Tummy bug Cleudo

[Johnnytheboy]

I've just spent a thoroughly enjoyable night "having an upset stomach", which is much detail as anyone needs. I started feeling ill very suddenly at about 1700 yesterday.

The thing is, I've put my body through a fair bit in the last few days (walking and camping trip) so there's not one obvious candidate for the cause. I was lying in bed last night playing a version of Cleudo in my head trying to work out which is most likely:

Wed PM: drank 2 pints of really not very well served Cider then slept in a wood
Thursday: walked all day in very hot weather, probably got a bit dehydrated
Thursday ~ 5pm: due to extreme thirst filled my water bottle in a river and drank that
Yesterday lunchtime: 2 more pints of cider in pub not known for its hygiene standards

Now it seems to me the most likely candidate was river water on the Wednesday, but I felt fine for 24 hours thereafter. As in my experience tummy bugs take effect very quickly, does this point the finger at Friday's cider? Or can a tummy bug take 24 hours to kick in?

I feel more or less fine now so at least it didn't last long.

[goldblum]

Have you had no food since Wednesday?

[Johnnytheboy]

Yes, normal amounts, but nothing noteworthy.

[V8Ford]

My vote is river water - there was probably something dead in it upstream

As for the timescales, stomach bugs can take up to 72 hours to take hold before the 'fizzy gravy' starts to flow...

Matthew

[southendpier]

Fillled my bottle in Snowdonia in a lovely crystal stream. 50 yards upstream was the rotten remains of a part submerged lamb.

[Johnnytheboy]

V8Ford said:

As for the timescales, stomach bugs can take up to 72 hours to take hold before the 'fizzy gravy' starts to flow...

That makes river water more likely.