Taken by Ambulance to ER | Travel in Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA 

Malaysia is one of the top destination for medical tourism, top notch services with competitive price. europeans, middle eastern, people from neighbouring countries opted to seek treatment here instead of their local hospitals.

About 10 years ago my younger sister got really sick after a work trip in Manila, she contracted some kind of airborne virus that caused her white blood cells went down to dangerously low level. She was hospitalized in one of the private hospital in KL for more than a week while the doctors tried to figure out the cause and solutions and that got us all worried. Fortunately they did help her to recover and she’s doing fine to today.

That was unpleasant! So sorry you had to go through so much discomfort! But very glad that you got to experience Malaysia’s excellent private medical care and that you are back to your normal self in such a short time. Take care and enjoy the rest of your holiday ❤

Gleneagles is a private hospitals and its very expensive for locals but its good to see you're so cool about the trip here despite what happened to you. In general the food here is pretty safe.

Hospital looked amazing. No stretchers in the hallways with people waiting for rooms. No equipment piled sky high in the hallways. Clean spacious room. I’m glad you got great medical care. I’m sure much better than here.

take care guys, foreigner tends to get sick because of foods because they are not used to it unlike local. My advise is do not consume too many local foods at one time until you body get familiar with it.

It's good to know that all is well and good, so that you guys can continue to enjoy the food paradise that is on offer in around town. Take care and enjoy your stay in Malaysia!

I am a Malaysian and I still only eat food that is cooked hot when I order it, never precooked food . I also make sure that desert and sweets are properly covered esp. if they are sold by the roadside where dust is stirred up by passing traffic and there are flies . Also make sure you drink bottled drinks , it's much safer .

Glad that you have recovered well at Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Thank you very much for your lovely comment of the hospital and sharing your experience. Do write to us.

This is just my opinion as a vet, perhaps your pain was caused by gastric acid that couldn't be neutralize by your bile juice. Since you already removed your bile sac. The bile sac function is to stored the bile produce overtime by the liver. Since it is already being removed, The produced bile was drain out into the intestine and couldn't be stored to be use when acid level exceed the normal level. Sometime when you eat certain food like high in protein such as meat, the stomach produce more digestive acid to digest the protein. When the digested food with gastric acid flow into the small intestine, the bile will be secreted and mix to reduce the acid level before entering the small intestine. If the bile is not enough, the acid will be still there and cause pain, since the wall of small intestine is not designed to accept acidic environment. My opinion is, you have to identify what food that you have eaten before that cause the pain. Is it food that need high acidic level to digest? If it is tally or fit into your stomach pain experience, then perhaps your should avoid or reduce the amount of food that need high level of acid to be digested. Hope this will help.

I am really glad you got a good care in the hospital.....please take care of your health....welcome to Malaysia.

Happy n glad to hear that you were treated well by de doctor n nurses… plus the good n clean facilities provided….. Hope you are shaping better now ….. enjoy your stay.

I am glad tht u r feeling much better now and enjoy the rest of your stay in Malaysia. Take care

The advice to eat only hot cooked food is good because it will minimise the risk of picking up unfamiliar bacteria. I've noticed that Indian (!) visitors to Australia tend to get stomach upsets for the same reason. I suggest you, and any traveller reading this, equip yourselves with a couple of bottles of activated charcoal tablets. If you get food poisoning take the dose suggested on the bottle. Activated charcoal absorbs the toxins produced by the unfamiliar bacteria. Note: Do not take activated charcoal shortly after taking medication because the charcoal will absorb the medication.

