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[Closed] Drank spring water from half way up Jacobs ladder now feeling ill 🙁

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ran out of water yesterday so got some from the spring next to that house on the other side of jacobs ladder as if you're going up the hill to go down it, now feeling ill, what could i have got 🙁


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:29 pm
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my p!ss 😉

Hope you feel better soon


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:30 pm
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Probably bovine TB 😉


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:32 pm
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Hi
Could be any number of things depending on incubation, symptoms etc
eg cryptosporidia, salmonella, campylobacter etc etc.
If you feel unwell go to see your GP with a stool sample and they will investigate further.
Cheers
Steve


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:33 pm
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What David Walliams has got?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:33 pm
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A fear of doctors? An inability to describe symptoms when asking for advice? Broken Shift keys?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:33 pm
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Never drink any natural water in the UK. There is always a dead sheep in the stream higher up.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:34 pm
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I keep pukeing and stomach feels like ive eaten a brick. Used to do it in Cornwall all the time no problems.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:35 pm
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[i]There is always a dead sheep in the stream higher up[/i]

Next time it could be a childs face.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:35 pm
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You need early medical intervention. Antidote not anecdote.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:37 pm
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AIDS


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:37 pm
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😀 @ Cougar


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:41 pm
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Drinking from streams without using a puritab or similar? I expect you have a range of parasites multiplying rapidly in your body. I wouldn't worry about it.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:42 pm
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I expect you have a range of parasites multiplying rapidly in your body.

Hah! bugs ****, in your body!


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:43 pm
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Drinking from streams without using a puritab or similar?

Oh! Just reread the thread - I'd assumed that you had indeed used a puritab or similar. 😯


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:45 pm
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spring next to that house on the other side of jacobs ladder as if you're going up the hill to go down it,

That's not half way up is it - more like in the valley bottom.

Anyway, what did your doctor say?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:47 pm
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Oh lordy! Sounds to me like you could have fallen victim of the infamous Hora Trail Poo.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:50 pm
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drank from mountain streams in Scotland for many years and never once had the trots.

i know this is largely irrelevant but so is asking for medical diagnosis on a bike forum, so we're all square i think.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 12:54 pm
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so we're all square i think.

Not me Daddio!


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:00 pm
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i know this is largely irrelevant but so is asking for medical diagnosis on a bike forum, so we're all square i think

Is it square to be irrelevant? Ay Carrera!

OP – as ^^^^^. Medication not hesitation.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:01 pm
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Giardiasis


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:02 pm
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Expect to be urinating blood, excruciating stomach pains, embarrassing doctors visits, and finally an unpleasant bladder examination. Guess where the camera goes?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:04 pm
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Rabies.

Scabies.

And possibly, Gout.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:05 pm
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Gout is a given. All those (im)purines


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:09 pm
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Could be farm/chemical run-off thats entered the water higher up.

It'd be very rare that it'll be a sheep further up.

Anyone seen that petrol/diesel-like residue on surface/puddle water up in the Peaks- what is that?


 
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In the OP's defence, I've drunk from streams for years with no puritabs (yeuchhhh), as long as it's flowing the odd's of getting a bug are minimal and the odds of anything worse requiring medical treatment minute.

Seem's you were just unlucky, get to the Doc's.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:11 pm
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All those imp urines

Why are small mythical creatures pissing in spring water?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:12 pm
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@ GrahamS

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Help yourself!


 
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Also have drunk from streams around the UK for years without puritabs or a problem - think you have to be fairly unlucky.

The one time I did have a problem I didn't drink anything but didn't realise that upstream of the river I was swimming across to go surfing was a sewage plant which, when it rained heavily, I paraphrase "open storage tanks to purge the extra liquids to ensure the tanks are not over-filled, this can include raw sewage". Nice. A days vomiting and squits followed by a helicobacter infestation and 3 weeks on 3.5[b]g[/b] of antibiotics per day and I'm fine 🙂 Still drink from streams.


