Traveler's Diarrhea: Gastroenteritis with a Twist

Shikha Saxena
4 min readJun 24, 2024

Viral or Bacterial Infection also called stomach flu

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Vomiting and diarrhea are common symptoms when you catch infection during travels having different food and drinks and climate change. It can be caused by many reasons. It can be due to viral or bacterial infections through stored frozen food or presence of food allergens. Due to undercooked food during flights. Contamination of food by parasites as Giardia. Mixture of drinks and daily consumed medicines. Reasons might be many but one need to aware to come out of it in tine to avoid dangerous unrecoverable dehydration. In Traveler’s Diarrhea: Gastroenteritis with a Twist we will decode some facts and find solutions to problem in hand!

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Causes for Traveler's Diarrhea

Traveler's diarrhea can be dangerous especially in infants, kids and elderly travelers. Viral gastroenteritis or stomach flu can happen due to contaminated food or medical conditions.

The primary cause of traveler’s diarrhea is ingestion of food or water contaminated with pathogens such as following:

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Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/