Article: Health: Could your holiday ruin your health? Going on holiday is supposed to be about forgetting your problems, not creating new ones. So to avoid turning your vacation into a health disaster, here's our guide to keeping safe.(Features)

Byline: Words: Lynne Michelle.

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Sampling the local cuisine should be a holiday highlight, but a dodgy meal can mean the only sight you'll be seeing is the hotel toilet bowl. Although most people associate tourist's tum with more exotic destinations like India and Egypt, you can get it anywhere - around 30% of Brits holidaying in southern Europe (including Spain) will suffer from diarrhoea. The main sources are contaminated food and unclean water. If you are hit with the squits, take a rehydration fluid to replace lost sugars and salts, ...

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