Re: [at-l] Water, Flagyl

["Charles W. Davidson" <wb4pan@mindspring.com>]

David,

	Actually I suspected a local cafeteria that is known to send patrons
trotting! Still I wanted to relate my experience to the group. Because,
water purification or not, is often one topic of personal choice here. I
really thought I would be able to report something more exact. I expect
I will still drink the water. Although the ease of use and light weight
of the Safe Water inline filter will lesson the number of times i drink
directly from the  back county source.


chase   ps "Napster" rules

David wrote:
> 
> Flagyl works and so does what we affectionately called para-cork-it ...
> 
> What makes you think you picked it up from water on the trail?
> 
> Statistically speaking, most people get intestinal bugs from restaurants ...
> 
> followed if I remember right from home cooked meals ...
> 
> meat tends to be a prime suspect and so does fruit and salad ... and water rarely ...
> 
> to replace intestinal zoo:  the flagyl shouldn't cause too much trouble to the good flora and fauna in the gut ... but antibiotics knock em all out ... homade yogurt is the best way I've found to quickly replace the intestinal zoo ... take as much milk as you want yogurt and put it in a bowl, then drop some plain dannon yogurt in it and leave it on top of the frig covered with a cloth for a day or two ... then eat over fruit, plain, or blended with mangos for a great drink ...
> 
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> On 8/14/00 at 2:47 PM Charles W. Davidson wrote:
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> >Hi Gang,
> >
> >       I have almost finished takeing a dose of Flagyl, the usual cure for
> >water borne parasites. After 27 years of drinking the water from creeks
> >and springs along the way from GA to ME, but mostly just hiking in VA. I
> >thought I had finanaly sucumbed to some bad water.
> >       My diarhea lasted about 16 days, gettting better at times and worse at
> >others. I was still able to work back to back 62 hour weeks. I felt a
> >tiny bit weak but kept shoveling the food in,,, and out. This didn't
> >seem like the Giardia I have seen in others manifesting itself
> >violently!
> >       So I went to the doctor. They did a CVC blood test, nothing found. The
> >Doc prescribed Flagyl to be takenen after I gave a stool sample.  The
> >results of my stool sample came back today with nothing found?
> >       For those of you who really are and those that pretend to be doctors on
> >the internet, what sort of meanies do they look for in a stool sample.
> >My problem cleared up after a couple of days medicaton. I am almost
> >finsihed with my prescription.
> >       Now I worry about haveing my system cleaned out of all those good
> >things that have protected me over the years and let me drink the water.
> >I am using an inline filter now though. By the way I had drank water
> >from spring near Campbell shelter at Catawb area. The area suspected of
> >Norwalk Virus infections with flu like symptoms I think.
> >
> >chase AT99, GG99, ALT2000, FlagyL2000, LT hopeful for 2000
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> David Addleton
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