{"id":24914,"date":"2025-03-28T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24914"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:22:54","slug":"what-to-know-about-food-poisoning-when-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24914","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About Food Poisoning When Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whether you\u2019re traveling off-the-beaten path or staying at a high-end resort, paying attention to how food is prepared and handled can help keep you safe.<\/p>\n

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Two cases involving possible food poisoning among tourists have raised concerns about what travelers can do to prevent and treat food-borne illnesses \u2014 not just during off-the-beaten-path adventures, but in and around resorts.<\/p>\n

While the cause of the recent death<\/a> of Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, has not been confirmed, Miller, along with other members of the Gardner family, is reported to have experienced gastrointestinal distress after eating a meal while on vacation in Costa Rica.<\/a> And a lawsuit filed this year in Toronto in connection with the food poisoning-related deaths in 2023 of 8-year-old Stephen Gougeon and his mother, April, alleges, among other things, that the Dominican Republic resort where they stayed did not take sufficient care in food handling.<\/p>\n

In general, gastrointestinal illnesses among tourists \u2014 travelers\u2019 diarrhea and food poisoning<\/a> \u2014 is especially likely to occur in countries where the water supply is unsafe. But there are also many cases of food poisoning, and hundreds of deaths, in the United States every year, and these infections can occur anywhere there are lapses in how food is handled. Raw or undercooked meat, fish and shellfish can be contaminated, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s list of high-risk foods<\/a> includes raw eggs and unpasteurized milk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Travel presents additional concerns. \u201cPeople may be in places where the tap water is not necessarily safe, and they don\u2019t have control over how food is prepared or handled,\u201d said Dr. Adam Ratner<\/a>, director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at Hassenfeld Children\u2019s Hospital at NYU Langone<\/a> in New York. \u201cWhen you\u2019re home, you have some control, and you have U.S. and local health department standards. It can be harder to assess safety somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ice made with unclean water may cause gastrointestinal problems because freezing, unlike boiling, does not kill most pathogens.<\/span>Getty Images <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Parents should be especially vigilant. Babies and young children are vulnerable to dehydration, which is generally the most dangerous aspect of gastrointestinal illnesses; other groups at high risk include pregnant women, older people and anyone who is immunocompromised. But even younger adults and adolescents may not realize how serious the symptoms of food poisoning can be, and when it is important to get medical help.<\/p>\n

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Whether you\u2019re traveling off-the-beaten path or staying at a high-end resort, paying attention to how food is prepared and handled can help keep you safe.Two cases involving possible food poisoning among tourists have raised concerns about what travelers can do to prevent and treat food-borne illnesses \u2014 not just during off-the-beaten-path adventures, but in and around resorts.While the cause of the recent death of Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, has not been confirmed, Miller, along with other members of the Gardner family, is reported to have experienced gastrointestinal distress after eating a meal while on vacation in Costa Rica. And a lawsuit filed this year in Toronto in connection with the food poisoning-related deaths in 2023 of 8-year-old Stephen Gougeon and his mother, April, alleges, among other things, that the Dominican Republic resort where they stayed did not take sufficient care in food handling.In general, gastrointestinal illnesses among tourists \u2014 travelers\u2019 diarrhea and food poisoning \u2014 is especially likely to occur in countries where the water supply is unsafe. But there are also many cases of food poisoning, and hundreds of deaths, in the United States every year, and these infections can occur anywhere there are lapses in how food is handled. Raw or undercooked meat, fish and shellfish can be contaminated, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s list of high-risk foods includes raw eggs and unpasteurized milk.Travel presents additional concerns. \u201cPeople may be in places where the tap water is not necessarily safe, and they don\u2019t have control over how food is prepared or handled,\u201d said Dr. Adam Ratner, director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at Hassenfeld Children\u2019s Hospital at NYU Langone in New York. \u201cWhen you\u2019re home, you have some control, and you have U.S. and local health department standards. It can be harder to assess safety somewhere else.\u201dIce made with unclean water may cause gastrointestinal problems because freezing, unlike boiling, does not kill most pathogens.Getty Images Parents should be especially vigilant. Babies and young children are vulnerable to dehydration, which is generally the most dangerous aspect of gastrointestinal illnesses; other groups at high risk include pregnant women, older people and anyone who is immunocompromised. But even younger adults and adolescents may not realize how serious the symptoms of food poisoning can be, and when it is important to get medical help.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24916,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24917,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions\/24917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}