Climbed back up the waterfall after becoming ill

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Claim: Bear, supposedly feeling very ill from drinking contaminated water, goes back up the waterfall.

In the episode Costa Rican Rain Forest, Bear claims to have become very ill from drinking contaminated water that he thought was clean, and backtracks to find a tree that produces a stomach-calming latex[1]. People with dysentery are laid out flat, not climbing up waterfalls; the concept is generally ridiculed on backpacking/survival forums.(example)

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Oppose: They never specifically say he re-climbed the waterfall.

Support: If he could go around, why wouldn't he do that in the first place?

Oppose: He never said he had dysentery. He said clearly all he had was a simple tummy bug.

Support: There is no such thing as a "tummy bug". Diseases from contaminated water all have names. The most common one in Central America is amoebic dysentery. If you think other contaminated water diseases are any better, think again. Would you rather have cholera, which used to be a major killer? What about giardia, which can give you violent diarrhea for weeks (half a year if lactose intolerant) and generally plague you for years, causing you to lose a third of your bodyweight? Really -- which waterborne "tummy bug" do you think is tame enough that you can climb up a waterfall after being infected?

Oppose: Not everyone who gets diarrhea has aemobic dysentery, cholera or other bacterial infections. It's not unreasonable that you might regain your equilibrium after a long bout of puking.

Support: It's not necessarily the puking that causes the problems with equilibrium; it's systemic and has more to do with the cause of the puking, not just the symptom (the puking).

Oppose: Bear Grylls:"I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE DONE WRONG, I'VE HARDLY EATEN ANYTHING BEEN SO CAREFUL WHERE I DRINK WATER FROM, BUT I JUST HOPE IT'S NOT DYSENTERY. FOR THE FIRST TIME I'M FEELING JUST COLD AND SHIVERY AS WELL AND THAT'S NEVER A GOOD SIGN WHEN YOU ARE SOMEWHERE AS HOT AS THIS. DYSENTERY IS A SEVERE FOR OF DIARRHEA I DON'T THINK I HAVE THIS I THINK I JUST PICKED UP A TUMMY BUG PROBABLY FROM TOUCHING BACTERIA OR ANIMAL CRAP BY MISTAKE, I'M PRETTY SURE THE WATER I DRINK YESTERDAY WAS CLEAN BUT ITS A REMINDER TO BE EVEN MORE CAREFUL AS WATER CAN CARRY ALL SORTS OF VIRUS AND MICROBES" You'll have to try a lot harder to bash the show, Bear is the 1st to say it was most probably not from the water. By tummy-bug i just think he's trying to say something-not-that-nasty-thats-not-a-killer. Just this sunday 11/22 i was just fine, start feeling a little bit sick and in 1 hour i had the worst diarrhea in my life plus vomits every 15 minutes adding to that fever, hear pain and urinary infection all at once and 2 days later I'm good as new and i am pretty sure Bear is a lot tougher that me. Let's not forget Bear holds several guiness records, are those fake too? When you climb Everest maybe you'll get some credit. And what if the guy cheats a little bit? He has wife and kids, in my view sure some stuff is fabricated, and it's only natural the film crew is ahead of him sometimes that does not mean cheating, i see him do things that came with great risk. It's not like the show is science fiction.

Observation: By his own standard, the person who claims to have had the "worst diarrhea in my life plus vomits every 15 minutes adding to that fever, hear pain and urinary infection all at once and 2 days later I'm good as new" is not credible because he has not climbed Everest.