Have you ever got ill overseas?

hi maximax , you really love to travel. I have read from your posts, that your are traveling most of the time, i love traveling too, sometimes i got sick overseas especially if the travel takes for how many days and the waves are big, i just make sure to take medicines for dizziness.

Yes, I have but lucky for me it was only a really minor case. During my time oversea visiting my family my family only drank from bottled water. We were just being careful. But I guess one of my relatives or someone in the home messed up and they filled my water bottle up with tap water or something. I drank a bit of it and didn't feel well. I ended up being sick for two days because of that incident. I'm just happy that that was all that happened to me on that trip. I've had friends that ended up in the hospital for weeks on end after coming back from the same country.

No, that has never happened. And I'm glad it didn't. It must be even harder when one doesn't know the language. The foreign countries I've been to are Australia and New Zealand, but they are English speaking! I could get treated there without much communication. I've been to Mexico too, but that isn't overseas, so I guess that one doesn't count.

I did get a really bad cold on one trip to Europe. that's about the worst of it...

Hi maximax8! I got an upset stomach when I first traveled to Korea. I forget that I drank tap water. I easily get stomach upsets, my stomach is very sensitive. I was hospitalized for 3 days due to dehydration. I don't like being sick without my mom beside me.. haha.. She always take care of me when I got sick. But being sick overseas is very hard. I could not even communicate much with the doctor, luckily, my boyfriend (now my fiance) was having his leave so he was able to take care of me. Happy mylotting!

Well, I think I am easily get ill overseas when I do not do exercise every day. if I sit quietly all day, the body will get cold and suffer a lot latter. So I worry about winter's coming.

maximax8, For me it would have to be a trip to Chiangmai, Thailand where I was on a holiday with a group of classmates. I was then the group leader and during one of the dinners at a local restaurant, I discovered that there was maggots in the dish of fried cabbage. I just had a feeling that trouble would be brewing but being quite busy with the travel schedule, I forgot to get some diarrhea medication in advance. True enough, the next day whilst on the coach back to Bangkok I started having severe diarrhea. I was literally purging at every stop of the 18 hours journey. Needless, to say how weak I was when the group reached Bangkok, I collapsed and was hospitalized for acute food poisoning for 1 week. Since then my stomach's resistance level has been below average and hence, I have avoided raw delicacies and dishes if possible. Even, half boiled eggs could set off a number of discomforts for me.

I got real sick in the Phillippines. this was my frist trip there and my first one overseas. I was sick for about two days but managed to recover. I think I eat something that did not agree with my stomach and I had bad diarria and I threw up a lot. I could not eat anything for about two days also.