Immodium is great to stop the symptoms..... but does nothing for the bug - so you will still feel like c*** until it runs its course. You just won't have the diarhea. I made it through a week in Mexico only to have a scotch and water with ice on the last day.... mistake! Figured the alcohol would kill any bugs. boy was I surprised. Navigating 3 airports to find bathroom every 10 minutes it seemed.

Granted maybe it wasn't the water and ice, could have been the culmination of all the foods over the week but I was still sick.

I am such a chicken after that that I got all the shots I could possibly get when I went to Roatan a couple years later - all the hep series A& B , typohid, tetnaus and probably a few extras.

Good luck and be careful,
Martha