Diarrhoea-hit family get Bt40,000 hospital bill after eating at “fine-dining” restaurant

[Mikeasq60]

In america we call that the hershey squirts. In Afghanistan where I work you drink the bad water here youll go to the toilet so much blood comes out!

[fraggleRock]

My last outing in Bangkok fine dining put me in intensive care for nearly 2 weeks and 1.7 Million Bhat to boot, I never eat what I don’t cook myself and now cant wait for me repatriation flight home after 10 years being here ... A filthy country populated by filthy people... 

Edited July 30, 2020 by fraggleRock

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Berkshire said:

This story doesn't make sense.  Everyone who's lived in Thailand long enough must have been hit with the diarrhea before, or some manner of food poisoning.  I certainly have, one time so severe that I had painful stomach cramps, fatigue, and diarrhea for days.  But I never bothered to go to the hospital and recovered.  So to pay 40,000 bt for diarrhea....bizarre.

Maybe it 40,000 for the clean up operation.

[ChipButty]

I always say where I live in the low season be careful where you eat and I dont eat off the markets, recently I've thrown a few things away, bread was one 3 times the loaf had gone mouldy within a couple of days, A bottle of milk I bought last week I had to throw it away.

[warcy]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Nobody forced them to use private hospitals.

Would have cost them nothing at the local government hospital.

Or they could have purchased a packet of Loperamide (Imodium) for 20bht.

How does Imodium kill bacteria? 

[wazzupnow]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Nobody forced them to use private hospitals.

Would have cost them nothing at the local government hospital.

Or they could have purchased a packet of Loperamide (Imodium) for 20bht.

i smell a "stinky" scam

[Rotweiler]

Couldn't agree more.  Had that happen to me during a visit to my kids in Houston.  The hospital bill was 17,000$ (can't remember the exchange rate then), 2 days 3 nights.  A loverly US restaurant. 

 

Must admit tho, I had been forewarned.  Seems the US of A had more case of food poisoning than any other country in the world - and 11 times that of Thailand.

 

Glad I live here.

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Nobody forced them to use private hospitals.

Would have cost them nothing at the local government hospital.

Or they could have purchased a packet of Loperamide (Imodium) for 20bht.

I knew a girl had a few too many drinks and went to a private hospital the next day suffering from a hangover, and they charged her 10,000 baht for what was probably a couple of paracetamol.

[stouricks]

Don't need Imodium or antibiotics. A packet of Bisto.

 

Won't cure it but will thicken it up a bit.    PML

[terryofcrete]

4 hours ago, scammed said:

ime, it takes antibiotic to kill off the bacteria, immodium could well make it worse

After Breakfast in a very well know hotel in North Pattaya I was in a complete mess tummy and diarrhea... I asked the receptionist and she called a taxi to to a small clinic in Nakula ... OMG .. said the doctor .. he said he could hear the bacteria let me listen in on his stethoscope.. 1.5 hours on a bed with an intravenous antibiotic drip.. nurse sat there most of the time ... prescription given and supplied by the doctor .. 2 hours there . he apologized and said unfortunately the bill will be 2000baht ... I hurried next door and bought a magnum ice cream for all the staff,..the private hospitals ...total rip off .

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, Berkshire said:

This story doesn't make sense.  Everyone who's lived in Thailand long enough must have been hit with the diarrhea before, or some manner of food poisoning.  I certainly have, one time so severe that I had painful stomach cramps, fatigue, and diarrhea for days.  But I never bothered to go to the hospital and recovered.  So to pay 40,000 bt for diarrhea....bizarre.

I came within two days of dying from food poisoning, according to a hospital I ended up going to after a local doctor who probably qualified by buying a white coat diagnosed me as having bronchitis (another doctor once diagnosed a heart attack suffered by a friend of mine as indigestion, but that's another story).

 

I wrote of the whole experience on Stickman and it was also published in the Expat page of the UK Daily Telegraph. Hopefully, the mods will allow the link as it makes interesting reading. I would mention that it's nine years old.

http://www.stickmanbangkok.com/ReadersSubmissions2011/reader6954.htm

[bluesofa]

9 minutes ago, stouricks said:

Don't need Imodium or antibiotics. A packet of Bisto.

