An Australian couple say a plate of pad thai in Phuket has ruined their lives for more than a year due to contracting a parasite.
Stacey Barnes, 32, and Ryan Prigg, 39, claim they became feverish after the meal and decided to return to their home in Perth, where symptoms continued to worsen and their health deteriorated. Stacey: “Some days I suddenly became extremely bloated after eating something small, it felt like my stomach was going to explode. In addition, we got cold sores all over our face and sores in our mouth.” It is said that her memory was also affected and she lived like a zombie for a long time.
The couple complains to the Australian media.
After examination, the couple tested positive for the intestinal parasite 'Dientamoeba fragilis' and only recovered after blood transfusions, courses of antibiotics, probiotics and vitamin supplements.
According to an Australian doctor, the parasite is present in 25% of healthy adults and there is no scientific evidence that the intestinal parasite has made people so ill. Also, there is no convincing evidence that the symptoms of the disease developed after or during their visit to the Phuket Food Court and eating pad thai. However, the couple is convinced that the Thai meal is to blame for their health problems. Ryan says: "I will never go to Asian countries again and we want other people to be aware that this can happen."
Source: Bangkok Post
It could be, I was at a very clean food court in Bangkok, I went to the toilet there, and there was also one of the cooks there at the time, who came out of the toilet and did not wash his hands, and went straight out.
How can you get dienamoeba fragilis?
The parasite is in the stool of someone who is infected. Someone's stool is then contagious.
Someone who has the parasite can infect others through their hands. After a visit to the toilet, the parasite can be on, for example, the toilet seat, the flush button, the tap or the door handle. This allows the parasite to enter the mouth through the hands. The parasite can also end up on toys, cutlery, crockery and food via the hands.
but most of those who carry the infection are not sick at all!
Very suggestive title because there is no demonstrable evidence that the Pad Thai was the cause of the parasite they contracted.
That's why it's between quotes, that's editorial customary. The punctuation marks indicate that the judgment in question is not the responsibility of the editors.
Thanks. That was unknown to me.
Victor, I believe this immediately, I myself, when I was first here, got food poisoning a few times from eating street food. Washing cutlery in klong water, ice blocks being dragged through the mud to a stall, etc. Have seen a lot of that. Bon appetit but didn't see me.
Strange that they suddenly put this in the news 2 years later. Besides, what proof do they have?
Meanwhile, Phuket and Thailand has been dragged through the mud by 2 publicity horny individuals who may be after a free trip as compensation from TAT.
I have lived in Thailand for more than 13 years and previously came to Thailand for several years and in all that time I have been ill once, so no more or less than in Europe. Food poisoning can be picked up anywhere. But this message is sent to the world without tangible evidence and this 1 years later, sad that this is being blown up by the press.
This can of course happen anywhere in the world where there are often very high temperatures, and people do not pay attention to the correct cooling and hygienic handling of the product.
Although I may have always been lucky when eating street food, I am surprised how some often present their products raw for hours, unrefrigerated.
You also occasionally see sellers who, because they have heard something about hygiene in the distance, wear neat and tidy rubber gloves.
Only wearing this makes little sense, if you also receive the money with those same gloves, which has previously passed through thousands of hands.
You also see all too often that the plastic plates and cutlery are washed in a tub, the water of which has taken on a certain color, because the water has not been changed for the last hour out of convenience.
In short, it may not be typical Thai, but every time we wait and see whether things go well, just like last time.
Well, if you came to Germany, there would be a bowl of German frikandellen (meatballs) on the tick. Never got sick. If meat is dried or well cooked. Is the risk not that great? They used to not have refrigerators either. The half cows and pig just hung out in the store to die.
Despite that, it grew up. Never got sick in Thailand, sometimes in the Netherlands.
Dear Theiweert, Those German Frikandellen have of course already been processed and fried, if this were not the case no German would buy them, and the seller would be inspected at the first best check.
Raw minced meat or other raw meat that is often open on the market in Thailand full of flies at 40°C, is of course not the very best choice for someone who thinks.
But yes, I was already afraid of the reactions of people who have only become ill from the food in the Netherlands, and never in Thailand.555
Yes, in the past you did indeed not have refrigerators and life expectancy was also a lot lower. Personally, I am in favor of keeping meat and fish refrigerated as much as possible in Thailand.
An Australian doctor says that the parasite occurs in 25% of people, so it is a very common parasite. You may or may not get sick of it. The doctor has not been able to find the evidence….
Then the victims say that they became ill in Thailand and will never go to Asia again. So a star restaurant in Tokyo is immediately suspicious. A bit of strange reasoning... And that after so long a time the perpetrator suddenly comes to mind. Maybe it was the airplane food...
They're looking for a scapegoat.
I once became ill in The Hague from grilled salmon in a neat restaurant on the Plein. So I advise everyone not to go to The Hague anymore, because you can just get sick of it.
What I always wondered, why are the door handles of the toilets in Thailand, round metal balls.
With your carefully washed hands, you have to open that ball around your toilet with your full hand.
I can't call that nice and fresh, a door handle with trade seems a better option, but who am I...
If there is a food inspection tomorrow
In Thailand happens 90%
rejected from the eateries.Woon
12 years here cook every day 3 x eat
is always a risk.
Pathetic people. We can miss this as a toothache. After two years of complaining and groaning, has their holiday budget already been spent for this year, so that this way they can quickly get a free trip to Thailand??
The parasite is not in them…….. They themselves are a……..
Grrrrrrrr Dre
I was also sick a few years ago when I came home from Thailand. I also had a bacteria with me. I said that I never eat anything at a stall on the street. But my doctor also told me that if a cook has not washed his hands after visiting the toilet, you can certainly get sick when he prepares the food. had.
There are as many as 100 causes to indicate how one acquired the parasite.
1. swimming in the sea at pattaya and jomtien beach at the sewer outlet.
2. In any river or puddle.
3. drinking tap water
4. Drinking from an improperly rinsed glass
5. drinking rrm glass of nam anau at a street vendor
6. eating a (traditional) ice cream
7. That after two years it can still be determined that it is precisely because of that one portion of pad thai seems very far-fetched to me.
8 to 100.
Can even get excited by the lukewarm food on an airplane. Even after a number of very bad experiences, always take a packed lunch with you on a long flight.
I once bought chicken legs around Patong Beach in Phuket, not sufficiently cooked, red around the leg, I didn't trust this, no problem for a friend, but 2 hours later madam was already in hospital on a baxter all night! A bacterium or a parasite? Otherwise nothing but praise for Thailand and its people.
Grts drsam
Dear bloggers, in the beginning of my stay in Thailand I was also hospitalized twice with food poisoning. I will never eat any of those dishes that they prepare on such a cart. If I buy roast chicken or something similar, first I microwafe for at least 2 minutes so that I'm sure it's heated above 5 degrees before I eat it, never been sick again in 60 years, otherwise I cook at home myself or my Thai wife.