Kogasa said: R'plarrgh

Nice to see you're accepting the Elder gods, Kogasa

Hang on, Kogasa-san.

And that's a whole lot of snow.

Keep on digging!

Well, if it doesn't stop after a while, it might be a good time to start worrying. Also that's why you should always have some medicine to counter food poisoning, especially while on a trip. Talk about lessons learned the hard way >_>

There's medicine that counters food poisoning?

Hope what happen to Kogasa is not the goddess wrath....for leaving her behind

BadRoad said:
There's medicine that counters food poisoning?

Cure potion.

BadRoad said:
There's medicine that counters food poisoning?

There is? Don't know if they can be called "medicine", but various absorbents (like activated carbon or silicon dioxide) are known as common treatment to acute poisoning, at least here, in Russia. There is a variety of these at drugstores, and while the taste is horrible, I must say that they DO work.

Cure potion.

Well, if all potions taste like this, no wonder that drinking them takes up a turn :3

Well, some people said that egg white is pretty good against some weak poisons.

BadRoad said:
There's medicine that counters food poisoning?

Depends on the contamination and the toxin. Usually, doctors are confined to treating symptoms, and the general way to go is activated carbon to absorb any toxins, along with an injection of Vitamin B6 to prevent vomiting as much as possible.

Or, they could just page Medi to have her purge the toxin...

Well, I knew there were anti-emetics (had to take one with a particularly bad stomach flu), but that seems like it would do more harm than good if you're vomiting because your body needs to purge an ingested toxin. The best treatment I could think of was administering fluids to prevent dehydration. I didn't know that was what activated carbon was for (or, until I looked it up just now, what was done to "activate" it).

BadRoad said:
Well, I knew there were anti-emetics (had to take one with a particularly bad stomach flu), but that seems like it would do more harm than good if you're vomiting because your body needs to purge an ingested toxin. The best treatment I could think of was administering fluids to prevent dehydration. I didn't know that was what activated carbon was for (or, until I looked it up just now, what was done to "activate" it).

Quite a number of things can cause vomiting, up to and including neural damage, in which case an anti-emetic is very useful. They're also used to relieve vomiting and nausea after operations.
When the vomiting involves suspicions of a toxin, you usually don't get an anti-emetic, but you get absorbents, or possibly a specific antidote (if one exists), for the same reason you point out (toxins are better out than in).

Depending on the type of food poisoning, it can be light or very severe. Seeing as Kogasauthor is still able to stand and walk we can assume the food poisoning isn't too bad. The more severe cases you will be glued to your toilet seat with a large bucket next to you for collecting vomit as your ass chants lamentations to the Old Ones.

RiderFan said:
as your ass chants lamentations to the Old Ones.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!

...Thanks to you, I'll never be able to see that the same way again.

Despite what I wrote, they did put out a "turning to heavy snow" forecast. We just never thought it would pile up that high in one night.

As things turned out, I was repeatedly blowing chunks for the rest of this trip, but I'm in exceedingly good health now, so rest easy.

Reader-added tags include "You've a sparkling expression, Kogasa-san", "Mouth-fired Master Spark", and "Kogasa: 'I don't just do rain! I do snowBLARRRGH'".

The poll ponders walking through a winter wounder-land:

What are you sure about on snowy roads?
• Slipping
• Falling
• Getting wet
• Turning transparent
• That's the one, officer

Hm, I think I get it. Kogasa-san goes on a trip while healthy, it rains. Kogasa-san goes on a trip and vomits, blizzard. I wonder how other ailments effect that fun little ability of hers?

For the poll, slipping is a sure thing for me, but I don't usually fall. Usually...