[Gocamino] Re: [Santiagobis] Re: The Turista Two-Step

[Glenn]

I guess that I have to throw in my 2 cents here.  A couple of years ago, when I decided to walk the Camino, one of the questions I had was about water quality.  My friends and relatives wanted me to take antibiotics with me!  The reply I got from the GOCAMINO listserve was that Spain is not a third world country, don't worry about it.  That is what I found to be true.  If it was a temporary change in water quality, a lot of the "natives" would also get ill, since they were used to normal EU standard water, wouldn't they?.   I walked in May and when I got to the albergue the stage before Carrion, Fromista that is, their dining area did not have a real kitchen...we washed the dishes outside in cold water with whatever soap happened to be there.  I remember thinking about that, and wondering if I would suffer some discomfort later...(I did not).  I wonder how many of the sick people in recent accounts ate off the dishes at Fromista?
In reality there are so many opportunities on the Camino to pick up a bug due to questionable cleanliness and hygene.  I like the idea of being proactive with some natural substance like cranberry juice.  I don't remember seeing it along the way.  What is it called in Spanish?  Do you think that cranberry extract in pill or capsule form would be just as effective?
Glenn
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ghobbs9 
  To: Santiagobis at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:14 PM
  Subject: [Santiagobis] Re: The Turista Two-Step


  Interesting information regarding cranberry juice preventing 
  intestinal infections.  Someone could conduct a study of pilgrims on 
  the Meseta.  All they would need would be for an albergue at one end 
  to give information about the study to people and then randomly assign 
  people either to use cranberry juice or not, and an albergue at the 
  other end to record the results.  One could easily get a statistically 
  significant number of people in one season. 

  Of course if the cranberry group were drinking juice instead of water 
  from tainted fountains, that might give a false result favoring the 
  juice. Some have already suggested using bottled water on this stretch 
  of the trail. 

  I still suspect the highly contagious Norwalk virus (the notorious 
  cruise ship virus) which could easily be spread in albergues. If the 
  cranberry hypothesis is correct, it should reduce the number of those 
  infections. 

  Doug







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