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shrimp
last night i ordered shrimp for the first time. it was really tasty! but afterwards it kind of made my stomach hurt and i got a headache. i actually ended up throwing up later that night most of what i ate! my mom said its probably because ive never had it before and your actually not suppose to eat shrimp because they are toxinous or something? she said they clean out the ocean or something like that. why are you not suppose to eat shrimp is my question? is my mom right
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Are you allergic to shrimp? That could be a reason. Or food poisoning.
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Your mom has kind of missed the point.
She is right that shrimp could sort of be called cleaners. They fed by filtering water through and snatching out the even tinier life forms they like to eat, but that doesn't make them dirty or wrong to eat.
You might have gotten sick because it was an unfamiliar food. You might have gotten sick because it was poorly prepared or undercooked. You might have gotten sick because you have a shellfish intolerance (lots of people do). But it's not because shrimp are wrong to eat, you just have to be careful with how they are prepared and stored, just like you have to be with all seafood.
Almost all shrimp you get in a restaurant are 'farmed'. That means they didn't live out in the wild waters where they might have been exposed to toxins, but in a very controlled tank made by humans. So there really isn't anything inherently bad about eating them unless they weren't taken good care of some place... and that is pretty much the same as any other food.
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