pathogenic bacteria abound in feeding waters. Avoid raw oysters shipped long distances. Oysters are like other seafood in that temperatures high enough for bacteria to thrive become more likely to be experienced when the supply chain is long and complicated.

Unfortunately sewage from increasing coastal development and nutrient runoff from ag have impacted most oyster growing/harvesting areas. Enjoy a nice oyster stew.