Bad Guts ....
 

Hi been here now for 9 months and had a bout of dysentery about 5 months ago which hospitalised me for 5 days .... It's not pleasant and I hope no one here gets it but again I have been struck down by an awful bug similar to dysentery but no fever .... As I can not afford the private hospital fees has anyone suffered similar as its really got me down .... It's been 3 weeks of not eating and what I do eat vacates quite quickly ... I'm drinking but .... I remember one of you also having something similar and commented .... So I'm throwing it out there hoping one of you remembers your post and if you had any recommendations on medication ? Cheers lucky I'm a big lump or I would have disappeared by now !! 😜😜

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"So I'm throwing it out there" may not be the best phrase to use considering the circumstances. I always use a few glasses of whiskey or other min 40% proof spirit, neat over a couple of nights.

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When I had it I spent a couple of nights in hospital on a drip because of dehydration. I started drinking sports drinks slowly as it was the only thing I could retain.

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Best thing to drink is coconut water from young coconuts. Better at hydrating than most sports drinks and higher in potassium. If you were thinking of a DIY drip, in WWII they used to use young coconuts as a drip.

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One of the problems is the loss of salt from the body. Sports drinks tend to help replace this, not sure about coconut water. Aalthought I could drink coconut water by the gallon, it sure would get you running.

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Coconut water has about 80% of the sodium that the average sports drink does, but it does have about 3 times the amount of potassium which is supposed to do something a lot better than sodium ( not too sure what ), plus being better for you.

250ml of coconut water and an 80mg aspirin a day does wonders for high blood pressure

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...... Yes even though pretty weak .... I appreciate your humour Stokkevn .... Perhaps not the best term to be using and I apologise for the image it may produce lol

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Diet is consisting of dry toast banana and water along with Buko juice .... I'll just keep that going until things change thanks as it seems to be the most common prescription cheers

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Bazza you need to be careful with dysentery as it is highly contagous and you will be spreading it around. Also do you know if you have amoebic dysentery or
bacillary dysentery. Both can have nasty side effects if left untreated, parasites in the liver and such things.

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previously it was amoebiasis ... i don't know what this is as I've not been to the qwack as money is a bit tight at the mo... thanks

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Might be worth having a look at the following.
Dysentery - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, Diagnosis - MedBroadcast.com

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Thanks ... Much appreciated ..

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So flatulance is a sign. Perhaps I need to get checked out.

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Hospitals here are quick to get one into a long term bed. The driver for a local judge was in hospital for a few days for acid reflux, drip, antibiotic injections, 24 hour care etc, cost him over a months wages. I told him to contact me next time he got it, he did and I gave him a Gaviscon tablet and one to take home with him, problem resolved for just a few Peso.

PS flatulence is from having a too healthy diet - 5 a day produces gas

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Just a little update ... finally yesterday been given the ok ....yippee.
Had dysentery amoebiasis for full 5 weeks (not funny) ,,, then as a result of Flagyl antibiotic I contracted Yeast Gut infection for a further 10 days (known side effect of flagyl) ... then just to make things worse 6 days ago had massive reflux which aggravated an unknown 2.5 cm Gallstone.. This lead to an ultrasound scan of my body which revealed an enlarged prostate too !!!! At that moment I wanted the ground to open up ... but luckily everything is ok .... relatively and am now on the slow road to recovery. "Its more phun in the Phili" .... really ??? :) :)

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How do you ( and me ) catch all these things, is it because we are sensitive to some bugs or just unlucky. I worked in Egypt for two years and had breakfast 3 or 4 times a week in a quite unsavory cafe, but served the best egg sandwich, that when we arrived he cleaned our glasses with his cloth, followed by the ash tray, the chairs we were to sit on and the frying pan and finally one day killed a cockroach crawling up the wall with a flick of, you've guessed it, the same cloth, never had a bad stomach in the whole time I was there.
I went back to Aberdeen and within the first 5 days back the last 3 were spent on the throne.

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I may have found the answer at last, to my now very sensitive tummy ....
2 days ago my good lady exclaimed that the water coming out of our kitchen tap was blue!!
Yeah yeah I thought but to my amazement she was not only spot on but it was darker than I had imagined. Now just by coincidence or now not, we bought a "blue loo toilet block" and duly dumped in said cistern and after some investigation by a good friend who just happens to be a brilliant plumber, we have found that the plumbing between the toilet cistern and kitchen tap water is combined somehow. We have now rectified this with a gated valve but it does make wonder if all my troubles stem from this ??
I suppose i really should only worry when my pee is blue too !! http://britishexpats.com/forum/image...ilies/rofl.gif

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You would be in good company, George the Third, I believe!

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Amoebic Dysentery is no joke. You should be careful with your intake of food !