Is the content of the meals different to what you'd normally eat at home ? If I eat low carb mostly but grab cheap carbs for bushwalking it has that effect, mostly because of the change in gut flora - it can change a lot based on your eating habits.
I assume you serve the food hot and can rule out other contamination ?
I really don't know, just that some meals don't suit me very well. So I avoid them.
Back Country makes me fart.
Could it be that the fat/oil content in your food is going rancid (oxidizing) while you are dehydrating it/storing? I've heard that can cause some people some trouble.
So you can make a curry or dahl at home with fresh ingredients and the exact same recipe, when dehydrated/rehydrated will cause problems during a walk?
What if you made that recipe from fresh ingredients in the bush?
What if you served it dehydrated/rehydrated at home?
Do you add a bought sauce Drew? Sounds more like a built intolerance (ie. to preservatives/colourings etc) if others don't experience the same? I have noticed these are becoming increasingly common (or diagnosed).
Id say its likely that what ever causes her to have a sensitive stomach/discomfort in her everyday life is the issue. Its just accelerating/more prominent when walking because the body is under greater stress/working harder/have a hipbelt pushing against stomach etc.
Another aspect to consider.. Does your partner go to the toilet during a trip? Many people have problems passing poo while on a hiking trip. Sometimes its the tightness of the hipbelt causing compression, other times its physiological (harder to go to the toilet without a seat so your mind and body avoids it). If she is not going to the toilet regularly that could also be a contributor.
I don't think its been mentioned but could it be as simple as the difference in water? Town water vs 'wild'
walking can also accelerate peristalsis and that might mean food moving through the system faster than normal. I'd try eating a dehy meal at home just to see what happens. That might remove a variable.
gayet wrote:I don't think its been mentioned but could it be as simple as the difference in water? Town water vs 'wild' ? I'm not talking about contaminated water taken from streams but rather an intolerance/inability to handle water that has not been through the town water treatment processes and so has a different set of chemicals, minerals, and other elements in it than her gut is equipped to handle?
Trying rehy using water at home could answer that question.
If so, and it isn't too much trouble, serve both the fresh and dehydrated versions. Maybe not at the same time since then it would be easier to tell them apart. Perhaps on different nights. It would be best if you didn't know which was which either but that might be difficult to arrange. Hopefully you have an exceptional "poker face".
gayet wrote:
I don't think its been mentioned but could it be as simple as the difference in water? Town water vs 'wild' ? I'm not talking about contaminated water taken from streams but rather an intolerance/inability to handle water that has not been through the town water treatment processes and so has a different set of chemicals, minerals, and other elements in it than her gut is equipped to handle?
Trying rehy using water at home could answer that question.
This is worth checking out. I know of somebody who got violently ill every time she drunk water from a good clean creek out bush, and nobody else ever had any problems with drinking from the same source at the same time. I guess it could also have other different effects of different people.
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I'm late in posting this but I wonder if you are eating commercially dried fruit on your hikes, and in particular apricot? Sulphur dioxide (preservative 220) can commonly have this effect for some people- a very particular odour. The preservative is used to keep the orange colour. I believe it's also used in other dried fruits. A simple test would be to try organic apricots instead. It worked instantly for my son and I (curiously only one of our kids has this problem).
Good luck!
Zzoe wrote:Hi
I'm late in posting this but I wonder if you are eating commercially dried fruit on your hikes, and in particular apricot? Sulphur dioxide (preservative 220) can commonly have this effect for some people- a very particular odour. The preservative is used to keep the orange colour. I believe it's also used in other dried fruits. A simple test would be to try organic apricots instead. It worked instantly for my son and I (curiously only one of our kids has this problem).
Good luck!
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