Drank spring water from half way up Jacobs ladder now feeling ill :(

ran out of water yesterday so got some from the spring next to that house on the other side of jacobs ladder as if you’re going up the hill to go down it, now feeling ill, what could i have got 🙁

my p!ss 😉

Hope you feel better soon

Probably bovine TB 😉

Hi
Could be any number of things depending on incubation, symptoms etc
eg cryptosporidia, salmonella, campylobacter etc etc.
If you feel unwell go to see your GP with a stool sample and they will investigate further.
Cheers
Steve

What David Walliams has got?

A fear of doctors? An inability to describe symptoms when asking for advice? Broken Shift keys?

Never drink any natural water in the UK. There is always a dead sheep in the stream higher up.

I keep pukeing and stomach feels like ive eaten a brick. Used to do it in Cornwall all the time no problems.

There is always a dead sheep in the stream higher up

Next time it could be a childs face.

You need early medical intervention. Antidote not anecdote.

AIDS

😀 @ Cougar

Drinking from streams without using a puritab or similar? I expect you have a range of parasites multiplying rapidly in your body. I wouldn’t worry about it.

I expect you have a range of parasites multiplying rapidly in your body.

Hah! bugs ****, in your body!

Drinking from streams without using a puritab or similar?

Oh! Just reread the thread – I’d assumed that you had indeed used a puritab or similar. 😯

spring next to that house on the other side of jacobs ladder as if you’re going up the hill to go down it,

That’s not half way up is it – more like in the valley bottom.

Anyway, what did your doctor say?

Oh lordy! Sounds to me like you could have fallen victim of the infamous Hora Trail Poo.

drank from mountain streams in Scotland for many years and never once had the trots.

i know this is largely irrelevant but so is asking for medical diagnosis on a bike forum, so we’re all square i think.

so we’re all square i think.

Not me Daddio!

i know this is largely irrelevant but so is asking for medical diagnosis on a bike forum, so we’re all square i think

Is it square to be irrelevant? Ay Carrera!

OP – as ^^^^^. Medication not hesitation.

Giardiasis

Expect to be urinating blood, excruciating stomach pains, embarrassing doctors visits, and finally an unpleasant bladder examination. Guess where the camera goes?

Rabies.

Scabies.

And possibly, Gout.

Gout is a given. All those (im)purines

Could be farm/chemical run-off thats entered the water higher up.

It’d be very rare that it’ll be a sheep further up.

Anyone seen that petrol/diesel-like residue on surface/puddle water up in the Peaks- what is that?

In the OP’s defence, I’ve drunk from streams for years with no puritabs (yeuchhhh), as long as it’s flowing the odd’s of getting a bug are minimal and the odds of anything worse requiring medical treatment minute.

Seem’s you were just unlucky, get to the Doc’s.

All those imp urines

Why are small mythical creatures pissing in spring water?

@ GrahamS

Help yourself!

Also have drunk from streams around the UK for years without puritabs or a problem – think you have to be fairly unlucky.

The one time I did have a problem I didn’t drink anything but didn’t realise that upstream of the river I was swimming across to go surfing was a sewage plant which, when it rained heavily, I paraphrase “open storage tanks to purge the extra liquids to ensure the tanks are not over-filled, this can include raw sewage”. Nice. A days vomiting and squits followed by a helicobacter infestation and 3 weeks on 3.5g of antibiotics per day and I’m fine 🙂 Still drink from streams.

had to drink stream water round penmachno (the high traverse section) the stuff was bloody horrible, no ill effects, just tasted awful. 🙁

Just below the natural campsite area klunk?

more a sheep based bouquet 😳 😉

so we’re all square i think.
Not me Daddio!

pmsl

Campylobacter is most likely from sheep sh!t. Weils disease would be my second guess, from rat urine. 😯 You’re better off being thirsty than having them diseases.

it tasted really peaty. will buy some puratabs i think, my tummy hurts 🙁

it tasted really peaty

Peaty, earlier;

bad news you could have damaged your liver even worse you may not wake up in the morning
never drink water unless its from a trusted source
look at david williams went for a little swim in the thames and has been very unwell since

Liver fluke I expect, or it could be a tapeworm…it’ll grow to 29feet long in your intestines…that’s what my biology teacher used to tell us.

it tasted really peaty. will buy some puratabs i think, my tummy hurts

Good plan. 2 tablets 3 times a day after meals for 1 week.

rocketman – Member

Never drink any natural water in the UK. There is always a dead sheep in the stream higher up.

Highland water is perfectly safe. Many of us drink it whenever we are in the hills and many houses have untreated highland water supplies.