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One of the biggest concerns people have with traveling–especially to areas where the water isn’t safe to drink–is how they can avoid getting sick.
The whole month or two before traveling to India, I wondered how I could avoid getting sick while there. I’d been warned and scared by so many people about the likelihood of getting sick from the food or water that I was considering packing a bunch of granola bars and living off that til I got to my ashram.
I’m beyond happy that I didn’t let my fear consume me too much–if I had, I never would’ve experienced the incredible food that I did in Delhi and throughout the rest of India.
Have I ever gotten sick traveling? Yes, and both times while living in third-world countries.
It actually took much longer in India than in Peru. There, I was sick within the first week of arrival. My stomach basically had to get used to the water there since my host mom used it to cook food.
In India, I made it up until the last week without having a reaction. I’m still not sure what caused it since I was eating and drinking the same things that everyone else in the ashram was, so that one remains a mystery.
Besides the stomach issues and vomiting, I also got a fever and chills and had to work it out of my body through…
