Contaminated Food.

[Khandro]

Both of us awoke with a bad attack of the 'trots' today, can't think what might have caused it. Lying abed this afternoon I remembered a tv report I saw a couple of months ago showing illegal immigrants in southern Spain being employed to pick fruit and veg, (not far from slave labour). They lived in appalling squalor with no toilet facilities, they have a bad enough name to start with and I don't want to worsen it, but could there be a link?

[Tilly2]

That's why you should always was your fruit and veg. What have you been eating?

[Khandro]

Tilly; Yesterday, everything washed and cooked properly, though we always have a salad in which everything is washed, BUT, is rinsing things in cold water really enough? There seems little else you can do.

[Tilly2]

Did you have any rice in the last few days?

[woofgang]

Could be a bug picked up from a door handle, public loo, anything that you and the great unwashed public both touch...could be airborn as well.

If you really want to, you can use a solution of Milton to wash your salad.
http://www.miltonbaby.com.au/hygiene-tips/top-tips/

[Khandro]

Revisiting this topic with an update which may be of interest. My wife in conversation with a pharmacist about this attack mentioned that one thing we had both eaten was quite a lot of melon on the previous day, she (the pharmacist) told her that it was a known fact that melon could produce such fierce attacks like this, checking further I find it's because watermelon contains large amounts of water, and is high in fructose which is digested by the liver and this puts a lot of strain on it. If your liver can't handle the amount of fructose it is getting, then you will end up with too much digestive juice in your digestive system. The extra liquid will push out whatever is in your system "like a garden hose" - a pretty good description!

Has anyone experienced this, and is Sqad around to comment please?