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Title: What a week
Post by: Vulcan on August 06, 2007, 09:10:56 PM: So last week I was in Malaysia for a vendor conference (Sonicwall). Had an awesome time.... but at a cost.

1st.... picked up campylobacter food poisoning eating some chicken at KL Int'l Airport.

So after 2 days of misery I see the quack, she pokes something called maxolon into me and gives me some tablets to take. Beauty, I stop vomiting and lose the nausea.

But, the day after I start convulsing down my right side, spasms, including my tongue which makes it difficult to breath. The spasms get so bad it looks like I'm having fits. In fact the doc on duty thought I was a psych patient because when I went back to the hospital he said I "had that psych look" about me.

Turns out me + maxonlon = bad mojo.

So they jab me with an antidote for the maxolon. Apparently it is a known side effect but not usually this bad. The jab doesn't do much, so they start arranged my transfer to the local Emergency Dept at the main hospital... 10 mins before the ambulanance arrives the antidote finally kicks in and up and about again.

Poor missus was in tears, they had me hooked up to an ECG while I was having massive spasms, she thought I was a goner.

Lesson learn't: don't eat the chicken in malaysia.
Title: What a week
Post by: storch on August 06, 2007, 10:02:40 PM: I feel for you. I'm glad you're back. the third world is always so surprising.
Title: What a week
Post by: tedrbr on August 06, 2007, 10:11:20 PM: Chicken - Malaysia - how close to bird flu outbreaks BTW?

... and are you sure it was chicken? Portuguese Wharf Rats maybe?
Title: What a week
Post by: Vulcan on August 06, 2007, 10:45:59 PM: Quote
Originally posted by tedrbr
Chicken - Malaysia - how close to bird flu outbreaks BTW?

... and are you sure it was chicken? Portuguese Wharf Rats maybe?

No bird flu there, but yeah the chicken legs were about the right size for iguana legs imho.
Title: What a week
Post by: Dago on August 06, 2007, 10:57:43 PM: It is always a thought in the back of mind when I eat overseas, but I have been lucky in recent years. Got ameobic dysentary a couple times in the middle east, but that was about the worst of it. Been to Malaysia, never had a problem.

Hope the recovery is complete.

dago
Title: What a week
Post by: rpm on August 07, 2007, 03:51:23 AM: Eating overseas is a crapshoot, literally.
Title: What a week
Post by: Jackal1 on August 07, 2007, 05:58:01 AM: DOH!
My father-in-law took us out to eat yesterday at noon.
I started getting sick within a few hours. Been up and down all night.
Miserable.
Last good case of this I got in Gallup, New Mexico , on Thanksgiving , quite a few years ago by having Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant there.
Title: What a week
Post by: Excel1 on August 07, 2007, 06:28:27 AM: Vulcan,tough break getting crook while your overseas but at least you got away from the crap local weather for a bit

And campylobacter food poisoning, had it, it's nasty. chicken from a local lunch bar was the culprit. eating chicken that you don't know whether it has been prepared and cooked properly is kin to playing russian roulette with food poisoning. I give it a miss, unless it comes out of my own oven and is almost burnt to a crisp.
Title: What a week
Post by: Maverick on August 07, 2007, 10:55:36 AM: Glad you are recovering / have recovered. I agree that eating in a strange location can be a challenge. I've had food in Mexico, Panama and Canada but the only place I got sick was from a place in California OTW to San Diego. Go figure.
Title: What a week
Post by: texasmom on August 07, 2007, 12:03:20 PM: Sorry to hear! Hope you're all better.
Title: What a week
Post by: Vulcan on August 07, 2007, 05:56:25 PM: Overall I'm feeling way better after the antidote, althought last night and today I've had a certain song stuck in my head that relates well to my current condition, Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire.... it burns burns burns.

I found the drug on wikipedia... check out the known side effects:

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Adverse effects

Plastic ampoule of metoclopramideCommon adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with metoclopramide therapy include: restlessness, drowsiness, dizziness, and/or headache. Infrequent ADRs include: extrapyramidal effects (EPSE) such as oculogyric crisis (and other acute dystonic reactions), hypertension, hypotension, hyperprolactinaemia leading to galactorrhoea, diarrhoea, constipation, and/or depression. Rare but serious ADRs associated with metoclopramide therapy include: agranulocytosis, supraventricular tachycardia, hyperaldosteronism, neuroleptic malignant syndrome and/or tardive dyskinesia.[6]

The risk of EPSEs are increased in young adults (<20 years) and children.[6] Such dystonic reactions are usually treated with benztropine or procyclidine. The risk of tardive dyskinesia and EPSE is increased with high dose therapy and with prolonged use. Tardive dyskinesias may be persistent and irreversible in some patients.[5]

:huh

I think they gave me procyclicline as the antidote.
Title: What a week
Post by: Vulcan on August 07, 2007, 05:58:46 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Excel1
Vulcan,tough break getting crook while your overseas but at least you got away from the crap local weather for a bit

The air in KL more than makes up for the weather, its like breathing gasified poo. I would literally go back to my hotel room to brush my teeth after every outing to get the taste of pollution out of my month. Guess I'm spoiled living with the best city-air in the world :)
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Post by: eskimo2 on August 07, 2007, 06:07:30 PM: I think this is how they invented AIDS.
Title: What a week
Post by: Yknurd on August 07, 2007, 06:15:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by rpm
Eating overseas is a crapshoot, literally.

I blame the Boosh Administration!
Title: What a week
Post by: Maverick on August 07, 2007, 09:32:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Yknurd
I blame the Boosh Administration!

That's RPM's line. I believe he has had it copyrighted. You are in trouble now. :confused: