Peatisback

Many of the bugs that cause stomach problems do so very quickly- in a matter of hours. If you're on a 14 hour flight and you get sick, end up in the hospital, and get an idea of what bug you were infected with, the food you had can be sampled (all the un-eaten food left on the plane, or more likely wherever the food was prepared) for the same bug. Of course, it is expected that many other people would be sick as well.

LapLap

Sounds to me like the people who make Xenical should get together with a sanitary pad manufacturer and provide them along with the 'medicine'.

party_boy

I ALWAYS fly with Immodium and Cipro. Immodium when it's not bad...and Cipro when it doesn't work. I guess it's my fault when I travel to cities where there are bugs with names no one can pronounce

Kettering Northants QC

Delhi 8 years ago I was going to the loo every 15 minutes at my hotel. Ended up taking about 8 imodoium tablets, I was dreading the journey to the airport let alone the flight! Anyway it must have been the 8th tablet or the sheer will power but I locked up and didn't need the loo for about 3 days afterwards

I suppose the consolation is that it's very unlikely you will see any of your copassengers ever again and given that you are landing that will be up and off the plane pretty quick.

brentley

I was on a flight from MCO to DFW where someone spent almost the entire trip in the lav. The FA team got him out at the very end and got him back to his seat, but he fled back into the lav within 3 minutes. He would not come out of the lav, we were on final approach, gear down and descending when the pilot aborted landing. After circiling for 20 minutes, and having the FA team do everthing to get him out (I was close to the LAV) he refused to come out. The pilot just landed the plane with him in the LAV. As I was deplaning they were bringing a stretcher down to take him off.

Luckily I did not miss my connection (was last flight to my destination for the day) but I would have been somewhat un-happy had that occured.

Fraser

A friend of mine was white water rafting Nepal a few years ago and on the last day nearly drowned. Held under the water for almost a minute, he wasn't hospitalised and so flew home very sick the next day. During the flight (via AUH) he got rather ill, instead of hopping between his seat and the bathroom every few minutes he got the crew to effectively "seal off" one toilet and designate it for his use only. He told me he spent about 90% of the flight in there (more comfortable than his Y seat ) but he did have to come out for landing. The crew basically gave him until the 11th hour and then he went back to his seat.

rebadc

Should I be concerned that I'm reading this thread

grahamb

I met someone years ago who did get locked in the lav for landing. The crew could not get the door open and told her to brace herself for landing. A maintenance team came on when they'd landed and removed the door (or something similar)

Analise

Excellent advice. I will carry it on all of my flights.

ROW2Aisle

I'm surprised that some clever inventor has not come up with a personal plug shaped like the Dutch boy's finger in the Hans Brinker legend of the boy who saved Holland by plugging the leak in the dike.

SkiAdcock

Not to hijack the thread, but I'm surprised a doctor would give the co-worker Xenical for a 10-lb weight loss. It's a prescription drug & is usually given to obese folk. LA Times had an article in the paper last week that they're coming out w/ an over-the-counter version; same icky side effects according to the article.

I usually travel w/ a dose of cold medicine, immodium, etc, just in case of illness on plane or on trip. When I flew back from LHR in Dec I spent a lot of time in the lav on the way to/from (luckily my C seat was near it) due to a simple bladder infection. Turns out the first antibiotic they gave me was resistant to the bug & didn't prescribe the 2nd until I returned. And evidently I wasn't resistent to the bug the guy sitting next to me coughed out for 8 hours because I came down w/ the flu 24 hours after landing. All around it was a sucky trip, although it did clinch my 1K status.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Pat89339

Many years ago on a Sh!ttle flight from SFO/LAX there was a young teenage boy who spent the flight in the F lav due to some bug. The FA begged for him to return to his seat. He said he couldn't. After several discussions with him (through the door) and the pilot, they finally let him stay in there. The flight landed with him in the lav.

So whether or not it is against FAA requirements, I've seen it happen before.

painintheuk

Sorry to appear thick, but how is it dangerous to fellow passengers?

It's a serious question, but all I can think of is the farcical reason that 'without a seatbelt he might accidentally, without a seatbelt, when they touched down, burst through the LOCKED door and spray the fellow passengers and give them a communicable disease?

FWIW, I'm an Immodium carrier for ONLY these type of situations, but never want to have to use it - just like life insurance .

Dr. PITUK

AllanJ

Just my opinion, if the air crew dragged someone out of the rest room or denied someone access to the rest room, the airline could not hold the person responsible for soiling of seats or other parts of the plane.

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craw

I came across this thread as I am currently experiencing this problem and within four hours of today, we are driving up to Vermont for a snowboarding trip.

I am 100% positive it was the airline food that made me sick, because I did not have this problem until I ate their dinner.

Thoughts?