 
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had to drink stream water round penmachno (the high traverse section) the stuff was bloody horrible, no ill effects, just tasted awful. 🙁


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:22 pm
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Just below the natural campsite area klunk?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:25 pm
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more a sheep based bouquet 😳 😉


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:33 pm
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so we're all square i think.
Not me Daddio!

pmsl


 
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Campylobacter is most likely from sheep sh!t. Weils disease would be my second guess, from rat urine. 😯 You're better off being thirsty than having them diseases.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:55 pm
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it tasted really peaty. will buy some puratabs i think, my tummy hurts 🙁


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 1:56 pm
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[i]it tasted really peaty[/i]

Peaty, earlier;

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bad news you could have damaged your liver even worse you may not wake up in the morning
never drink water unless its from a trusted source
look at david williams went for a little swim in the thames and has been very unwell since


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:04 pm
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Liver fluke I expect, or it could be a tapeworm...it'll grow to 29feet long in your intestines...that's what my biology teacher used to tell us.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:10 pm
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it tasted really peaty. will buy some puratabs i think, my tummy hurts

Good plan. 2 tablets 3 times a day after meals for 1 week.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:11 pm
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Never drink any natural water in the UK. There is always a dead sheep in the stream higher up.

Highland water is perfectly safe. Many of us drink it whenever we are in the hills and many houses have untreated highland water supplies.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:15 pm
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Me too TJ. Always from a fast bit though, preferably a waterfall.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:17 pm
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Pansies. We drink from the canals around here


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:22 pm
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Pansies.

We drink from the anals around here


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:23 pm
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Happy to be a pansy in these circumstances.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 5:25 pm
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Posted : 03/10/2011 6:05 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:12 pm
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I am disappointed that hora had a poo at Noe Stool. I always thought he walked on the right side of the law.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:32 pm
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Why do people always say "Raw Sewage". Does that mean you can get cooked sewage? With wild mushrooms and a red wine jus perhaps?


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:37 pm
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A bottle of coke is always good for killing any nasty bacteria you might have drunk


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:42 pm
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I am disappointed that hora had a poo at Noe Stool. I always thought he walked on the right side of the law.

we were in a big group and he wanted privacy.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:43 pm
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Pook you need a much bigger map than that.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:47 pm
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Liver fluke I expect, or it could be a tapeworm...it'll grow to 29feet long in your intestines...

Oh god, even the intestinal parasites have fallen for the 29er nonsense?!


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 6:56 pm
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feeling better now, luckily.... hope its not like the eye of the storm.. lesson learnt


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 7:08 pm
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That'll be the brief remission period before total renal failure 😉


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 7:42 pm
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I like that fact that hora has had a poo on 'Brown Knoll'.

😀 😯


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 7:48 pm
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Didn't some of Blu-tone's overspill land over that way


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 7:49 pm
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I like that fact that hora has had a poo on 'Brown Knoll'.

i was tempted to put him on Pym Chair too. Noe Stool was a given. 😉


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 7:58 pm
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I like that fact that hora has had a poo on 'Brown Knoll'.

Hora's poo [b]is[/b] Brown Knoll!


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 10:13 pm
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Not kidding but I did see a dead sheep in a stream when I descended it last weekend.

Sorry for slagging you & your right-wing small minded views off, I feel bad now you'll probably die a painful premature death.

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Highland water is perfectly safe. Many of us drink it whenever we are in the hills and many houses have untreated highland water supplies.

Even if there's dead livestock/my turd etc upstream?

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Me too TJ. Always from a fast bit though, preferably a waterfall.

Erm...it's the same water fella, no matter how fast it's going 🙄


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 10:18 pm
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I've been known to fill my bottles/bladder up from springs in the past.
Sometimes you feel a bit funny and get the runs, sometimes you're fine.
The times you get the runs, will make you stronger for next time.

I'm still alive. Although I am quite skinny. Maybe I gots the liver fluke or tapeworm.

No no, that's down to me eating properly and exercising.


 
Posted : 03/10/2011 10:37 pm
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Sorry for slagging you & your right-wing small minded views off, I feel bad now you'll probably die a painful premature death.

so not thinking in the same way as you do makes me narrow minded? but dont worry im fine now. Im a libertarian any way not a right wing nut.


 
Posted : 04/10/2011 10:47 am
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Erm...it's the same water fella, no matter how fast it's going

Except, because it's flowing, it's not stagnant. Which as I'm sure you know is a better incubator for bacteria and parasites than flowing water is. 🙄 🙄


 
Posted : 04/10/2011 11:42 am
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Highland water is perfectly safe. Many of us drink it whenever we are in the hills

Yes, but you deep-fry it first - kills the bacteria.


 
Posted : 04/10/2011 11:46 am

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