Singapore: Food Poisoning

Hey guys,

Sorry for not posting over the past few days - I've been really sick.

On the bus trip from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh (in Cambodia) I started to feel ill. By the time we had reached Phnom Penh International Airport I was definitely not well. I tried eating cookies and drinking Sprite (my usual pick-me-up), however it didn't help at all.

The last time Sprite didn't solve a problem was when I had food poisoning at KMart. That was not fun (throwing up in public never is).

So I had food poisoning in Cambodia! Fantastic! This was something I was not going to forget. Andy had lost his passport, both Bernd and Nina had been mildly sick during the trip (Nina the day before) and now I had major stomach issues.

I believe it came from either our decidly 'local' lunch at Bokor the day before, although both Nina and Bernd shared that with me, or the chicken/fish I had on the beach the night before. Whilst we all ate the same food from the same place, I guess I was just unlucky.

All I can say is I am very VERY glad Phnom Penh & Bangkok Airports have clean, new, Western toilets. I can't imagine having diarrohea with squat toilets ... ugh! (I'm going to be VERY careful in China).

Thanks to everyone who travelled with me that day for all your drugs, support and warm clothes.

Now I am feeling a lot better, and the assessment that I missed has been rescheduled I am free to relax (Postcript: my bastard lecturer has turned it into a 3000-word essay due in 4 days - argh!) .

Advice for overcoming food posioning:
Don't take Imodium etc.. unless you HAVE to - believe it or not, I didn't take any till Day 2 (I didn't have any!).Drink only waterEat plain white bread and bananas.Don't visit Singaporean doctors (!) - they just hand you a veritable medicine cabinet full of drugs that don't really help. Plus they keep you waiting AGES with their fantastically useless queuing system.