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A Houston woman who said she vomited blood after eating Tina Knowles’s gumbo is speaking out about her health scare.

The health department briefly shut down Mama Tina’s Gumbo stand at the Houston Rodeo after multiple complaints of food poisoning.

In a livestream video, the unidentified woman said her eyes are still swollen days after suffering apparent food poisoning. “I got the bubble guts,” she said. “I done took all type of diarrhea medicine, like all type of medicine to get better and I’m not better.”

She said she experienced nausea and vomited blood hours after eating the gumbo.

The woman tested positive for a potentially deadly bacteria called Clostridium difficile, aka C. diff. in her feces.

C. diff causes inflammation in the large intestine (colitis) and can damage the colon.

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Health inspectors cited Tina Knowles for multiple food safety violations, including food stored improperly in orange Home Depot buckets and no logs indicating temperature of stored food.

After correcting the violations, Knowles was allowed to reopen her gumbo stand one day later on March 17.

Knowles has not spoken publicly about the incidents at the Houston Rodeo. She previously claimed she has been making her family recipe for four decades.

But health inspectors said the gumbo was made off-site at an unlicensed location and transported to the rodeo in non-food grade containers.

Inspectors found thawed seafood in orange buckets and thawed shrimp and crabs marked “Keep frozen.”

Fans avoided Mama Tina’s Gumbo stand on the last day of the rodeo. Cell phone video shows a lone worker who looked bored as people walked by.