Thursday, May 09, 2013 1:07 AM

Cambodia is a beautiful place, isn't it?

Traveller's Diarrhea.
One of the "highlights" of the trip had to be how everyone came down with travellers' diarrhea.

For the uninitiated, travellers' diarrhea usually affects people travelling from resource-rich to resource-poor regions of the world. It can be accompanied by fever, nausea, vomitting, abdominal pain or cramps, or blood in stool. They are usually caused by bacteria, but can also be due to viruses or parasitic organisms found in food and water. (Uptodate.com)

Well, we tried to avoid this as much as we could by not buying meat from the Prey Veng market (if you can recall this). We only bought staples such as rice, vegetables, and fruits from the market for our self-cooked meals, and we figured we would be fine.

I think we made the mistake when it came to washing our utensils with our tap water hahaha.
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Labels: cambodia, dispense-a-dream, prey veng, travel, travelers' diarrhea