Where did I pick up tummy bug?

MrsE_2

MrsE wrote: »

Sorry:o

Did I mention it was a mustard yellow colour, but thin like water:o

photome

MrsE wrote: »

Did I mention it was a mustard yellow colour, but thin like water:o

Campylobacter is a notifiable disease (if thats the right word) in the Uk and would be investigated , unlikely you had that as I know of two people to have had it, one being me and it lasts about 2 weeks, (3 weeks before fully fit) you feel like you are going to die, cant get out of bed for days except to go to the loo and lose about a stone in weight.

It is the worst illness I have ever had

More likely the first one which comes back to human facaes on paper money!!!!

MrsE_2

photome wrote: »

Campylobacter is a notifiable disease (if thats the right word) in the Uk and would be investigated , unlikely you had that as I know of two people to have had it, one being me and it lasts about 2 weeks, (3 weeks before fully fit) you feel like you are going to die, cant get out of bed for days except to go to the loo and lose about a stone in weight.

It is the worst illness I have ever had

No weight loss:rolleyes:

It amazed me how long they take to show up after eating or contracting.

TBH I thought Clostridium Perfringens sounded less serious, & what I had was horrible, but not serious (but it seemed it at the time! On the loo!).

IvanOpinion

MrsE wrote: »

Because I was in Cairo the day before, I wasn't in the pool for AT LEAST 48 hours before the bout.

Would that rule it out?

No, one of the most comon v&d bugs comes from the Noro family (often referred to a Norwalk or Norovirus). It is the one that the media likes to over sensationlise in relation to cruise ships. It can lie dormant for a period of 48-72 hours before a person shows symptoms.

It is unlikely that you will ever get to learn what actually caused your illness .. my doctor once informed me that he would need a stool sample and was disappointed when I turned up with my purchase form Ikea

Ivan

cazziebo

IvanOpinion wrote: »

No, one of the most comon v&d bugs comes from the Noro family (often referred to a Norwalk or Norovirus). It is the one that the media likes to over sensationlise in relation to cruise ships. It can lie dormant for a period of 48-72 hours before a person shows symptoms.

It is unlikely that you will ever get to learn what actually caused your illness .. my doctor once informed me that he would need a stool sample and was disappointed when I turned up with my purchase form Ikea

Ivan

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Reminds me of when I went to the doctor's when I had food poisoning and he asked me what colour the stools were. Odd question I thought. Looked around the room and he had plastic moulded chairs - thought that was what he meant so answered "blue"...

Debt_Free_Chick

MrsE wrote: »

Well I've gone through them all & I've narrowed it down to two.

All the others have vomiting & other symptoms, which I didn't have.

I don't think you can totally eliminate all of the others due to the absence of vomiting. I think the symptoms described for each bacteria are "typical" but will vary from one person to the next.

You have to consider that of every single thing you came into contact with, did everyone else who came into contact with it wash their hands thoroughly after using the loo. The answer - in this country as well as everywhere else - is "not likely"! In Egypt and other similar countries, levels of personal hygiene are .... erm .... well, less well practised. Historically - and to a certain extent today - this is due to the social conditions in which people survive with no drinking water and/or poor sanitary conditions. You simply don't see this as a tourist.

I think it's also true to say that their constitutions are stronger than ours - years of exposure to bacteria has made them less susceptible than us to tummy upsets and this probably only leaves them believing that our standards of personal hygiene are unnecessary.

I spent two weeks in Egypt more than 20 years ago in Cairo, Luxor and Aswan and had one bought of V&D. Which, given everything I've written, is not bad going for a 15 day stay!

Anyway, I guess my point is that the level of hygiene in Egypt in generally less than in the UK and our tummies, not used to these things, are very prone to pick up something or other.

sloppychops

Thank god you put & between the v and d,although i did look twice lol

asea

A fly could have landed on your food & passed something nasty on...

I lived in Egypt & know of this happening, a friend got a form of hepatitis (I think it was hepatitis, it was years ago now) & the doc thought that she got it from flies on her food

asea

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

You have to consider that of every single thing you came into contact with, did everyone else who came into contact with it wash their hands thoroughly after using the loo. The answer - in this country as well as everywhere else - is "not likely"! In Egypt and other similar countries, levels of personal hygiene are .... erm .... well, less well practised. Historically - and to a certain extent today - this is due to the social conditions in which people survive with no drinking water and/or poor sanitary conditions. You simply don't see this as a tourist.
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Well I lived there for years & never saw any evidence of what you are talking about! What do you mean in Egypt levels of personal hygiene are less well practised - how arrogant!

In fact being a Muslim country & many of the lower social classes in Egypt being quite devout your words don't make much sense - seeing as they make ablutions using water at least 5 times a day to pray and it's a religious duty to wash hands after going to the toilet.

In fact, I would often have to defend the Western 'ideas' of cleanliness to many people as the consensus at the time seemed to be that they found the Western ways less clean than their own! In fact one of the main gripes was that the Western people that they came into contact with wouldn't really wash their hands after going to the toilet - something they found disgusting & couldn't understand!

mrs_moneyspinner

a bit late in the day I just though I would add that somebody coughing or sneezing on your food and/or wiping their rear and not washing their hands then holding your plate plus having a fag and then holding your plate or passing you your cutlery and also your serviette (paper) could all transfer germs - my husband recently got ill enough to go to hospital in nice clean USA by an air borne bacteria so there is no escape! except for michael jackson