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By Mayo Clinic Staff. Food poisoning often improves without treatment within 48 hours. To help keep yourself more comfortable and prevent dehydration while you recover, try the following: 1  Let your stomach settle. Stop eating and drinking for a few hours.  Try sucking on ice chips or taking small sips of water.
Clear fluids can help you recover from food poisoning. Photo Credit Ilya Andriyanov/iStock/Getty Images. Abdominal cramps, nausea, diarrhea, trouble keeping food down -- the symptoms of food poisoning are very similar to those of the stomach flu.hile the stomach flu comes from a virus, food poisoning occurs when you eat food that contains bacteria such as salmonella, listeria, E. coli or Campylobacter. According to KidsHealth, you're most likely to get food poisoning from meat, poultry, eggs, milk and shellfish.