No, you should be without symptoms for a minimum of 24hrs before you go back to normal activities like work, school, going out, meeting people

Very odd to suddenly feel better. But maybe he really did recover so quickly, and I guess you’d be really hungry buy then haha.

It would be extremely inconsiderate to attend, it’s also extremely inconsiderate to put someone under pressure to continue the dinner plans in this situation

If you have been sick, you should wait until a minimum of 24 hours since last symptoms to be around other people. Hope he didn’t spread his tummy bug to anyone else.

How would he feel if his mum got sick obviously he wasn’t that sick most people would at least wait until the next day.

Oh this would really upset me that simply because his mother wants him to attend he does. And how rude of his mother. Nope…this entire situation would annoy me big time.

I don’t think I could – I think the sight and smell of food would have be running to the bathroom. And nothing worse than not being at home when you are crook and needing a bathroom!

I would be staying home and recovering!

Well, food poisoning isn’t infectious, so he’s not a danger to anyone. I wouldn’t feel like it, but I guess there’s no harm if he feels up to it.

After a tummy upset a stomach needs lots of tlc and gentle and bland foods. Staying away from others is also a must to avoid any possible passing/spreading of any bug.

Super strange! Why would you go to a dinner party after a day of gastro? Can’t think of anything worse and how horrible if it was something contagious and he just passed it on. Also, what is wrong with the mother who is making him attend? How bizarre!

Why would he take the chance of passing something off to his parents if it was actually gastro? If it was food poisoning it takes at least a day after the symptoms have gone for me to recover sufficiently to do anything. Either he’s still attached by the apron strings or he was never as bad as he made out he was.

I would have thought it best not to go for all sorts of reasons. 1. A quick recovery from food poisoning – in my experience it absolutely exhausts and depletes you. 2. It’s the best reason to get out of a dinner party. 3. I’d be worried I could pass it onto others at the dinner party. You just never know. You would want to be sure it was food poisoning and not gastro or similar.

Sounds like he was faking gastro/food poisoning. If he was truly ill, mommas boy or not, he would never be able to recover to attend much less eat. I’ve had gastro and food poisoning in my lifetime and I was like an old rung out dish rag for days, even when the vomiting and diarrhea stopped. Even with all the gastro stop and electrolyte replacement I still felt like rubbish.

Hmmm sounds similar to when a guy has ‘man flu’ otherwise known as a cold. Perhaps he was exaggerating how severe the throwing up was, and it was more like a mild upset tummy bug. Otherwise I’d be thinking his mum has a pretty big hold over him