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Re: *Bleurgh* *splat* *splat* *splat*
by laputain
as someone who spent two weeks with campylobacter last summer, you have my sympathies. i read a good bit about it at the time because i am a medical microbiologist and us scientists like to know what we are shitting (in my case, my gut!) and as my dad is a gp i got to know quite a bit about the best treatment. 1)no eating! stop it now. it'll do your poor insides no good at all 2)drink lots and lots of sugary drinks to keep your spirits and fluids up. After a week i got really sick of the taste of coke and fanta lemon so i moved onto posh things like schloer. rehydration fluids taste foul so i took them with a big slug of ribena mixed in too, and drank them as fast as poss. if you were away from medical help then you would have to drink flat coke, eat bananas and salty crisps to keep your salt and sugar at the right level(take note for the next foreign episode of delhi belly), but you aren't, so go for the sachets. 3) it is quite likely that you have something notifiable. food poisoning is massively underreported. give your gp a phone and explain to the receptionist that you have food poisoning and would appreciate it if a gp would pop round when it suits them to let you give them some samples and to supply some rehydation sachets. they should comply. as i started work in a microbiology lab today (in the office, sigh) i can be all ecclesiastical about reporting these things. v important, although you will end up with environmental health crawling all over you.
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