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I didn't know you'd been in Bolivia. Now you all have Giardia and a 10% chance of typhoid fever.

That’s the least harmful of the diseases that Christine has

Quote of the night has to be Purps to LT ‘You lie round eye’ that had me in Norm like guffaws.

Giardia "output" has a really distinctive smell.

See also: cryptospiridium and pseudomonas.

Whether you think it's a neat diagnostic trick to be able to discern from the smell which particular lurgi is responsible for a bedpan full of steaming diarrhoea - or stomach-turningly horrible - is quite a divisive issue.

I'm quite proud of the ability.

We heard you do the tongue tip test as well

Giardia is sort of toothpaste texture, and yes, it has an unmistakeable smell. Mate of mine had it so bad, he was shitting almost undigested foot. You could see the pasta and toothmarks on the meat. In fairness, he was sleeping at 4800m and working at 5100m. I sent him to La Paz where he was given several courses of flagyl before he was clean. Then it took 3 months for his biome to reconstruct.

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:05 pm Giardia "output" has a really distinctive smell.
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I'm quite proud of the ability.

It's a party trick of occasional usefulness. Giardia also produces alarming burps that smell of rotten eggs....

I like the fact that no-one bothered to enquire after my health post-Yellow Death but I cut my hand on a bed spring and suddenly it’s a hot topic for conversation and ‘medical’ examination. Priorities much?

Besides, that Zoo keeper distraction would totes have worked!

A: You lived. We didn't need to ask. We're not exactly Quincy M.E. but seriously, you're driving a boat and whatnot, so we just proceeded on the assumption that you didn't die.

B: You have chosen an (I hesitate to dignify it by using this word) "explanation" for your hand injury which would be rejected as beyond credibility by Father Dougal McGuire.

Regardless of whether the wound was small, or just far away.