Supercalifragilistic Cryptoporidiosis

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What is cryptosporidiosis?

Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrheal disease caused by microscopic parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium.
Once an animal or person is infected, the parasite lives in the
intestine and passes in the stool. The parasite is protected by an
outer shell that allows it to survive outside the body for long periods
of time and makes it very resistant to chlorine- based disinfectants.
Both the disease and the parasite are commonly known as "crypto."

What are the symptoms of cryptosporidiosis?

The most common symptom of cryptosporidiosis is watery diarrhea. Other symptoms include:

• Dehydration
• Weight loss
• Stomach cramps or pain
• Fever
• Nausea
• Vomiting

Some people with crypto will have no symptoms at all. While the small intestine is the site most commonly affected , Cryptosporidium infections could possibly affect other areas of the digestive or the respiratory tract .

From the CDC web page.

Symptoms last 1 to 2 weeks. I noticed I felt a little off this morning. I'm still having bouts of Oh Jeez I Have To Go To The Toilet This Instant so the crypto is sending me through the feel good/feel crap cycle, the little buggers. Hopefully iy'll be out of my system by Christmas.

Comments

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

we told you and told you and TOLD you ... don't drink the water in Sydney.

but did you listen? of course you didn't.

seriously, I hope you feel better soon. (hug)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

But... I didn't! I only drank Dubbo water.

...

ah.

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck. :(

Hope you feel better soon, buddy!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

:(!!

Get well, soon. It could always be worse, you could always have drunk the stuff over *here*.....

(Cue: Tom Lehrer)

Time was when an American about to go abroad would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. But times have changed and now a foreigner coming to this country might be offered the following advice.




If you visit American city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air.

Pollution, pollution,
They got smog and sewage and mud.
Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud.

See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergeons.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they don't last long if they try.

Pollution, pollution,
You can use the latest toothpaste,
And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.

Just go out for a breath of air,
And you'll be ready for Medicare.
The city streets are really quite a thrill.
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will!

Pollution, pollution,
Wear a gas mask and a veil.
Then you can breathe, long as you don't inhale.

Lots of things there that you can drink,
But stay away from the kitchen sink.
The breakfast garbage that you throw in to the Bay,
They drink at lunch in San Jose.

So go to the city, see the crazy people there.
Like lambs to the slaughter,
They're drinking the water
And breathing (cough) the air!

-Pollution/Tom Lehrer

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[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Be sure to keep yourself hydrated. That's the biggest danger with crypto.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I didn't drink anything that didn't come from a bottle. There's a spate of crypto infections in town at the moment, so the good news is I'm not alone.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Oooon the throoone 'til Chriiistmass...

[frith]

Ah, epizootic protozoans -- the gift that keeps on giving... just in time for Christmas! What luck! ^_^ Rest up and keep hydrated!

(Think Bing Crosby)

On the throne 'til Christmas;
You can count on me.
Please leave rolls of fresh tissue,
And go elsewhere to pee.

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the white throne gleams,
Sipping salty fluids
And leaking from my seams....

On the throne 'til Christmas;
You'll be there by me.
We won't be blue, we share the flu,
And soon we will be three.

If folks ask about me
Tell them I'm at home.
I'll be there 'til Christmas
With hitchhikers from Rome...

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

My goodness, now what have you gotten yourself into? You have some of the most interesting, funniest, clever posts on the LJ. Although this one has turned around and bit you in the ----. Literally. ha, ha. Seriously though, please take good care of yourself. You are just too wanted and entertaining (in the best sense of the word) to disappear from the LJ for a lengthy healing process. Please take really really good care of yourself, O.K.?

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... sorry to hear about the bug in the system.

Feel better soon *HUGS*

[i-harobed.livejournal.com]

I have zero advice, questions or comments other than ... Oh, man, sorry. I feel for you.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, run the race to prove it. It's absolutely without a doubt no fun at all. Hope you feel better soon.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

That would have to be the least most pleasent way to spend a weekend ever.

[annvole.livejournal.com]

Interesting coincidence: I am half way around the world from both your vaction locations and your home location and yet I have had a bout of those "sprints" you mentioned. Sympathy illness?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I hope it's just sympathy. I wouldn't wish crypto on anyone.