[SallyintNorth]

I don't think it's a wind up. 
Because it's outside your realm of experience or comfort zone doesn't make it fantasy.

Au contraire, I’ve worked in a fair few far flung places myself in my younger days and have many stories to tell, some of them relating to hygiene (or lack of) and having the squits overseas where the loos are holes in the floor (and I’ve never been able to squat :/)

I also studied Comparative Pathology as part of my degree in Biology, so am aware through that of some of the more exotic pests and parasites that might affect an international traveller.

With the litigious society we have today, most employers sending staff overseas are scrupulous about medical care, providing medicals, regular health checks, medical insurance and the like.  So it rings very untrue that such a person would feel the need to trust in a UK-based pharmacist’s knowledge of his or her likely parasitic load and the treatment for it.

And as to the allusion to Basildon Bond or other writing papers, anyone who had actually done any even very mundane classified work would not mention or allude to that.

So, I maintain, it’s a wind up, and I’d lock the thread.

[InternationalNumpty]

Internationalnumpty    what are you doing round the world?    what is your connection to smallholding?

Working to pay the mortgage on a little smallholding I call home...

[InternationalNumpty]

Still think it’s a wind-up.

If only.  In my dreams I win the Euromillions, can give up the travel and retire to be a full time smallholder...

[InternationalNumpty]

Still think it’s a wind-up.

A non-smallholding new member and    ?


Perhaps we should lock this?

What gave you the impression I'm not a smallholder?  The reason I'm a new member is I've only just been introduced to the site by a friend I've been staying with for a couple of days.  I'm in deep  at the moment as I just erroneously posted from their account when I logged in and forgot to switch to my account before responding... although I've now deleted those posts and responded from my own.

Why do you say I'm stirring the  ?  Bit of an unfriendly attitude to a new member there Fleecewife.  If I'm really not welcome then just say so and I won't bother coming back!

[InternationalNumpty]

Still think it’s a wind-up.

And no other posts under his profile, yes lock it, it's stupid.

I don't think it's a wind up. 
Because it's outside your realm of experience or comfort zone doesn't make it fantasy. I can feel the OP's frustration when actually  seeking help and constantly coming up against a brick wall. I have encountered similar ignorance when consulting my doctor about a sheep acquired illness and actually being told to ask my vet about treatment because the doctor didn't have the knowledge and couldn't be bothered to find out!
Not all health professionals know everything   That's why I said that a well researched individual is more likely to find the answer than a poorly motivated professional.
All the information is there on the internet if you bother to spend the time and I'm sure IN is just as capable of looking it up as anyone else. He/she doesn't sound like a complete moron, so should be credited with enough commonsense not to do anything stupid.
By the way IN - I too read that the dog dose for such as Panacur is suitable for humans also.   But DO get it verified by a doctor (who will have read the same article) or it is most likely have dire consequences.

Thanks Landroverroy.  Indeed all the medications I mentioned originally are used to treat humans for worms in various parts of the world.  Whether they're all licensed here is a different question and I know from previous experience that my GP often turns green when I go to see them... even the company medic gets a run for his money at the routine annual medicals when asking about the usual 'how much alcohol; tobacco; drugs' etc...  Given that in some locations recreational drugs are legal, but still banned by company policy and that they have to be careful how they test because some drugs can leave traces for 6 weeks when you've only been at work for 4 of them means they don't always get an easy run.  However, even the medic did a double take when I asked if Dectomax needle sticks constituted 'recreational abuse of drugs'.  Having failed my previous drugs test for drinking too much water (yes, you read that right) because I was pulled in for a test just after I'd emptied my bladder and didn't want to be stuck there for another 7 hours so basically drained the water barrel to get it over and done with I think he had to go research what Dectomax was.  Clearly I didn't get a big enough dose from the needle stick to deal with the worms... but I'm wondering how much is left in the bottle at this point!

[InternationalNumpty]

I don't think it's a wind up. 
Because it's outside your realm of experience or comfort zone doesn't make it fantasy.

Au contraire, I’ve worked in a fair few far flung places myself in my younger days and have many stories to tell, some of them relating to hygiene (or lack of) and having the squits overseas where the loos are holes in the floor (and I’ve never been able to squat :/)

I also studied Comparative Pathology as part of my degree in Biology, so am aware through that of some of the more exotic pests and parasites that might affect an international traveller.

With the litigious society we have today, most employers sending staff overseas are scrupulous about medical care, providing medicals, regular health checks, medical insurance and the like.  So it rings very untrue that such a person would feel the need to trust in a UK-based pharmacist’s knowledge of his or her likely parasitic load and the treatment for it.

And as to the allusion to Basildon Bond or other writing papers, anyone who had actually done any even very mundane classified work would not mention or allude to that.

So, I maintain, it’s a wind up, and I’d lock the thread.

My choice to talk to the pharmacist on one of the odd occasions when I'm home for a reasonable time period was driven by the fact that my last 2 trips were to locations where my company didn't have a medical base on site.  I didn't want to have another trip to a location where the medics were to delay coming home and I'd have preferred to deal with it before I'm back on the road.

The Basildon Bond comment was meant to be humour, but clearly that's a bit dry for some people on this site.  What makes you think my work is classified?  Just because I work internationally in mostly inhospitable locations doesn't make me a spy although the post to which I was responding was clearly alluding to that possibility - hence my attempt at humour.

[SallyintNorth]

Well, if it’s not a wind up, I hope the company medics get you sorted out.

[Womble]

Bonkers, the pair of you! 

Do please hang around though, Numpty. I've been the only one on here for ages, and it gets kinda lonely! 

[landroverroy]

Would it be too much to ask that those of you that have been so incorrect in your judgements, and so needlessly unwelcome in your treatment of a genuine newcomer, actually apologised?

[landroverroy]

All's well that ends well then.