medication

"Dusty Furtile Morrocan" wrote in
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On the particular moment of Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:09:01 GMT in relation
to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, "Alan"
put forth:

can anyone recomend a really good powder or liquid cure for constipation
that can be purchased in UK as we are going to Morocco and i would like to
be on the safe side and pack some in the bag just in case, and i suppose
likewise for diarhea

If tablets or capsules are ok, try Imodium. It's available anywhere,
and works well.

Not for constipation. However, IME that is the less likely problem in
Morocco.

Colin Bignell

My former works doctor was a specialist in tropical medicine. His
opinion
was
that Immodium should only be available on prescription.
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Martin

Well, then, since you feel so strongly about it, what would you
substitute?

Ask a doctor.
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Martin

That's what we call a cop out.

On the particular moment of Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:17:27 +0100 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Martin
put forth:

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:21:55 +0100, Dusty Furtile Morrocan
wrote:

On the particular moment of Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:09:01 GMT in relation
to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, "Alan"
put forth:

can anyone recomend a really good powder or liquid cure for constipation
that can be purchased in UK as we are going to Morocco and i would like to
be on the safe side and pack some in the bag just in case, and i suppose
likewise for diarhea

If tablets or capsules are ok, try Imodium. It's available anywhere,
and works well.

As I have posted before Immodium can kill you. If you want medical advice ask a
doctor.

Just read the instructions on the packet if you don't wan't to die.
It's hardly a drug suited to euthanasia.
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On the particular moment of Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:22:44 +0100 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Martin
put forth:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:18:57 -0600, "Pat" wrote:

That's what we call a cop out.

It's what we call common sense.

Note: That it was my works doctor who felt so strongly.

Then he was being irrational.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immodium

If he feels so strongly, he should address the consensus.
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On the particular moment of Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:56:52 +0100 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Keith
Anderson put forth:

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:11:37 +0100, Martin wrote:


My former works doctor was a specialist in tropical medicine. His opinion was
that Immodium should only be available on prescription.

Took immodium on prescription for a severe dose of "the runs" after
consulting the doc.

The stuff caused a blockage of my intestinal tract and said blockage
had to be removed via an endoscope in hospital. Felt as if I was
having a heart attack, and the ambulance people thought so too and
dosed me with morphine and Gawd knows what. Ended up in intensive care
for a night.

Immodium can be nasty stuff.

Apparently consulting the doctor didn't help matters. Thanks for not
giving us too many gory details about the process.
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Ask a doctor.

That's what we call a cop out.

It's what we call common sense.

Note: That it was my works doctor who felt so strongly.
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Martin

Don't you realize that we HAVE asked doctors and they tell us to get some
immodium? You come along and trash immondium and then smugly retreat behind
your "ask a doctor" nonsense which does nobody any good.

Pat in TX

The worst diarrhoea I've ever had (in Sinop, one of the most developed
cities in Turkey and not somewhere you'd expect such a thing to happen)
was dealt with by a very knowledgeable pharmacist who also provided a
course of probiotics to continue for a bit longer than the antibiotics.
I'm not too sure what the mechanism of action of these is, but they're
recognized in the British Pharmacopeia as well.
The Dutch have just killed a couple of dozen patients in a trial of
injecting probiotics into patients with pancreas problems. Imagine the
publicity if this had happened in NHS hospitals.

Injecting probiotics is *weird*. It has no bearing on their effectiveness
taken the usual way.

If "pancreas problems' means acute pancreatitis, the mortality rate
with existing treatments is so high that almost any experiment could
be justified.

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