Children getting sick in Disney World

[3mickeys&me]

We have never had this problem at Disney. We went every Easter when I was growing up and we never got sick. We now take our kids and try to go every two years and my kids have never gotten sick. We have drank that water and used their ice.

Guess we were just lucky!!

 

[lsteadman]

I cannot say enough about hand washing and body washing! You are in a place with thousands of different people touching the same hand rail, sitting on the same chair, etc.

Not everyone bathes daily (EVENTHOUGH THEY SHOULD). So if you have on shorts pants you legs are touching the same chair that nasty unbathe person sat in in their short pants. Then you rub your leg and touch your eye - poof - your sick.

I have seen plenty of people touch the hand rails, doors, etc then sit down and eat so its all on their food which they put in their mouth.

I have become very anal about washing, washing, washing!

 

[phamton]

He is now 21 and remembers being sick vividly. He never threw up and never felt nauseous. It was diarrhea (which did turn bloody after a couple of days) with cramps and fever. ( I was trying before not to get too graphic) Regardless, I didn't take him back out after he got sick and all the signs did point to food poisoning, probably salmonella.

It sounds like campylobacter enteritis or gastroenteritis. My son had campylobacter and his symptoms were exactly the same. It was diagnosied after a stool specimen was taken. It is cause of at least 10% of all diarrhea cases in the United States. The main symptom between it and other intestional bugs is the bloody stools.


http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/campylobacter_g.htm

Campylobacter is one of the most common bacterial causes of diarrheal illness in the United States. Diagnosis of Campylobacter requires special laboratory culture procedures, which doctors may need to specifically request. Most people who get campylobacteriosis recover completely within 2 to 5 days, although sometimes recovery can take up to 10 days.Most cases of campylobacteriosis are associated with handling raw poultry or eating raw or undercooked poultry meat.

Humans acquire the organisms by eating undercooked chicken. Infection usually leads to fever, cramps, and bloody diarrhea. The bloody diarrhea indicates that Campylobacter is an invasive pathogen that infiltrates the lining of the small intestine. Along the way, the organism excretes toxins that destroy the gut mucosa. Erythromycin is the preferred antibiotic for treatment.