Digestive problems at WDW?

[Disstevefan1]

To me it’s a “rite of passage” as a WDW fan to get some “good ol’ WDW food poisoning”.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

The Targets in Orlando now sell Poland Spring…if you drink that in NJ like my wife does…that’s ALL she drinks…

Do you think its the same?

Looks like they have half a dozen springs they draw from but all are in Maine

Poland Spring is exactly the same stuff as half a dozen other brands with a different label slapped on it. They're owned by Nestle.

 

[JoeCamel]

Poland Spring is exactly the same stuff as half a dozen other brands with a different label slapped on it. They're owned by Nestle.

Now if you had said Zhills but I don't think so in this case

 

[Lilofan]

To me it’s a “rite of passage” as a WDW fan to get some “good ol’ WDW food poisoning”.

I've seen fellow guests yak right in front of me in the parks. Kudos to the custodial cast in cleaning up the vomit in all areas of the park.

 

[esskay]

They're owned by Nestle.

Sounds like a good reason to avoid it!

 

[drod1985]

Either got food poisoning from tacos during Flower and Garden or picked up norovirus during my 2018 trip with a few buddies. Hit me on our last day of the trip and it was brutal. What is usually a 2.5 hour drive home took 5 hours with all the stops to barf on the side of the turnpike, ended up having to go to the hospital.

I've been super paranoid on each Disney trip since. Got some hand sanitizer that supposedly specifically breaks down norovirus as most regular hand sanitizers don't.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Poland Spring is exactly the same stuff as half a dozen other brands with a different label slapped on it. They're owned by Nestle.

The water comes from different places…yes, they’re all owned by Nestle…Zephyrhills is a big brand in Florida, owned by Nestle, but their water COMES from Florida…PS comes from several springs in Maine and the NE…we all know why the pizza and bagels suck in Florida…it’s the water…

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

I’ve only been on one cruise in my life but I recall that the food on the ship consistently made me sick. Not like over the top stomach bug sick, just bad sour stomach even though it was the same stuff I’d eat “on land”. During days we were at port I had no issue… I concluded it must be a sensitivity to some kind of preservative they used with the onboard food. Maybe there’s a common preservative or flavoring in Disney food you’re reacting to? Or, like you said, maybe just bad luck. I travel with a toddler now so the fact that one of us will end up puking our guts out during any kind of travel is just par for the course. At that age where he will literally lick a railing for no particular reason, lol, so you can imagine how that turns out.

that's helpful!

Something like that is possibly a factor, but each visit has been different; it has not been 1 person getting sick. It rotates. It is entirely possible though that an exposure to a seasoning/preservative has sometimes been the culprit.

We try to be pretty careful about washing our hands before every meal, etc.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

I have severe IBS, so figuring out specifically what causes what is almost impossible.

I am "sick" pretty much every day until noon.

That sounds rough.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

Minor things that happen on vacation can be memorable. I remember getting an upset stomach from a pasta dish at Rainforest many years ago but it wasn’t food poisoning. Just way too much butter and cream in the sauce.

I distinctly recall a beach trip where 3 extended family members wound up getting severe food poisoning. That was over 15 years ago, but it was quite memorable. The beach house only had 1 bathroom for 9 people. Somehow that detail had been overlooked when booking the vacation house. (not WDW.)

Fun times!

 

[Sans Souci]

My stomach gets a bit dodgy when I go there. (TBF, my baseline for my stomach is "dodgy.") I think it's because I eat things that are out of the ordinary for me when I visit and lots of them.

I did get sick a couple of times after visiting. One time was noro; the other time was...I don't even know. I got sick less than 24 hours after returning. I think it was food poisoning, because I got sick and my husband never became ill. It's kind of frustrating b/c I am always washing my hands after exiting rides.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

Over 30 years of vacations and never had “digestive problems” at WDW.
I did get severely sick due to electrolyte imbalance, on the last day of one vacation a few years ago.
That really sucked.

 

[Vacationeer]

Knock on wood we’ve been pretty fortunate with none of us getting truly sick at WDW or directly after.

Last trip something did mess with me. The $13 GF Cafe apple salad was awesome but at that price thought it might be small so I also ordered the tomato feta quiche. Pretty sure that quiche was the culprit. Shoulda just stuck with the salad. It was enough but felt wasteful not to try the other dish I ordered. A short while later, horrendous bloat with accompanying labor pains. Ahhhh! But that was about it. A painful couple of hours. Happy I only took 2 bites.

