What's your most memorable India illness?

robotvoice

i could not stand to read a single entire post on this thread.

you'all are trying to make me sick.


p.s. you don't want to know about my worst illeness.

girlone

Hmmm, a bad case of 'change in seasons'!!

After spending a day and a half on the tiles driving the porcelain bus, I thought it couldn't get any worse... My mistake!
The other end started, and the vomiting continued. Sitting on the loo with a bucket between my knees for a good 24 hours. I developed blisters on my tush that took a good three months to disappear.
Had my partner call a nurse at one point, only to be told it was due to a 'change in seasons'!! Ummm, ok...

G1

rhill1

wot about meat in 4 or 5 star hotels?? chicken kebabs??
in Delhi in 5 weeks...cannot wait!!!!!!!!!!

theyyamdancer

A black toenail from the rubbing of my hiking boots! Oh yes and the obligatory food poisoning. First trip to India was without incident but this latest second trip we both got violently ill in Varanasi. I think (since Mr T and myself were not eating the same dishes of food) that it was the mineral water to blame. I suspect strongly that the bottle of "Yes" water had been tampered with. Next time I should buy "No" water! It was either that or the food on the plane which included a sandwich with a very slimy salad. Having already spent three carefree weeks of good digestion we carelessly ate the cucumber slices. Or, third hypothesis, the straws in the lassi in Varanasi... maybe. Whatever, it somewhat ruined the end of the trip. I personally did not think I would make it out alive after passing out on the toilet while simultaneously vomiting and ridding myself of the contents of my intestine... OK.... you get the picture. Well, they say that you should always leave something behind in Varanasi!

wonderwomanusa

If you're going to eat meat, eat at the busiest place you can find. In Old Delhi, that might be Karim's -- a famous kebab house.

The reason being that you want fast turnover of food, not stuff that has been sitting around under who know's what conditions or refrigeration.

zoltan

I'm with the OP on this one - amoebic dysentary (actually contracted in Kmd).

I suffered with this for 4 days before being taken to hospital for assistance.

Great weight loss program :-)

Cheers
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rhill1

cheers wonderwomanusa & Zoltan for your posts...agree about the wieght loss but not via dysentry!!
Anyone eaten at Karims?? Have checked it out on Youtube...kebabs look good plus chor bazarre looks yummy too.......24 days to go..........

puchoo

Karim's is not to be missed...happens to be on the most popular and the best places to go for that type of cuisine.

I can also suggest Moti Mahal - again on Daryanganj..but if you are there then you might as well head off to Karim which is 5 minutes away...

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rhill1

Puchoo,
how is CP going? Full of touts or is it ok for tourists to walk around??????????

rhill1

Please excuse my ignorance...Karim's type of food?? muslim??

puchoo

....you'll be fine!!!! Touts cant be avoided but the can be told to shove off...!

puchoo

Mughlai..

sannna

Nice thread - and so old!!

My worst disease in India was Typhoid. First felt ill in Warangal, AP. I was feverish, and a bit delirirous. It was night I was cold and hot, but thought it was not necessary to wake up my mom, whom I was travelling with. Next morning I told her I did not sleep much and felt weird. I had a massive headdache and all my joints and muscles hurt. I felt very fatigued and had no energy even to get out of bed. My fever was rising and rising. The next day, with a fever of around 40 degrees celsius, we went to see a doctor. The hospital was tiny and straight from the 1950s, when it came to the tools they were using, the way they desinfected stuff etc. What I remember best is that I was put on a bed, and the nurse wanted to put a thermometer in my mouth. Seeing the dirty desinfection cup it just came out of I did not thought that was a good idea and managed to tell her that I had just checked my temp an hour ago. After that another nurse put her hand on my forehead. Her hand was cold as ice and I wished that she would never take them off. It was so pleasant om my feverish head :-).

The doctor came and diagnosed me quickly: mystery fever. Ten minutes later we were outside with, what seemed, a random a presciption of antibiotics, paracetamol (to get the fever down) and multivitamins.

After two days the medicine did not had any effect. Actually I felt worse. I was constipated, major headdaches, no appatite, and still a big fever. We decided to move to another city to find better doctor. We went to Vijaywada. It was a long train journey, but I told my mom i could handle it. I could sleep in the train, so it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunaltely there was a 10 hour delay because of a typhone/cyclone racing through AP (it was october 2005).

In Vijaywada we found a better doctor who listened to my heartbeat and told me it was typhoid probably. The trick of diagnosing was that with typhoid you do have a high fever, but your heartbeat remains the same. Then he did a bloodtest and although my mom and I both found it a bit weird that the hotel guy (who came a long with us) did not feel any inhibition to open our envelop with the test results and read it out loud in front of us and many other people waiting in the waiting room, we were very happy that there was a good diagnosis.

I got the right antibioptics and it took me a week or so to recover fully. The scariest thing was the fact that at a certain point, after a day or three, I was hardly able to walk anymore. All the energy had drained from me so quickly! The most painful part was the immense headdache and the most annoying thing the constipation. The best part: I am immune now.

As was mentioned upthread - there is a vaccination for typhoid, but it does not make you 100% immune. Doctors diasagree, but the protection is only 50-70% it seems.

triliana

Lived in Delhi for 13 months, ate meat like a tiger (except not raw), and the worst digestive illness I got was a 2-day stomachache after having the absolute best chicken rolls from a guy who sets up shop after hours in Priya complex. It went away and I moved on with my life.

But getting chikungunya wasn't fun at all. I had no idea what it was and a deadline at the office, so I kept assuming it was a 24-hour bug and I would be better the next day. For four days. And the painkillers I took for it made all the joint pain go away, which made me less tired and feverish... but it was horrible on my stomach. To this day the only thing I can take for pain is acetaminophen/paracetamol. No more ibuprofen or naproxen for me

The worst part was that the treatment was complete bed rest for 7 days which meant no people around. And when the internet wasn't working, I thought I'd go crazy.

singsub

damn !!!

i didnt expect karim's to be youtube-able !!!