welcome to Eat Baila travel we are Jenny and Kevin two mexican americans from Chicago traveling
throughout Mexico and we make stories on culture food and travel guides in today's
video we are going to give you some tips of how to avoid getting Montezuma's revenge wait what is
that you ask jenny help us out Montezuma's revenge is basically traveler's diarrhea
and it comes from the fact that montezuma the last ruler of the aztec empire left a curse that makes
foreigners sick when they come to mexico and this can happen anywhere you travel to not just mexico
when you visit a new country that has different bacteria than you're used to consuming then it's
very likely that you might get sick to your stomach it might come out one way or the other
traveler's diarrhea top symptoms are cramping fever vomiting sometimes blood in the diarrhea
patients will also develop irritable bowel syndrome and the long term would be to have it
for two weeks um in our case we got sick with our within our first two months in veracruz
and it was not pleasant whatsoever so kevin's gonna give you some tips on how to avoid that
tip number one avoid drinking tap water at all cause
drinking tap water from any country that is not yours you're not used to the germs
of the water that they have in that certain country so tap water is a no go so we just
recommend that you make sure that you're drinking purified water and don't touch that tap water
so what happens if you're eating outside of the restaurant and you ask for agua fresca don't be
shy to ask if that water that they're using for your agua fresca is made from purified water
i talked to you by experience because this one time in Peru i went to ha i ordered the orange
juice and they brought me this humongous orange juice and i was a little skeptical about it
i drank the orange juice two days later i ended up in a hospital for two days
everything that came out wasn't pretty let me just
tell you it was dark it was bloody and i felt like that was the end of kevin
so make sure you ask when you go to restaurants also check for hygiene at certain restaurants
sometimes they just use tap water and they don't tell you tip number two avoid seafood at night
here in mexico seafood is caught fresh daily and because it's caught fresh daily you want to have
it in the morning and at midday just to make sure avoid seafood at night because you never know it
might not be as fresh as it looks number three say you're coming on vacation to mexico come prepared
you can buy some imodium for anti-gas or you can buy some pepto-bismol to be prepared
if montezuma still finds a way to get you don't worry there's always a local pharmacy that you
can visit and get taken care of here's a list of the five most prevalent pharmacies of mexico
farmacia similares farmacias isa super farmacia guadalajara farmacias
most pharmacies can recommend medication but if you want to see a doctor
some pharmacies also have consultorus medicos just type consultorio medico on
google maps and you will find a different variety and find the closest one to you
okay so i'm sick i have some weird digestive issues that won't i'll spare you a lot of the
details but let's just say that the first two rounds of medication that the doctor prescribed
haven't worked so i'm on my way back to see him a third time
let's go see what dr simi has to say jenny has a [ __ ] no i don't that's the problem when you're
sick in mexico one of the simplest ways to find a doctor is at any of the farmacias similares
aka dr simi there's usually a consult center right next door um if there
isn't you can ask for the nearest one is so here we go my third time this week
i'm on day seven of the worst of the worst stomach ache of my life cramping
can't empty my bowels and i eat all the things you're supposed to eat that's the crazy part
you don't need an appointment you could just walk straight in and ask for the medical and
we've paid from 45 to 50 pesos for a visit at the cost of america these are great doctors
that will give you a full inspection and will even prescribe you medicine if it's necessary
tip number five buying medicine say you visit the doctor and he prescribed you medicine for
a specific ailment or montezuma's revenge you then take your prescription to the pharmacy and
they will set it up for you get it ready for you a very important tip for you to know is that there's
always brand medicine and there's generic medicine always go with the generic it's way cheaper
sometimes generic medicine for certain pills can be two dollars and a brand name can be ten to
fifteen dollars so you will save a bunch of money getting generic medicine but if you have time to
shop around there's a bunch of other different pharmacies that you could also check out and
they will also have different prices montezuma's revenge is no joke and you can be prepared as
much as you want for moktezuma's revenge but sometimes it's just a matter of one like now
ciao