Recs for prevention/cure travel tummy troubles

the boy & i are going on a week holiday - our first in 4 1/2 years - to egypt.  what meds should i bring to ward off any stomach upsets?  rehydration sachets?  rennies?

Bring Immodium, those sachets for rehydration (Pediasure??) Calpol, medised...

Have a great time!

Definately Immodium and I think Boots now sells Pepto-bismol which works really well for just about any tummy trouble.

Pepto is behind the counter and available at all pharmacists. But they'll ask you if you know how to take it.

When we went to India, we got Rx pills to take for Delhi Belly. Do they not do the same for Egypt?

gotta love those trained cashiers at boots.

i'm leaving tomorrow- no time for Rx.

cheers.

I also use SeaBands for motion sickness.  I get queasy when I'm on the train too long.

Yeah, I'd recommend Immodium/Pepto Bismol, Dioraltye, Indigestion tablets and just some general Ibuprofen/Paracetamol or cold products just in case too (I was sick in the US last week - viral infection - and needed almost all of these things... only problem was, I had none of them in my apartment! ).

gotta love those trained cashiers at boots.

i'm leaving tomorrow- no time for Rx.

cheers.

I'm one of those trained cashiers at Boots (or I will be one again starting next week, until I figure out what to do with my life now)... some of the questions we have to ask are a bit stupid though .

Definately Immodium and I think Boots now sells Pepto-bismol which works really well for just about any tummy trouble.

I'm pretty sure Boots has been selling Pepto-Bismol for several years (at least since 2001, when I started working behind the counter)... introduced in the UK in 1979, apparently (according to their website!) .

Pepto is behind the counter and available at all pharmacists. But they'll ask you if you know how to take it.

When we went to India, we got Rx pills to take for Delhi Belly. Do they not do the same for Egypt?

Is there a special way to take pepto?

Is there a special way to take pepto?

Not really - the cashiers just want to make sure you know how often to take it and when not to take it (i.e. not if you're under 16, if you're taking other certain medications etc.) - same as most other 'behind the counter' medicines.

You'd be surprised at the number of people who buy stuff and take it when they're not supposed to...last year I served one guy who was taking double the recommended dosage of cold medication (i.e. he was taking cold tablets and drinking extra strength Lemsip at the same time... they both included the same ingredients) - which meant an overdose of paracetamol and also of decongestant - and he didn't even realise it.

I thought maybe I was doing it wrong, all those years of drinking the pink stuff out of the bottle. I spent 3 months of my pregnancy drinking that aniseed crap out of the bottle...yucky.