Most common questions used to investigate
Do you experience abdominal cramps during your trip or shortly after you return home?
Do you experience nausea during your trip or shortly after you return home?
Do you experience abrupt onset of passage of three or more loose stools a day during your trip or shortly after you return home?
Do you experience an urgent need to defecate during your trip or shortly after you return home?
Do you experience a need to vomit during your trip or shortly after you return home?
Do you experience fever during your trip or shortly after you return home?
Common conclusions
Based on your answers, you are unlikely to have traveler’s diarrhea. Traveler’s diarrhea is a digestive tract disorder that most of the time causes loose stools and abdominal cramps. It can be caused by eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water. The good news is that the problem usually isn’t serious, it’s ‘just’ unpleasant and it will pass within several days.
Based on your answers, you are displaying some signs related to traveler’s diarrhea. Traveler’s diarrhea is a digestive tract disorder that most of the time causes loose stools and abdominal cramps. When you visit a place where the sanitary practices or climate are different from what you are used to, you may develop traveler’s diarrhea. Therefore, it’s important to always be careful about what you eat and drink while traveling. The good news is that the problem usually resolves itself without treatment. In case it persists, it’s important to visit a doctor.
Unfortunately, you are displaying the symptoms typically seen among individuals who have traveler’s diarrhea. The problem usually goes away on its own within several days. However, in more severe cases the symptoms last longer and are caused by organisms other than common bacteria. In such cases, you need to visit a doctor to help you get better. In case you experience mile or severe dehydration, persistent vomiting, high fever, bloody stools, or severe pain in the abdomen or rectum, you should visit a doctor immediately.
References
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/travelers-diarrhea/symptoms-causes/syc-20352182
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