Help from India!!!!

[leechilvers82]

Hi all

After 5 days in India and on my last morning here I have fallen victim of Delhi belly

I have been extremely careful in what I have eaten but unfortunately become ill on my last day, never had an upset stomach since diagnosed, how should my sugars be reacting?

Have seen a doctor and started 3 days of meds 😉

 

[Copepod]

Assuming you have diarrhoea, the key thing is to prevent dehydration, which means plenty of oral fluids, ideally with sugar and salt to help fluid uptake into your intestines. Eat whatever you can tolerate. With any infection, blood sugar levels are likely to rise, unless you take extra insulin.

What medication have you been prescribed? Antibiotics? Something to stop diarrhoea - not usually recommended unless you have a flight / journey / important meeting etc.

 

[DeusXM]

Test, test, test and keep plenty of insulin and glucose to hand.

I got amoebic dysentery when I last went to India - I was running to the toilet every 5 minutes which I can assure you is not fun in the slightest!

Dehydration is your major problem to avoid. Most chemists in India will stock plenty of of rehydration powder. This does contain glucose so that's why it's important to test constantly. On the one hand, basic infection can cause an increase in blood sugar levels. On the other, gastric issues can cause what you eat to not stay in your body long enough to be absorbed, which then causes a drop in BG levels.

So in other words, your BG levels will be unpredictable. Just do your best to keep them in a vaguely sensible range. But your priority should be about staying hydrated.

 

[Homedaze]

Hi all

After 5 days in India and on my last morning here I have fallen victim of Delhi belly

I have been extremely careful in what I have eaten but unfortunately become ill on my last day, never had an upset stomach since diagnosed, how should my sugars be reacting?

Have seen a doctor and started 3 days of meds 😉

Happened to us too. It may have been caused by the yoghurt, or dodgy drinking water bottles, or the fact that the hot buffet food was not heated through for long enough.

Hope you recover soon but if the symptoms persist when you are back home, take a stool sample to your GP and insist that it be sent for analysis.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Oh no!

Sorry to hear this Lee. Hope you manage to avoid any BG disasters and get well soon.

 

[DeusXM]

take a stool sample to your GP and insist that it be sent for analysis.

For some reason I've got this mental image of someone waving around a plastic bag of their, uh, business in the waiting room of a GP's surgery and shouting a lot.

 

[Lizzzie]

Hi there, this happened to me too. Drink LOTS, test lots (sugars never respond to these things in a text book fashion): keep insulin and glucose to hand in case needed.

It's usually self-limiting. Good luck!

 

[leechilvers82]

Thanks all, just woke up, feel ok, just drained, been given antibiotics for 3 days by local doc.

Reason for concern is my gp back home had prescribed me tablets in case I was suffering righ before/on a flight but he didn't want me to take if I could see a doctor,

Gutted I haven had a chance to say Cheerio to my work colleagues will just have to come back at some point 😉

Thanks again for your replies