Stomach Flu Or Food Poisoning?

[Scarlett]

So on Sat night I had a chinese.. Sunday early morning I had stomach pains and then diarrhoea. I felt increasingly worse throughout the day and ended up lying in bed, achy with no energy, just like flu. Diarrhoea continued til I was empty. I didn't eat anything until later in the evening. Today I feel loads better, but still anything I eat/drink goes straight through me. After visiting the loo I feel hot and exhausted. I'm not ill enough to see the doc so wondered if anyone on here could diagnose? My friend had diarrhoea last week, so I reckon it must be a stomach bug. Will it clear up on its own?

[Sqad]

"Stomach bug" .".Food poisoning"...same thing, the only difference in either is the causative organism.
Viral or bacterial........the former comes on within 24 hours and that seems to fit with your history.
Drink plenty,diet coke or similar from the pharmacist and start to eat when you feel like it. Eat what you can "stomach."
It will settle.

[Scarlett]

Thanks Sqad. I have more energy today and feel like eating, but my stomach clearly doesn't want me to! I guess I am a bit paranoid as I've had ulcerative colitis and the symptoms are quite similar- diarrhoea as soon as food goes down. But I felt so ill yesterday it did feel more like food poisoning or a bug than UC.