 

Won't cure it but will thicken it up a bit.    PML

Ah, the plop thickens.

[trucking]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

diarrhoea

 

Bummer.

[Swedenlars]

<deleted> happens. But you don't want it happen this way. BTW, I guess it was a Thai family. If would have been Farangs they would have said: Farang can not eat Thai food. Solly.

[abonsa]

40000 when only what is needed if visit the toilets ? how stupid ?

Last time it was 30000 ????

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30369770

 

 

Edited July 30, 2020 by abonsa

[Swedenlars]

1 minute ago, abonsa said:

40000 when only what is needed if visit the toilets ? how stupid ?

I guess you never had a severe diarrhea. It can become deadly.

[Foghorn]

Thai hospital , a money grab 

[Cranky]

5 hours ago, scammed said:

ime, it takes antibiotic to kill off the bacteria, immodium could well make it worse

Very Thai. Antibiotics for everything, I’ve been offered them for everything from a runny nose to a heart attack. Immodium bungs up everything, best drug in the country. 

[Peterphuket]

It is common for food poisoning to occur after 6 hours.

Incidentally, I also atefish the day before yesterday in a restaurant in BKK, in Chinatown, and I felt very good.

Edited July 30, 2020 by Peterphuket

[Andre0720]

6 hours ago, scammed said:

ime, it takes antibiotic to kill off the bacteria, immodium could well make it worse

If so, a private doctor will prescribe and provide the antibiotics for about 180 bahts.

[scammed]

1 minute ago, Andre0720 said:

If so, a private doctor will prescribe and provide the antibiotics for about 180 bahts.

even that is not needed, i got a supply on the ready otc stuff

[1sickpuppy]

6 hours ago, scammed said:

ime, it takes antibiotic to kill off the bacteria, immodium could well make it worse

irrodium is garbage keeps the poisen in, try norfloxin it kills bacteria i know resided here 26 years

[scammed]

5 minutes ago, 1sickpuppy said:

irrodium is garbage keeps the poisen in, try norfloxin it kills bacteria i know resided here 26 years

norfloxacin is precisely what i keep in stock, never leave kreml without it

[mrfill]

Possibly down to the salmon mousse...

 

 

 

[BritManToo]

33 minutes ago, Andre0720 said:

If so, a private doctor will prescribe and provide the antibiotics for about 180 bahts.

Makro pharmacy will sell you the antibiotics for 30bht.

[terminatorchiangmai]

Sea food even at the coast made me sick for one day on my holiday. Its safer here in chiang Mai straight out of the aquarium and cheaper also

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I came within two days of dying from food poisoning, according to a hospital I ended up going to after a local doctor who probably qualified by buying a white coat diagnosed me as having bronchitis (another doctor once diagnosed a heart attack suffered by a friend of mine as indigestion, but that's another story).

 

I wrote of the whole experience on Stickman and it was also published in the Expat page of the UK Daily Telegraph. Hopefully, the mods will allow the link as it makes interesting reading. I would mention that it's nine years old.

http://www.stickmanbangkok.com/ReadersSubmissions2011/reader6954.htm

Interesting, did they ever tell you exactly which type of food poisoning it was?

[johnray]

Rich people go to hospital for the slightest thing.  I saw one rich b*tch fell off her sedge way and went to hospital for a grazed knee.

 

I've had it coming out of both ends but never went to hospital.

[musicscene]

6 hours ago, CGW said:

100% agree, on the rare occasion I do get a bug I take a dose of epsom salts to get rid of the <deleted> as quickly as possible and drink lots of water with some minerals.

Do you get your Epsom salts in Thailand as I have not been able to find any after using the supply I brought with me from the Uk 

[MadMuhammad]

6 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

I live nearby and know this place. It's been on my wish list of places to visit for a while. It looked good and has good reviews (until now). Sea Urchin and Capelin would not be my choice of food but their other stuff looks much safer. I wonder if they'll stay in business much longer as the Ari HiSo's will soon spread word of their sickness. 40,000 Baht for diarrhoea is excessive.  

I just spent a night in BKK Hospital Pattaya with food poisoning, 23800 baht