If you develop diarrhea during flight, can you stay in the lavatory during landing?
Jan 11, 2013, 9:17 am
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Reasonably speaking, if the passenger was in the lavatory for that long how much could they really soil themself? I'm sure there would not be a huge mess to clean up, but it would be nasty.
Jan 11, 2013, 10:20 am
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Disclaimer: despite this problem we really love Egypt.
Jan 11, 2013, 10:37 am
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When the pax reconvened at the airport in the morning, it turned out everyone who had had the chicken entree had spent the night vomiting. I was grateful that I had chosen lasagne.
Jan 11, 2013, 11:45 am
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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?
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?
Jan 11, 2013, 12:04 pm
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Don't be so sure. If you talk to a doctor or read up on various types of food poisonings, you'll see that symptoms can sometimes take days to develop, depending on the specific bug. Was everyone else on the plane also sick? Then there's a case to be made for food poisoning caused by the airline meal.
In any case, I feel his/her pain. Happened to me on an Alitalia flight once due to a raging case of Beaver Fever from drinking well water in Northern BC. It is bad enough generally but being on a plane makes it just that much more special.
Jan 11, 2013, 1:12 pm
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If the food has turned, and the toxin is already present you will feel the effects in 3-6 hours.
If there there is bacteria in the food, it takes 24-48 hours for the bug to grow and thrive to where it generates the toxin.
As an adventurous eater, I know this all too well.
If there there is bacteria in the food, it takes 24-48 hours for the bug to grow and thrive to where it generates the toxin.
As an adventurous eater, I know this all too well.
Jan 11, 2013, 1:17 pm
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Not always in my fortunately rare experience. I recall about 10 years ago at a Chinese restaurant thinking one of the dishes tasted wrong and was chewy in parts where it shouldn't have been chewy. Within the hour stomach cramps had started and two-three hours later I was "in trouble"
Jan 11, 2013, 1:33 pm
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I have never done anything there but a number 1. Why do so many people on planes have to go to the rest room. I try and use the facilities before boarding. I am not talking about longer flights.
Jan 11, 2013, 2:17 pm
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I think we are talking about an unexpected bout of diarrhea. Pretty hard to plan your food poisoning/tourista/whatever around flight times.
Jan 11, 2013, 3:09 pm
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Plop plop fizz fizz ... Oh what a relief it is ...
Dropping a duece while sitting in the seat or getting yelled at because one confines themselves to the lav ... I think I'll go with the later option.
Dropping a duece while sitting in the seat or getting yelled at because one confines themselves to the lav ... I think I'll go with the later option.
Jan 11, 2013, 3:37 pm
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Jan 11, 2013, 4:10 pm
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To drop a deuce at the seat, or not, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Gut busting gas bubbles and nausea of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take To the Lavatory against a Sea of regulation and trouble,
And by opposing end them: to flee, to ease the pressure
No more; and by pressure to say we end
The Tummy-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished ...
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- Crapspeare (2013)
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Gut busting gas bubbles and nausea of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take To the Lavatory against a Sea of regulation and trouble,
And by opposing end them: to flee, to ease the pressure
No more; and by pressure to say we end
The Tummy-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished ...
...
...
...
- Crapspeare (2013)
Last edited by rajsh; Jan 11, 2013 at 11:23 pm
Jan 12, 2013, 12:55 am
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I remember one time someone barfed in the aisle of an AA flight and, the flight attendants took the carpet square off and placed a new carpet square when on the ground. Too bad if someone was forced to leave the lav during landing and they soiled the seat, then I wonder if they have a extra seat lying around. Doubt it. But eww for the next passenger!
Jan 12, 2013, 3:07 pm
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I remember one time someone barfed in the aisle of an AA flight and, the flight attendants took the carpet square off and placed a new carpet square when on the ground. Too bad if someone was forced to leave the lav during landing and they soiled the seat, then I wonder if they have a extra seat lying around. Doubt it. But eww for the next passenger!
Jan 12, 2013, 11:26 pm
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Yeah but what about the runny remains that go down to the metal, wiring and carpet ... Man I feel bad for all the people who used that seat afterwards ... One would hope the replace the seat fully and all the carpeting ... But something tells me they don't ...