Tips to Avoid Food Poisoning while on Vacation
Kay Masingan
November 06, 2017
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In
my previous entry, I have been discussing briefly about the benefits of Vacation. For this entry let me share with you some of my personal tips to
avoid food poisoning while on vacation.
Drink
Bottled Water
We
are moving a lot to one place to another whenever we are on vacation. Besides
taking enough foods we are also needed to drinking plenty of water to stay
energetic and to avoid dehydrated. Nevertheless,
it better to drink bottled water (mineral water or drinking water) that we can
buy from the shop than drinking the local water supplies. Additionally, do not
simply refill your water bottled at the water refilled vendors or water
stations (if any) unless you are certain it is from clean sources.
Avoid
street foods
In few
countries such as Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines, street foods are one of
the biggest tourist’s attractions. As a tourist and also a traveler, I agreed
that street foods can be very enticing. From the food variations, interesting
food colors, creative way of foods cooking and display, friendly sellers/
vendors and not forgetting the cheap price making these kinds of foods become
very popular among the tourists and travelers. However, not everyone’s stomach
suits to street foods. Apart from the ingredients that may not familiar with
our digestion system, street foods also exposed to bacteria easily. For a
person with a very sensitive stomach, it is better to avoid eating street foods.
No
to cold/buffet foods
Whenever
you are eating in the restaurant, choose foods from the al a carte menu instead
of eating buffet foods. Buffet foods usually already getting cold and not fresh
anymore. We also no idea for how long the foods have been cooked and displayed
at the buffet section.
Bring
enough medicines supplies
Even
though you think you are fit to go for vacation do not forget to always bring enough
medicines supplies with you. You may ask your doctor or friends’ opinion on what is the
best medicines to bring with you. In my experience, normally I will bring list
of medicines such as Panadol, Panadol Extra Fast and also the Pil Chi-Kit Teck
Aun. You can always take your medicine when you are having food poisoning
symptom such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea as soon as possible to prevent
the symptom getting worse.
There
are still lots of tips to avoid food poisoning while on vacation. These four
points are merely from my points of view which I write based on my personal
experience. I warn you, food poisoning during on vacation is not a joke. I've learned from the incident when I was spending my vacation in Yogyakarta. I was running desprately looking for a toilet in the middle of busy street of Malioboro because of diarrhea. It's good to share with you that in some part of this world, public toilets are not common. If any, we are no idea where the location is. In my case, lucky that a kind hearted woman let me tu used her private restroom. If not? I leave it to your own imaginations. So, hope this post will give
benefit to all of us and don’t let food poisoning ruined our vacation.
