Salmonella from Chickens: What are the symptoms?

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

I know this isn't about chicken's being sick, more so humans.
I love my chickens. I love on em and am around them most of the time. Yesterday, I started feeling really sick. Sore throat and overheating feeling. I couldn't sleep and woke up this morning feeling horrible. I have a sore throat, the chills yet burning up, diaheria, and weakness. I feel like I'm about to pass out and collapse. I feel dehydrated and extremely exhausted. Could it possibly be Salmonella? What are the symptoms? If it's not salmonella, any other ideas? Thanks

 

[jamiehjacobs]

Sounds like a pretty normal flu to me, or possibly strep. Salmonella is pretty much food poisoning, so some of those symptoms don't really match. I would go to the doctor.

 

[dawg53]

Here you go:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/salmonella/DS00926/DSECTION=symptoms

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

Thank yall.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I was in a seminar once where I seem to remember (hows that for a certainty) someone saying that one in every 175,000 hens eggs tested was infected with a form of salmonella that was dangerous to humans. That doesn't mean that the person who eats this 1/175,000 egg gets sick it only means that you have been exposed to the bacteria. Cooking BTW kills this bacteria. This is just one reason that fire was such a game changer in the development of human civilization.

There are likely over 500 different strains or separate species of salmonella bacteria. Most are not deadly to people or are not even able to live in the human gut, especially the kind we were discussing here, pullorum salmonella. You can't get this type. So you likely have the flu (a virus infection) similar to the kind of flu I had a month or so ago. I didn't die, but I wanted to. I hope you get to feeling better. Hang in there, but if you think that you need to see your doctor or NP go.