Food poisoning & dehydration

Dehydrated from food poisoning? Treatment at home.

When you can’t keep even water down, a trip to a clinic or A&E is miserable. A doctor comes to your home to assess how dehydrated you are, settle the vomiting with an injection, and give IV fluids through a drip if you need them.

Book a home visit When to call 995

How a home visit helps

Stop the vomiting, then replace the fluids.

Most food poisoning settles on its own in a day or two. The danger is dehydration: when vomiting and diarrhoea outrun what you can drink, you feel weak, dizzy and wrung out, and it becomes harder to keep anything down.

Home-visit doctor in navy scrubs adjusting an IV drip for a woman recovering from food poisoning at home.

The doctor assesses how dehydrated you are — pulse, blood pressure, how much you’ve been passing urine — and treats accordingly. An anti-vomiting injection often makes it possible to drink again. If you are too dehydrated for that, the doctor can put up an IV drip at home. A drip is a clinical decision made on assessment, not something given on request.

What the doctor does

Assessment and treatment, at home.

Assessment of dehydration

Vital signs and an examination to judge how dry you are, and to check the cause is a stomach bug rather than something that needs hospital.

Anti-vomiting injection

Medication to settle nausea and vomiting, so you can start sipping fluids again.

IV drip when needed

Intravenous fluids at home if you can’t rehydrate by mouth. The doctor tells you how long it will take and the expected cost before starting.

Can’t keep fluids down? Tell us how you’re feeling and a doctor comes to you.

Book a home visit

Safety first

When a home visit is not the right call.

Call 995 or go to A&E instead if

There is blood in your vomit or stool, or your stool is black; you have severe or constant abdominal pain; you are confused, fainting or very drowsy; you have passed no urine for 12 hours or more; or the person unwell is a young baby, very frail or has kidney disease. These need hospital care.

Several people in the household unwell at once? Each additional patient at the same address is $200. Tell us when you book.

How it works

Care arrives in three simple steps.

1. Tell us what’s wrong
WhatsApp or call any hour. We ask a few questions and confirm the fee for your time window.
2. A doctor comes to you
Islandwide, day or night. The arrival window is confirmed when you call.
3. Treatment at home
The visit is a flat $300 in office hours (Mon–Fri, 8am–5pm) or $450 after hours, including a 30-minute consultation. Medication, consumables and procedures are billed on top and itemised on your receipt — the doctor tells you before anything extra is done.

Good to know

Questions, answered.

What people ask before booking.

Talk to our team

Yes, if the doctor assesses that you need one. The doctor checks how dehydrated you are and whether you can rehydrate by mouth after an anti-vomiting injection. If you can’t, a drip can be set up at home.

The visit is a flat $300 in office hours or $450 after hours, including a 30-minute consultation. A drip takes time to run, and visit time beyond the first 30 minutes is billed in 30-minute blocks ($120 office hours, $150 after hours). The drip, medication and consumables are itemised on your receipt. The doctor gives you the expected total before starting.

Yes. The doctor carries medication for nausea and vomiting and can give an injection during the visit, which often makes it possible to keep fluids down again.

Go to A&E or call 995 if there is blood in the vomit or stool, black stool, severe or constant abdominal pain, confusion or fainting, or no urine for 12 hours or more. Babies, frail elderly people and anyone with kidney disease become dehydrated faster and should be assessed early.

Urgent Care At Home Pte Ltd · UEN 202627146M

Contact: hello@urgentcareathome.sg · +65 8505 5728

Urgent Care At Home Pte Ltd is licensed under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 to provide an Outpatient Medical Service by remote and temporary premises.

If you need emergency or life-saving treatment, do not seek it through this service. Call 995 or go to the nearest Emergency Department immediately.