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Originally Posted by nono1973
Thank you for the suggestion. Since a medicine is suggested,may i ask which version should i buy to add to my Batam "1st Aid Kit" ?
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With my advice, I know I risked to raise a flame between the fans of the traditional Chinese medicine against those who trust only the "Western" medicine (which actually is not just "Western", but is a medicine based on scientific experiments, therefore used in Japan as like in California).
However, since you ask me, I wish to develop further:
- Your Chinese drug is a medicine based on herbs, and therefore might be effective too (I don't know, I never tried it, but you did, so you know if it worked well enough to save your day when you had such problems or not). Herbs do contain effective substances.
- I recommended Loperamide because it's the standard substance used to stop diarrohea (but read the warnings: don't use it for many days without going to a doctor, as it could hide the symptoms of a severe disease without curing it). The posology is 2x2mg capsules at first occurrence, then 1 more every time you go to... Don't pass maximum limits recommended in instructions. Loperamide is one of the few *standard* drugs that any traveler should bring with him when traveling overseas, exposed to such problems due to excess of food or food prepared in poor hygiene conditions. Trust me (or better trust your doctor, just ask him): it's effective and safe (at least when one does not have serious problems of infection, which must be treated with antibiotics after doctor counseling).
- About your question, Loperamide is the substance, and any REPUTABLE pharmaceutic industry can produce it and sell it. You can buy a cheaper product of any industry, as long as you TRUST it and you know it's reputable. There is not a better or a worse Loperamide (or any other pharmaceutic substance, including Sildenafil, since we are on SB) depending on the pharmaceutic industry which produces it. Instead, there is a REAL or a COUNTERFEITED (or even expired, or damaged due to wrong storage) product.
Therefore, buy anyone, but buy it exclusively from a pharmacy that you trust.
I hope all this helps.
PS: by the way, I had some intestine problems (not real diarrohea but almost) several times in KL, after eating spicy seafood in markets or even Jalan Alor (not really the best, if we look at quality), but NEVER in Batam, where I eat seafood every day in Windsor, street stalls in front of Nagoya Hill, restaurants in malls, etc and I drink tap water not on purpose or willingly, but as ice in the many cocktails and drinks I drink in pubs at night. Yes, I understand it is better to avoid to drink tap water, at least for its taste, but I seriously doubt that ice is always made with mineral water from bottles or big containers.