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Montezuma's revenge

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Montezuma's revenge.


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While [travel books] don't include up-to-the minute information about inoculations, they include climate, food and water conditions and how to avoid illnesses such as Montezuma's revenge in Third World countries," she says.
On a work trip to Mexico some years ago, I had a bad attack of Montezuma's revenge - the nickname given to a particularly unpleasant type of local stomach upset.
Even Montezuma's revenge and other diarrheal illnesses don't necessarily change the underlying makeup, or even numbers, of the community of bacteria living in the colon.
 
 
 
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