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Apologies for the double posting, but I forgot the header first time - must be the humidity here in Newcastle! In November I'm off on a trip to Nepal - partly hotels but mainly walking/camping. I know from others' past experience that amoebic dysentery is a problem so I wondered what people thought of this advice culled from a Web site on travel in India? "It is still possible to get amoebic dysentary in India, so recognize the symptoms. For those unfamiliar with this yucky affliction, it's different from plain old diarrhoea; usually, there is blood involved and no fever (if fever is present, it's bacillic dysentary and will either go away by itself or can be treated with antibiotics). If left untreated, it can get very nasty. Treatment is easy but not pleasant: go to a drugstore (there in India, or in other Asian countries) and ask for metradiazenole (sic?), often known as Flagyl or Flagyl-forte. You don't need a prescription for just about anything in most of Asia. Get ten days worth (40 tablets) and eat them after eating because they're very hard on the stomach. Drink NO alcohol, or you'll throw up. If your urine turns brown, don't worry. That's apparently a side-effect of the drug. " Any other advice on health risks, particularly from anyone who's been there/suffered from that/survived to tell the tale, would be welcome! Bob Sugden __________________________________________________________ R C Sugden Sowerby Unit for Primary Health Care Informatics 21 Claremont Place University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA UK Email: [log in to unmask] Fax: 0 191 222 8788 International +44 191 222 8788 Tel: 0 191 222 8971 International +44 191 222 8971 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%