When My wife went back to Thailand, a few weeks ago to see her family, she started to catch up on all Thai food, she had been missing .

back in the UK, She got Stomach problems, the same type of things that some Falang suffer from time to time. me being one of them.

She got an upset stomach, and the Thai two step a few times, also she got bitten by Mosquitoes, as you do in the provinces.

Her body reacted badly to the bites. I have asked a few of her friends that live in the UK , Do they suffer the same, A lot said yes. I wounder is it

food Hygiene standards are higher in the west, and we put fluoride in the water, Has it some how sterilized there body to the extent that they

cannot eat the same as before they left Thailand. for awhile, while there body re adjusts.

if so is it a good thing or a bad thing for them, or is it, us in the UK that live in a to sterilized environment. any one else come across this situation

before.

Moving to Health, Body, and Medicine Forum.

this is not the topic i posted it has been edited why

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An answer to the OP ... NO

My other half has been back and forth many times ... nary an issues either way.

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Depends on how different their diet is between homes, including drugs and other chemicals like pesticides in foods, even skin care products.

Scientists are only just starting to catalog - much less understand their interrelated roles of - the symbiotic microflora in and on our bodies.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/
http://grist.org/food/gut-punch-monsanto-could-be-destroying-your-microbiome/
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/bacteria-health-microbiome-disease-research.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/31/bacteria-faecal-transplant-gut-mary-roach-gulp

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/fecal-transplants-work/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/fecal-clinical-trial/

Justin Sonnenburg, a microbiologist at Stanford, suggests that we would do well to begin regarding the human body as “an elaborate vessel optimized for the growth and spread of our microbial inhabitants.” This humbling new way of thinking about the self has large implications for human and microbial health, which turn out to be inextricably linked.

It is quite common whenever anyone travels to a new country or region to have frequent illnesses at first. Differences in diet, different strains of common viruses etc. It improves with time.

If one Thai Minister succeeds in his ambitions, next time you visit your wife will be 10 cm taller

And the answer to your question will be "yes". Just wait and see...