Malaysia has good private hospitals with great specialists. Service is excellent and you don't have to worry when you get ill. Welcome to Malaysia, "Selamat datang"

Hearing about your symptoms literally describes exactly what happened to me on end of April this year… it was truly a horrible excruciating pain that is hard to described, with waves of as you mentioned times were losing conscious felt eminent but never happened due to the tense pain accompanied with diarrhea and vomiting on my side. Unfortunately I wasn’t so lucky for the first 5 days for i was going to the ER at a near public hospital… they would discard me shortly after waiting about 3-5 hours just to see the doctor because the blood test would turn out normal and I wasn’t vomiting blood or anything of that sort or so they said. This happened 3 times with my visits to them which ended with the last time by them thinking I’m being paranoid and even tried to refer me to psychologist since my blood test was still coming back normal…… after having enough I went to Sunway private hospital, got hospitalized there for 6 days till my health got better and then on the end of may got to do a scope with biopsy after being on anti acid meds and painkillers for about two weeks since the doctor felt it was needed to recover enough to do the scope. They found out that my stomach from the start of it till the first part of my intestines after the end of my stomach all had mild chronic inflammation. With medication, avoiding acidic & spicy food for 5 months, i got so much better that i can eat normally again without worrying. I recommend you to stay away from acidic and spicy food for a while, and you might recover more faster if your stomach is inflamed, though a scope might be needed if things didn’t improve. Wish you the best.

Gleaneagles Kuala Lumpur supposed to be one of the most expensive private hospitals in Malaysia and yet is still much cheaper than any medical institutions in the States or even Canada AND the UK.

Health care.. The beat in the world.. Welcome to malaysia

How scary! I’m glad you’re ok.

I'd been to many private hospitals here in many states of Malaysia.. the Southern, Mahkota, SJMC, SMC, Asia Columbia, etc. ... either in my own health issues or some friends or relatives but never Gleneagles. They're all excellent. Good to hear your review. Obviously, the alertness and preparedness in your husband is is such a fortune. Lucky you 😊

Be careful and understand what your body can take. As malaysian, i also avoiding very hot and spicy food, too oily, too much spices, too much black/white pepper etc.

Go with familiarised meals n soft meals for fast recovery...hope all goes well n enjoy 🇲🇾

Selamat datang ke Malaysia, semuga kesihatan bertambah baik dan dpt menikmati pelbagai makanan tempatan yang sedap sedap

I'm in no position to give any medical tips, but I would share my experience in regards how me and my family handling flare up incidents. These flare up that you mentioned probably also known as inflammation. That is why it so painful. Inflammation can occur anywhere in our body for many reasons, injury food poisoning etc. As simple as it may sound, we normally use turmeric to bring down these flare up. Yes, you heard it right. Just turmeric. A simple home kitchen cooking ingredient. But if you're traveling I bet you don't carry such item around. What for anyway. However you can get these turmeric in the form of capsule which widely available in pharmacy or healhcare store in here, sold as supplement. The fact that these turmeric was packed and sold in such a way, evidently it is a common usage for some group of people in Malaysia. And in our experience, it works!! Yeay. After all it is not a drug or chemical, but simple cooking ingredient which help a certain medical condition, so i think it is safe to recommend you to have these turmeric supplement ready at hand. Hope this would help. 😅

During rainy season please avoid stall foods due to there are many flies and in some cases the water is contaminated with bacteria from water on the road and the food exposed too long and being touched by flies.. find s stall that you really sure it practices hygienic all the time. Hope you enjoy your stay here.. food poisoning is something must be avoided. May your family blessed.

Glad you are well. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

KL hospitals are great, top notch. I stayed in Pantai Hospital for 2 weeks, 1 week on critical ward.

