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.
Danielle Hendricks, 32, initially had stomach troubles while travelling in India, but didn’t think much of it.
In a video posted on her TikTok page @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.
So, in the caption she said despite the food from an unnamed restaurant ‘looking and tasting suspect,’ she forced herself to eat it.
When she returned home to Melbourne in 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.
But her condition worsened, with her suffering from more pain after the gym than usual and lower back tightness.
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.
After pushing through to finish the appointment and lying down to rest, she realised she couldn’t get back up for three hours.
Ms Hendricks was bedridden in hospital unable to stand or walk for weeks in debilitating pain
As her pain worsened, she called an ambulance who took her to hospital where doctors eventually told her she had Typhoid.
This was after weeks of being bedridden with debilitating muscle spasms, because the painkillers she was given provided little relief.
The bleeding disease that famously killed the husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, can be fatal if not treated quickly.
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.
Most British cases are linked to travel to India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan, where the disease is more common.
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.
After her diagnosis, through ‘the most unbearable pain’ she had to relearn how to stand and walk.
She had suffered a rare complication from typhoid called septic arthritis, which is a serious joint infection.
The 32-year-old had the gruelling job of relearning how to stand and walk after falling ill
Symptoms include severe joint pain, swelling, redness, limited movement, and often a fever.
The very rare infection had spread to her hip joint, causing severe inflammation, and was treated with antibiotics for six weeks.
It follows warning from health officials just last month that cases of Typhoid have reached a record level in Britain.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recorded 702 cases of typhoid fever, and a related illness called paratyphoid fever in 2024.
This was an eight per cent rise on the previous year and is the highest number of cases ever recorded.
UKHSA officials also warned there had also been a concerning rise of antibiotic-resistant typhoid in Pakistan.
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.
Globally, a fifth of typhoid cases worldwide are fatal, though this is rarer in countries like the UK.
Symptoms of a typhoid infection usually develop between one to two weeks after a person is infected.
It initially triggers flu-like symptoms such as a fever, headache, aches and pains, fatigue, a cough but also constipation.
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.
With treatment, such as antibiotics, the infection usually clears within three to five days.
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.
It came as health officials also warned that the number of people infected with salmonella in the UK had risen to a record high.
Latest figures revealed cases had soared by almost a fifth in a single year in 2024 to over 10,000 cases.
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