I would have loved to have one of these a few years ago. I have a wilderness cottage and on the lake we’re on, it was affected by a family of beavers who cause beaver fever, Giardiasis. It’s a small lake so it was a problem and I got infected with it. Nothing serious or long lasting but when I went to the doctor, he asked for a series of stool samples to confirm diagnosis.
The dutch toilet would have been great for that. Instead I had to perform acrobatics and weird positions and use plastic wrap and cardboard and paper to try to make a clean collection … and there were a few accidents along the way.
I’m dreading this. I need to do the mail in your shit prostate test in the next couple years if not now. I’ve got hemorrhoids so I am very scared of anything going up my ass. Got any tips from what you learned?
Can’t say I enjoy these conversations but I know what it means to have to do it.
If I had to do it again, I’d recommend doing your business in a large garbage bag that you place in a bucket or bowl (so that it doesn’t spill). The larger the garbage bag the better. Saving garbage bags doesn’t matter anyway because you won’t be doing this too often. Once everything is in the bag, then you can take out the bag and get in to more easily collect your sample. I know you only need a small bit but it is very hard to try to do stuff over a toilet bowl with plastic, containers or whatever and not contaminate things in the water, your hand or anything else. I tried four or five different ways and always made a mess. Better to just do it all in a garbage bag. Then once you are done, wrap up the whole bag, seal it and throw it in the dumpster outside your house.
If you have a severe case of it and you swallowed several cups of it or you made tea or coffee with tainted water or boiled food with the water.
I had a very mild case because I caught it from swimming and might have swallowed a bit of water. I can even remember Only lasted about a week of mild diarrhea, maybe one bad day but that was it.
I’m always careful in my part of the country and always watch where I get my water and how safe it all is. Swimming in my lake is never a problem. We just happened to have a family of beavers move in one summer. A local indigenous trapper manages the area and got rid of the beavers. And it’s not an inhumane thing about it either. I’m indigenous myself and I grew up eating the beaver that my dad trapped when I was young. Beaver are just managed now because of issues like giardia and places where people can get sick from it. The surrounding area where I’m from is filled with beaver everywhere else.
I would have loved to have one of these a few years ago. I have a wilderness cottage and on the lake we’re on, it was affected by a family of beavers who cause beaver fever, Giardiasis. It’s a small lake so it was a problem and I got infected with it. Nothing serious or long lasting but when I went to the doctor, he asked for a series of stool samples to confirm diagnosis.
The dutch toilet would have been great for that. Instead I had to perform acrobatics and weird positions and use plastic wrap and cardboard and paper to try to make a clean collection … and there were a few accidents along the way.
I’m dreading this. I need to do the mail in your shit prostate test in the next couple years if not now. I’ve got hemorrhoids so I am very scared of anything going up my ass. Got any tips from what you learned?
Can’t say I enjoy these conversations but I know what it means to have to do it.
If I had to do it again, I’d recommend doing your business in a large garbage bag that you place in a bucket or bowl (so that it doesn’t spill). The larger the garbage bag the better. Saving garbage bags doesn’t matter anyway because you won’t be doing this too often. Once everything is in the bag, then you can take out the bag and get in to more easily collect your sample. I know you only need a small bit but it is very hard to try to do stuff over a toilet bowl with plastic, containers or whatever and not contaminate things in the water, your hand or anything else. I tried four or five different ways and always made a mess. Better to just do it all in a garbage bag. Then once you are done, wrap up the whole bag, seal it and throw it in the dumpster outside your house.
I had to do a stool sample a couple years ago. One of the worst experiences of my life I’d rather just die
Brutal. I hear Giardia is nothing but suffering
If you have a severe case of it and you swallowed several cups of it or you made tea or coffee with tainted water or boiled food with the water.
I had a very mild case because I caught it from swimming and might have swallowed a bit of water. I can even remember Only lasted about a week of mild diarrhea, maybe one bad day but that was it.
I’m always careful in my part of the country and always watch where I get my water and how safe it all is. Swimming in my lake is never a problem. We just happened to have a family of beavers move in one summer. A local indigenous trapper manages the area and got rid of the beavers. And it’s not an inhumane thing about it either. I’m indigenous myself and I grew up eating the beaver that my dad trapped when I was young. Beaver are just managed now because of issues like giardia and places where people can get sick from it. The surrounding area where I’m from is filled with beaver everywhere else.