Re: Where have all the Afbans gone?

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:07:27 +0100, Sarah Eggleston
<sarah.eggleston1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> That all happened in 24 hours?  Everyone I know who's gone there has
>> gotten a bad amoeba- where do you go there for medicine, and how long
>> does it take to work?
>> 
>You can get oral rehydration salts easily. After a couple of days I went 
>to buy some more and a chemist who didn't speak any English interpreted 
>my mime correctly and handed me a strip of Norflox. I looked it up on 
>Google, discovered the dose and that it was the perfect drug for my 
>symptoms (wish I'd thought of it sooner!). The first pill worked like 
>magic almost immediately, although I did complete 3 days as advised.

So you don't need a written prescription there?  Some people here go
to Mexico because the drugs are so cheap there, Canada, too, but you
need a script.

>
>Interestingly, several chemists claimed that you don't need chloroquine 
>because "there's no malaria in Kerala", which I think WHO wouldn't agree 
>with. When I finally tracked some down, (branded stuff, no less!) it was 
>7 rupees for 6 week supply. Which is about ... ooo... a thousandth? 
>tenthousandth? of the price you pay in the UK for the same stuff.
>
>You do ask good questions, I've had fun answering them tonight!

I think some of my firends get tired of my questions.  I have to know
who, what, where, why and when.  And how.  Every little gory detail.

I was thinking of going to India in my early 20's, but some people
convinced me it wasn't a place for a girl travelling alone.

KS

>
>-Sazz