for the expats in india: Early Health Problems?

vin1985

so when you finally moved to india from wherever it was you lived did you experience health problems i.e diarrhea or any other annoying stomach problems in the first few weeks/months/maybe years? did your body eventually adapt? hm...

Nick-H

I changed your thread title to be more explicit, hopefuly to attract those who may be able to answer.

My own answer is --- No.

However I was ill more often than not on short tourist visits!

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mairangi_vice

Nope. I think I had a problem of this type only a couple of times in the 18 months Ive been here. Lucky I guess?

Tapestry

No - I can't really recall any memorable problems in 3 1/2 years.

onajourney

YES - For the first three to four weeks of my time in India, I had some stomach problems, although they were never too serious. The local doctor/hospital gave me some medicine, and after about 10 days, it went away.

Tapestry

Oh, wait, I forgot. I did have dengue fever last fall. That sucked.

puchoo

i'm not an expat but i think i know enough of them here in India to be able to put in my 2 cents here , the most major problem i have come across is stomachs going wonky....that too primarily because of them not being used to the degree of spiceness etc...

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Nick-H

You forgot having Dengue?

Good grief; I wonder what other potentially lethal and really dreadful diseases you had without even noticing!



Seriously, there are many diseases I'd rather have than Dengue, but I'm glad to hear that you are recovered. How long did it last?

Tapestry

Dengue lasted a full week. It had weird lingering stomach side effects and I had painful eye problems and vision distortion (that's all aside from the regular grueling dengue joint stuff and rash), but it did clear up.

Apparently it's when you get it a second (or third, etc...) time that you're much more vulnerable to getting Dengue hemorrhagic fever. That would be more serious. Luckily, it didn't happen with this first infection, and let's hope there isn't a second one!

alabamagoa

Hi my husband had falsiparim, malaria more common term but thats the worst one. That was 1 year after moving here and the Doctor said you should not take malaria tabs on a long term basis just spray yourselves well. cost us 500pounds in medical bills but hey what price on a life, and its not reoccurring. only if you get bitten again.

Indianworker

Had severe diarrhea/dysentry in my third month here and ended up in hospital with blood clots in my right leg due to dehydration.

Nothing serious after that but did have a bad bout of stomach probs last Aug to December but that seems to have calmed down now - don't know what caused it.

Generally my ill health has been down to a dodgy stomach with a few colds thrown in for good measure.

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Hemmie

We have all had some diarrhea in the first couple of weeks, nothing serious, and now and then it still happens (we've been here 1 year). But it is always only for 1 or 2 days.
Apart from that, and the usual cold we would have gotten back home as well, no health problems at all.

costaguana

I was fine for my first two months living in India and then pretty ill on and off for the next six. Mostly diarrhea, flu and skin rashes, but I was also hit with two nasty kidney infections (one after another) which were no fun at all.

That being said, I haven't had anything too serious for well over a year now. Obviously my body is adapting and I'm also being a lot more careful.

vin1985

hmm so those who fell ill what was the cause? was it due to drinking comntaminated water? street food? mosquito bites? or other?

i actually remember drinking bottled water that i thought was safe but after tasting and feeling it's texture on my tongue i couldn't believe how much chlorine was in it...i was sick already but this made it worse...even my cousin started vomitting from it who lives there and can stomach the indian water

Nick-H

There is (sorry to be picky, but it might be important to someone somewhere!) no such thing as the Indian water.

You could take the houses in one street; some may use local-authority chlorinated water, some may use water pumped from a deep bore, some may use water drawn from a shallow well, others may buy water of varying cleanliness from tankers.

Even houses with the same source of supply may have clean or dirty storage tanks.