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I have a strange story and sorry if it bores you but I need to explain what has been happening to me before I get to my question...

I am Australian and have been living in China for the last 8 months and have been sick for the last 8 months. It seems that China wants to make me sick :-) The unfortunate part of my situation is that where I live there really isnt any doctors that can test me for anything and I will be going back to Aus in two months and have all my appointments booked already.

Since being here I have had continual bouts of diarrea, constipation, constant bloating with pain, a few nights with vomitting and just feeling sick all the time. I have been to the doctor here and all they said was they thought I had giardia (but couldn't test me for it) and gave me tablets - this happened twice and still I am sick. They did give me a blood test the second time to see if I had any infection in my body and the results came back normal.

After all of this I very unwillingly (until my Aus trip) self diagnosed myself with IBS and have tried to only eat soluble fibre, which has made a notacable difference but I am still far from being ok and due to me being so sick for such a long time my immune system has dropped off and is virtually non-existant so I am catching every strain of the flu going around.

Not a happy go lucky story I know, my question is: the only vitamin/suppliment that I seem to be able to get until I go home that would help build up my immune system is Spirulina I have not taken it for a few months because the last time I took it I had one of my nights in the bathroom extremely sick, but I dont know if it was the Spirulina or the food that I had eaten during the day which I now know was a very bad combination if you have IBS. Do you know if Spirulina is bad for IBS or benefical? Or do you have any other suggestions on how I can increase my immune system?

Thanks and sorry for the long story.

Julia

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