Roatan introduced us to Montezuma. Anyone else lately?

[cd in chicago]

Just got back from Roatan about a week ago. Went with a group of 28. So far 18 have had a relatively serious bout with Montezuma's Revenge. Total of 3 in the ER for dehydration and a number to the MD for stool samples. Resort says no one else but our group had the problem. Anyone else in Roatan for Thanksgiving and come home to find an unwelcome traveler accompanied them?

 

[joystershell]

Just got back from Roatan about a week ago. Went with a group of 28. So far 18 have had a relatively serious bout with Montezuma's Revenge. Total of 3 in the ER for dehydration and a number to the MD for stool samples. Resort says no one else but our group had the problem. Anyone else in Roatan for Thanksgiving and come home to find an unwelcome traveler accompanied them?

I have traveled to Roatan well over a dozen times. Always stayed at the same resort. For several years, I experienced the same ailments you've described. Many guests did. The resort did everything they could think of to stop this problem, down to removing and rebuilding the kitchen. Nothing worked. Finally, the culprit was uncovered, it was a diary plant that was supplying products that made everyone sick. Once this supplier was cut off, problem solved.

 

[pir8]

Which resort, might be good to know.

 

[pir8]

Don't have ice in your drinks!

 

[joystershell]

Don't have ice in your drinks!

Don't drink!

The resort I stay at used bottled water for everything, including making the morning coffee and the ice. People still got sick. It was the dairy products.

 

[Doc]

Which resort, might be good to know.

If you are talking about the post above yours... No, it wouldn't. Try to get your head around this. All resorts on Roatan were affected equally back a few years ago. This resort fought to resolve the problem for everyone. Instead, it got blamed for "the problem" instead of being thanked for resolving it! The internet has served to refocus unwarranted blame on this worthy operation.

As for this current posted problem... would it help? Did everyone that got sick go out to dinner one night... away from the resort? How was the airline food? There are so many variables.... please don't point a finger at one resort of the other.

If you are on Roatan (or any Caribbean Isle), eat only at your resort or established restaurants. Drink bottled water. Still, you might take ill.

Me and "SCUBA24" ate cheese and dairy products like pigs during the height of that issue a few years ago, nary a loose poop from us! People around us were dropping like flies. It is the individual as well to a large extent. As Joystershell remarked, "don't drink!". We stuck with iced tea, everyone that got sick spent a lot of time drinking booze. Diminished immune systems? Don't know.

The safest place to eat is back home in Ohio. Just stay away from the Spinach!

 

[Ber Rabbit]

I ended up with a nasty case while in La Paz, Mexico. I drank nothing but bottled water and even used it to brush my teeth but still got sick. I did get a mouthful of pool water (did not swallow it) late in the week and I think that may have been the culprit. Early in the week the chlorine in the pool really burned your eyes, by the end of the week it didn't burn at all.

Just food for thought. What did you use to brush your teeth and were those that were affected in the pool?
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[CODMAN]

Yeah, we got a mild case of it during our october trip (I'm working on a detailed report, hopefully finnished soon). Nothing terribly bad, but definetly very loose! I took some mild meds for it, which helped manage it around the diving. It wasn't severe. I just made sure to make a pit stop before every dive. It took about 3 weeks to totally disapear after getting back home (there were recurring bouts). And this, despite drinking bottled water only during the trip, and using filtered water for all the rest (including ice in the drinks; at least that's what the resort claimed).

It's just part of the perks of traveling to such countries! You got to try and work around it. I'm just happy it didn't affect my diving...

Later!

 

[cd in chicago]

but all I'm looking for is answers from those who might have been at the resort when we were there.
I don't want this to sink into a discussion about what caused problems when I was on a trip to ... Or what caused the probrlems the last time we were there. Or how can we blame the resort, because it will hurt travel to the island.

We have looked at all the possibilities. The group had some people that ate at the airport. Some got sick, some didn't. Of those that didn't eat at the airport, some got sick, some didn't. Some ate the snacks or drank the beverages on the plane & got sick. Some didn't eat the snacks at the plane and still got sick.At this point, the only factor present in all those that got sick so far was that we were all at the same resort on Roatan.

I am not ready to smear the resort. For all I know the source of the intestinal disorder might have been somewhere else. All I want now is to use this forum to solicit responses from any of the other people who were in Roatan over Thanksgiving and see if they gto sick.

 

[Doc]

but all I'm looking for is answers from those who might have been at the resort when we were there. I am not ready to smear the resort. For all I know the source of the intestinal disorder might have been somewhere else. All I want now is to use this forum to solicit responses from any of the other people who were in Roatan over Thanksgiving and see if they gto sick.

PM this man!