Anyone get severe food poisoning in SL/Somalia?

[Amirah]

How often did you get sick your first time there? And what city where you in? What were your symptoms if any? Any local remedies you used to recover? Things to stay away from? Etc

 

[4head]

Yes, got sick for a week but it was worth it!!

Loved somali food, it was great.

I've lost my fobbish stomach, couldn't eat like the locals


Any remedies? Toilet papers and a tent near the toilets.

 

[Apollo]

I don't think I experienced real food poisoning, but I did get loose stool from some of their food.

However, I would advise taking some gastric acid inhibitors with you just in case, don't trust the medicine over there (expired Indian stuff).

 

[Never Broke Again]

Yes, got sick for a week but it was worth it!!

Loved somali food, it was great.

I've lost my fobbish stomach, couldn't eat like the locals


Any remedies? Toilet papers and a tent near the toilets.

Do you feel sick because of the environmental change?

 

[Periplus]

I get sick whenever I go back to Africa, the last time I went was horrible.

I will spare the absolute horror stories but I can tell you that my ayeeyo called a random doctor to meet me outside a random hotel in Galkacyo and he gave me these unmarked pills to take once a day to solve my issues.

Within three days, I was back to normal.

 

[Based]

tbh i would rather starve

Quirky diaspora kid

 

[Boqorada]

Oh yeah. It was unnatural. I never want to experience that ever again in my life.

 

[Apollo]

It is good for your immune system to get some shocks. It's not that bad.

Just take some acid blockers and probiotics.

 

[trucel]

k fobs are so damn annoying

You can eat those spiders u got in ur town

 

[4head]

Do you feel sick because of the environmental change?

Yes, water wasn't clean enough for my fragilized stomach (limestone water)

 

[akaA2]

Bunch of softies. Never experienced alxamdulilah.
MashAllah dhaha

 

[Basra]

I don't think I experienced real food poisoning, but I did get loose stool from some of their food.

However, I would advise taking some gastric acid inhibitors with you just in case, don't trust the medicine over there (expired Indian stuff).

lose stool ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

[Aibolsun]

It’s dirty water. It happened to me when I went to Mogadishu

 

[Cerberus]

How often did you get sick your first time there? And what city where you in? What were your symptoms if any? Any local remedies you used to recover? Things to stay away from? Etc

In Minneapolis I did. Indian Restaurant made me hit the toilet hard non-stop. And then a Chinese restaurant once gave me some virus worse than Covid back in 2013 and i was sick for days. When I woke up from the sickness on my 5th day of being sick and after taking SmartWater, my skin was glowing and body was fit and I felt like a youth all over again, like I felt like I was 13 and healthy or something.

 

[heavyrealm]

Got sick and went to some doctor in gaalkacyo in outskirts of town. Gave me a capsule and I was better

 

[Periplus]

Got sick and went to some doctor in gaalkacyo in outskirts of town. Gave me a capsule and I was better

Bro, it might have been the same random doctor looool.

 

[Abdisamad]

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[heavyrealm]

Bro, it might have been the same random doctor looool.

That might be the cure for Covid for all we know

 

[TekNiKo]

I also get sick for a week everytime I arrive the reason why is our food in The West is heavily GMOed so your not used to the natural foods of Somalia. Your body is simply detoxxing itself from all the garbage chemically induced crap we eat here. Its a good thing

 

[Grigori Rasputin]

How often did you get sick your first time there? And what city where you in? What were your symptoms if any? Any local remedies you used to recover? Things to stay away from? Etc

I just got back you know.

The first 10 days your stool will be watery. An indication of your stomach being disturbed by Africa. Also the fact that you’ve been eating artificially made processed food.

My biggest concern was diarrhea. I was very aware of the restaurants I was eating from. The high-end restaurants in the city of Hargeisa would cost you an arm and a leg. Their food would be atrocious. Thanks to a friend from Seattle I was introduced to a hole in the wall type of restaurant where I ate my lunch from for close to 2 months. I did not get sick one time from eating there. Their food was just ok but I had no choice. I would get a huge waslad (big meat portion) with either Bariis or Macaroni and a fresh juice (I preferred Papaya) for $7. I would never finish that food for some reason. I would only eat just enough. Their food just doesn’t taste correct. However, it is best to have home made food. The ladies at home know how to cook well. Eating from home cuts off the chance of you getting diarrhea. So I’d suggest you have a maid to cook for you at home. I was staying at a hotel and I was forced to eat out.
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