Pepto Bismal and/or Travelan?

Might want to read through this post.

Your Experience with Food Poisoning (or not!) Morocco

Every one of our MDs have recommended that we take Pepto- Bismal before traveling to third world. countries.

I suggest talking to a medical professional, specifically one that specializes in travel. Aside from providing appropriate advice on treatments, they may also recommend preventative vaccines https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/morocco

Go to Adventures with Sarah website (.net) and search the blog for "The Travelers Diarrhea Companion" by a pharmacist. She recommends Pepto Bismol.

Hello, kcglobal, we are both carefully preparing for Morocco!
I had posted the query above and that's where I found out about PeptoBismal. I am so grateful to this Forum. I've never used it before, so am going to try it at home first to make sure I don't have any weird reactions. The travel nurse through my health care provider hadn't heard of it as a prophylactic but it's certainly online from my research. Many posters appear to take it just ahead of the trip and then throughout?
She did prescribe antibiotics, which I am very happy to have (only if needed, of course)- she described the scenarios- blood in stools, etc- if things get really dire. That might be one more thing to add to your kit of supplies!

We took Travelan with us on our recent trip to India and Nepal. It is very pricey. We took it faithfully before every meal for about a week. We stopped taking it after that as no one in our group was suffering from any digestive issues nor did we for the following two weeks after. We did carry Cipro with us just in case as we normally do. The main thing is to keep the local water out of your mouth. Drink only bottled water, brush your teeth with bottled water and don’t get the water in your mouth when showering. This tactic has served us well in our travels around the world. Also be careful of salads and fresh cut vegetables as they might have been washed in the local water.

Make sure you take enough.

While I can't speak for Morocco, I know that Pepto Bismol is not sold in the EU. The only place I have found it in Europe is in the UK and it was behind the pharmacist's counter.

Yup, no Pepto Bismal in the EU and I dont think you will find it outside of the EU in Europe. TUMS are also rare as rocking horse poo. I rely on both so the Pepto comes from a secret German source and the TUMS I get from Amazon.de for like a euro a chew. I think this is why Europeans dont smile as much as Americans.

Great article on the topic: https://www.globalrescue.com/common/blog/detail/ban-over-the-counter-drugs-medication-international-travel/

I'll mention again Dukoral, even though I believe from previous posts that it isn't available in the US.

Dukoral is an oral vaccine for traveller's diarrhea that is heavily marketed to Canadians going south in the winter. We took it prior to a China tour and were the only people who didn't get sick. We'll be taking it it again before our February departure to Southeast Asia.

It doesn't require a prescription so is easily purchased at pharmacies if in Canada.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a lot of information on travel to Morocco.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/morocco

They also publish the "Yellow Book."
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/yellowbook-home

CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel is a resource for healthcare professionals providing care to international travelers. It compiles the US government’s most current travel health guidelines, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts.

Mr E.....while Tums (brand) isn't sold in the EU, its main ingredient, calcium carbonate, is.

In Germany, you can buy a box of 30 tablets for under 5 Euros. (Rossman carries it.) I don't know what is available in Hungary.

According to Google Translate, Calcium Carbonate is Kalcium-Karbonat in Hungarian.

When we travel to a location that we might be concerned we take Dukoral some weeks before travel and Pepto with us.

Thank you Frank II, I've been buying the Tums from Amazon.de. About $30 for 72 tabs. And being Hungary, takes two weeks for delivery. I will go to Rossmann but we joke here that you cant even get a band-aid here without first talking to a pharmacist.