[at-l] giardia

[orangebug74@yahoo.com (Orange Bug)]

Actually, your story is pretty classic for community acquired giardia.
The gestation period is about 3 weeks, hence I think whatever was going
around town was already in you before your hike began. Testing for
giardia is not always successful, and many would consider presumptive
treatment just from the history you provided. You had persistant
diarrhea and loss of appetite, both very good reasons to interrupt a
hiking schedule. 

Bill...

--- EJ Baker <itinerant_ej@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...So the moral is:  even if you think it's
> something still TEST right away--would have saved me a week off trail
> and 2 more uncomfortable ones on.  I had hoped to walk out whatever
> it was and couldn't--though I normally can walk out anything--so that
> was a lesson to me as well, though I think I got it because I was so
> stressed out and my immune system was down (usually I can drink
> anything with little trouble).  And I'm still not sure if I started
> with a stomach bug and picked up the giardia because I was already
> sick--since I was sick from the first day in and was still drinking
> tap water at the time.
>

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