 

[Skibum1970]

We purchased some burritos from Tortuga Tavern. I didn't detect anything nefarious but, at the same time, I was starting to develop a food allergy and may have triggered it. We got on Pirates and I wasn't feeling great when suddenly knew that the ride was a bad idea. However, we had moved forward and were past the point of debarking. So, I spent the entire ride with my head in my wife's lap, sweating and with chills. Somehow managed to get throug the ride but committed a cardinal sin of not knowing where the restrooms were. I went all the way to the ones where Peter Pan's queue is currently located rather than those right by the exit. Alternated running with the heel and toe method. Afterward, we started walking some more when it came on me again with a much closer restroom.. We went back to our room (thankfully at Contemporary) and "passed" the day therein. Anymore, we don't eat park food but rarely.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

My stomach gets a bit dodgy when I go there. (TBF, my baseline for my stomach is "dodgy.") I think it's because I eat things that are out of the ordinary for me when I visit and lots of them.

I did get sick a couple of times after visiting. One time was noro; the other time was...I don't even know. I got sick less than 24 hours after returning. I think it was food poisoning, because I got sick and my husband never became ill. It's kind of frustrating b/c I am always washing my hands after exiting rides.

That’s why…he has a better immune system than you BECAUSE he doesn’t adhere to the same precautions that you do…I’ve said this several times over the years, pre pandemic, there were medical reports that were released saying that people were OVERUSING hand sanitizers and bacteria was evolving to be more resistant to the ingredients.
When I was a kid during the summer, I was dirty everyday and took baths everyday because we spent EVERY WAKING moment outside…dirty hands? They made their way into my mouth, I’m sure. When I was in high school and part of college, I pumped gas…our station was so busy, many days we ate our dinner on top of the pumps with oil and gasoline covered hands…and NEVER got sick…in my 58 years, I’ve found that the more you try to avoid getting sick, the more you get sick.

 

[TARDIS]

Several trips a year for the past 13 years and got norovirus once after our water park day in 2015. Hit one person the next day and worked it’s way down the list from there. Worst noro we’ve ever had too. But a couple of colds and general tummy upsets from junk food is it for sicknesses in all those trips.

 

[Lilofan]

That’s why…he has a better immune system than you BECAUSE he doesn’t adhere to the same precautions that you do…I’ve said this several times over the years, pre pandemic, there were medical reports that were released saying that people were OVERUSING hand sanitizers and bacteria was evolving to be more resistant to the ingredients.
When I was a kid during the summer, I was dirty everyday and took baths everyday because we spent EVERY WAKING moment outside…dirty hands? They made their way into my hands, I’m sure. When I was in high school and part of college, I pumped gas…our station was so busy, many days we ate our dinner on top of the pumps with oil and gasoline covered hands…and NEVER got sick…in my 58 years, I’ve found that the more you try to avoid getting sick, the more you get sick.

Hand sanitizer didn't even exist when I grew up and I recall when I washed my hands in a public bathroom sink the only area to wipe your hands was the old fashioned reusable towel dispenser where hundreds or maybe thousands of guys wiped their wet hands on the moist used towel dispenser.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Hand sanitizer didn't even exist when I grew up and I recall when I washed my hands in a public bathroom sink the only area to wipe your hands was the old fashioned reusable towel dispenser where hundreds or maybe thousands of guys wiped their wet hands on the moist used towel dispenser.

And nothing like the taste of water coming out of a nice, hot garden hose…

 

[Lilofan]

And nothing like the taste of water coming out of a nice, hot garden hose…

Football 2-a-days in August and our water break when the coach allowed us to drink water was from a garden hose. No ice cold Gatorade for us. Our lunch was whatever our mom gave us in a brown bag. No one died from heat exhaustion but there were close calls.

 

[LeighM]

Hand sanitizer didn't even exist when I grew up and I recall when I washed my hands in a public bathroom sink the only area to wipe your hands was the old fashioned reusable towel dispenser where hundreds or maybe thousands of guys wiped their wet hands on the moist used towel dispenser.

That reusable bathroom towel was absolutely disgusting!!!! I never used it, not even as a child LOL. I would wash my hands and rub my hands dry rather than use that nasty, germ infected thing! For all I knew, they were using it to wipe things other than clean hands.....