{"id":253479,"date":"2025-07-10T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253479\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:37:17","slug":"holidaymakers-warning-after-food-poisoning-from-popular-dish-left-her-hospitalised-and-unable-to-walk-due-to-rare-complication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253479\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidaymaker’s warning after food poisoning from popular dish left her hospitalised and unable to walk due to rare complication"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman has claimed eating a popular food while on holiday gave her a Victorian disease that left her unable to walk and in hospital for three weeks.<\/p>\n

Danielle Hendricks, 32, initially had stomach troubles while travelling in India<\/a>, but didn’t think much of it.<\/p>\n

In a video posted on her\u00a0TikTok<\/a>\u00a0page @dhen.mua, that been viewed more than 400,000 times, she revealed she paid ‘top dollar’ for sashimi, a Japanese delicacy consisting of slices of raw fish, in Delhi India.<\/p>\n

So, in the caption she said despite the food from an unnamed restaurant ‘looking and tasting suspect,’ she forced herself to eat it.<\/p>\n

When she returned home to\u00a0Melbourne<\/a>\u00a0in Australia, she continued to suffer from fatigue, nausea, dizziness, and loss of appetite, which she simply put down to readjusting to local food and water.<\/p>\n

But her condition worsened, with her suffering from more pain after the gym than usual and lower back tightness.<\/p>\n

Then suddenly, while at home with a client in February, the hair and makeup artist started to black out, lose vision, and become very short of breath.<\/p>\n

After pushing through to finish the appointment and lying down to rest, she realised she couldn’t get back up for three hours.<\/p>\n

\"Ms <\/p>\n

Ms Hendricks was bedridden in hospital unable to stand or walk for weeks in debilitating pain\u00a0<\/p>\n

As her pain worsened, she called an ambulance who took her to hospital where doctors eventually told her she had Typhoid.<\/p>\n

This was after weeks of being bedridden with debilitating muscle spasms, because the painkillers she was given provided little relief.<\/p>\n

The bleeding disease that famously killed the husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, can be fatal if not treated quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is caused by a type of salmonella bacteria that is usually spread through food and water contaminated with an infected person’s urine or faeces.<\/p>\n

Most British cases are linked to travel to India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan, where the disease is more common.<\/p>\n

In her case, she believes the source of the bacteria ‘could’ve been the water used to defrost the sashimi’ she had ordered while travelling.<\/p>\n

After her diagnosis, through ‘the most unbearable pain’ she had to relearn how to stand and walk.<\/p>\n

She had suffered a rare complication from typhoid called septic arthritis, which is a serious joint infection.<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The 32-year-old had the gruelling job of relearning how to stand and walk after falling ill<\/p>\n

Symptoms include severe joint pain, swelling, redness, limited movement, and often a fever.<\/p>\n

The very rare infection had spread to her hip joint, causing severe inflammation, and was treated with antibiotics for six weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It follows warning from health officials just last month that cases of Typhoid have reached a record level in Britain.<\/p>\n

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recorded 702 cases of typhoid fever, and a related illness called paratyphoid fever in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was an eight per cent rise on the previous year and is the highest number of cases ever recorded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UKHSA officials also warned there had also been a concerning rise of antibiotic-resistant typhoid in Pakistan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a strain that has adapted immunity to the medication used to treat it meaning people infected with this strain are more likely to have serious complications.<\/p>\n

Globally, a fifth of typhoid cases worldwide are fatal, though this is rarer in countries like the UK.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of a typhoid infection usually develop between one to two weeks after a person is infected.<\/p>\n

It initially triggers flu-like symptoms such as a fever, headache, aches and pains, fatigue, a cough but also constipation.<\/p>\n

After this initial wave, symptoms will get worse, with the addition of nausea, diarrhoea and sometimes a rash. It is at this stage that a patient is at high risk of potentially deadly complications.<\/p>\n

With treatment, such as antibiotics, the infection usually clears within three to five days.<\/p>\n

Travellers were also advised to take steps like drinking bottled water, avoiding having ice in drinks and to not eat raw fruit and vegetables while in affected areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It came as health officials also warned that the number of people infected with salmonella in the UK had risen to a record high.<\/p>\n

Latest figures revealed cases had soared by almost a fifth in a single year in 2024 to over 10,000 cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has claimed eating a popular food while on holiday gave her a Victorian disease that left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[186,92,105,730,1464,6026,449,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-253479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-melbourne","13":"tag-pakistan","14":"tag-tiktok","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114828977615326368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}