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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.
It is vitally important to treat symptoms of food poisoning as soon as they appear. One home remedy for suspected food poisoning is complete bedrest. Many cases of food poisoning are caused by parasites or bacteria, which enter the body by the thousands or millions immediately after one ingests contaminated food. As a defense mechanism, your body should begin to send out antibodies to combat the invasion.