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[starlagurl]

Yep. I feel bad because I had a part in it by making flippant comments...as usual...

[bangkokrandy]

Back to the original topic, if I may: I was in Pai in February of this year. After being there for two or three days, I came down with this Pai sickness. Diarrhea and a feeling of being about to vomit. After going to the local hospital to get myself fixed up, I started talking to other tourists in the town - and almost without exception, everyone else I spoke to was suffering from the same thing. As soon as I got back home to Bangkok, I made a posting on the Lonely Planet Thorntree forum to see if anybody could shed any light on the matter for me. Nobody was able to, with most people putting it down to being in a foreign environment, etc. (I have been living in Thailand for the past 13 years, so I'm not a newcomer to the local environment.)

The fact remains, however, that I - along with nearly every other foreigner that I spoke to in Pai this past February - was ill with varying degrees of diarrhea and vomiting. To this day I still don't know the cause. But there's something very strange going on there. If anybody could isolate the cause of this illness, I would be happy to hear about it. In the meantime, if you go there, pay attention to what you eat and drink to see if you might be able to find the cause when you get sick. Because if things are still like they were when I was there, you will get sick.

[wakingdream]

Back to the original topic, if I may: I was in Pai in February of this year. After being there for two or three days, I came down with this Pai sickness. Diarrhea and a feeling of being about to vomit. After going to the local hospital to get myself fixed up, I started talking to other tourists in the town - and almost without exception, everyone else I spoke to was suffering from the same thing. As soon as I got back home to Bangkok, I made a posting on the Lonely Planet Thorntree forum to see if anybody could shed any light on the matter for me. Nobody was able to, with most people putting it down to being in a foreign environment, etc. (I have been living in Thailand for the past 13 years, so I'm not a newcomer to the local environment.)

The fact remains, however, that I - along with nearly every other foreigner that I spoke to in Pai this past February - was ill with varying degrees of diarrhea and vomiting. To this day I still don't know the cause. But there's something very strange going on there. If anybody could isolate the cause of this illness, I would be happy to hear about it. In the meantime, if you go there, pay attention to what you eat and drink to see if you might be able to find the cause when you get sick. Because if things are still like they were when I was there, you will get sick.

hey, thanks for shedding some light. That's interesting. Some sort of contamination but from where.......