RE: [Leica] RE: Parasite treatments

[Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>]

Guess I've been lucky...  I never had any problems with parasites, even
through numerous trips into the outback of the Philippine Islands, eating
the same stuff as everyone else.  Recently, on the magi journey, the team
ate eggs , bread, and other dairy products at roadside stands, as well as
out of a single huge platter with the right hand, mind you, at a Bedouin
encampment in the Syrian desert.  Still parasite free...  Heck, I usually
even drink tap water wherever I am and have never gotten sick.

- --Jim Laurel

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	BIRKEY, DUANE [SMTP:dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 25, 1998 1:47 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	[Leica] RE: Parasite treatments
> 
> Well,  we take a series of Flagyl treatments every so often and that does 
> a pretty good job with parasites.  I've had numerous battles with bichos 
> of various types and Flagyl (which we joke is more or less rat poison) 
> wins every time.  My wifes stomach doesn't handle it very well though and 
> it leaves an aluminum foil taste in your mouth.   I'd just as not share 
> the details from the other end...........
> 
> Some people take garlic pills every day and that seems to work well.   
> More than anything you need wash your hands well before eating.  Fried 
> foods and well cooked potatoes etc. are usually safe as is guinea 
> pig.........  It seems to take about a week or so before some parasites 
> show much effect so it's pretty hard to tell what and where was the 
> source.  Others well.......  There is less than a pleasant air around the 
> affected. 
> 
> Cold vegetable salads and many seafood dishes seem to be at a higher 
> risk.   Everybody I know comes back with something when they travel to 
> the coast it seems.  But I've gotten food poisoning from Pizza Hut as 
> well as some other very nice restaurants around Quito.  
> 
> Parasites are a normal way of life in much of the world, If you travel 
> around Latin America for a while, sooner or later you'll get them. I've 
> heard of several cases where doctors in the states were stumped by cases 
> that our doctors could have diagnosed in a second.  But we've got a 
> clinical research lab that specializes in those kinds of things  (Note: 
> We developed a cure for river blindness for the World Health 
> Organization).  
> 
> Duane Birkey
> 
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