As a university student currently studying Microbiology, your encounter is a typical case of "Traveller's stomach/diarrhea". Different region have different microflora / bacteria population, when a new type of bacteria enter your gut, the microflora inside you is disrupted and because it's new to the immune system, the immune system may response with a series of unpleasent actions like vomitting and diarrhea. However, for the locals or natives, because their gut microflora and/or immune system have adapted to these kind of disease-causing bacteria since young, it's relatively harmless to them, their immune system or their own bacteria population in their guts might even able to fight off these harmful bacteria at the very beginning without causing any unpleasent reaction. Yes, you read correctly, a bacteria population can kill a foreign bacteria. Of course, if the contamination of the food is substaintial enough, or it's an especially pathogenic strain of bacteria, locals or natives will still fallen sick after taken the contaminated food. For your case, the preventive measures is basically what have been described by other comments, only eat from sanitary places and avoid street food generally (especially you seems like to have a sensitive digestive system), and also to make sure the food is properly cooked and the utensils were properly washed. About the comparison between government hospital and private hospital in Malaysia mentioned in other comments, I would always suggest foreigners especially tourists to go to private hospital if they encounter any medical problems. Not that the government hospital is worse than private hospital in terms of expertises, but both kind of hospital have very different goal and therefore have different atmosphere. Government hospital is more affordability-oriented while private hospital is more service-oriented. Government hospital's goal is to ensure most of the Malaysian citizens do not need to worry about medical bills when they encounter a medical emergency or when they are suffering from chronic disease that require constant medication. The private hospital on the other hand is to ensure their patients have premium and hotel- or resort-liked experience as long as you pay. Of course for the government hospital, it's main downside is longer waiting time if you are not a emergency or life-threatening case and have to share space with other patients in a larger ward. But since the affordability part of government hospital is only enjoyable by Malaysian citizens and the foreigners have to pay the full price, it's advisable for foreigners to visit private hospital instead of government hospital. This will also help relieve some burden from the government hospital and you get to enjoy a hotel like treatment with slightly more expensive price in private hospital. Luckily for you guys, the government have also put a price cap on private hospital's treatment fee by law (even the private hospital can't escape government control!), so that's why they are saying Malaysia is a medical tourism destination, if you guys have any other medical problems again (hopefully not) and want to save some cost, then you guys are welcome to come back to Malaysia again to seek treatment at a private hospital.

When I went to Cambodia, I wanted to eat their local food and I bought this salad at the food court inside Aeon Mall. The salad comes with mini raw crab. I had a minor case of food poisoning after that.

You are lucky to enter a malaysian hospital as english were widely spoken here.

Speedy recovery and all the best

So far, everyone I spoke to in Singapore who had been to India, told me that they had food poisoning there. A case of an Asian visiting another Asian country 😱 and still could not handle the food

I used to go to Columbia hospital Dr Amir traced i had a few mm stroke..Tq Allah

A Malaysian living in Indonesia...20+ year now. If am really hungry or is stucked in the city I do eat out...once in the blue moon. I prefer to cook and dine at home. The problem is, I will always had diahrea eating the street food. *Food hygiene: Food display are not properly covered; flies owh my gosh fat-blue!!!

Glad you're doing well....While visiting Penang, Malaysia about a week ago, I also went to ER due to stomach pain, diarrhea, throwing up....diagnosis food poisoning 😣

You had yr gallbladder removed done so I m not surprised tht yr digest system are rather sensitive. I do understand becos my husband & daughter had the same problem. So they are very careful now. It take times to be cure of them.

I did not watch the full video but I guess language should not be a problem since English is kinda common especially at hospital? Glad to know you're fine now, so please continue and enjoy your journey in Malaysia!

Always eat hot food regardless hotel or street.

Hope whatever illness you have will no longer trouble you anymore.Health is so important.isn't it?Take Care.

OMGoodness! Becoming ill in another country is a fear of mine. If I were wealthy I would in theory love to live in Venice BUT there is no hospital nearby, I would have to travel to a hospital via boat, etc. Am I understanding correctly that if outside of the US and need a hospital I should look specifically for a Private one? I've never considered that at home. I'm glad you're better and that the Lord has blessed you with a good husband. Love you guys!

Parasites in cambodia is from drinking water. Please watch vlog 'vlogging a dead horse'. He explained it. As he was sick as well many years ago. And on his return to cambodia recently he recap the issue on his vlog. His name is sean (british).

Im so sorry you have to endure that here in this country while on holiday. Please do take care of your health and mind the food quality before consume. Anyways please do enjoy your time here.

Had my gallbladder removed. 2 years later I had a bout of acute pancreatitis. Worst pain I’ve ever had in my life. Had a stone and sludge in a bile duct. Something to consider possibly.

about the cheese. Malaysian are very obsessed with putting cheese on everything. maybe next time go to places where the food are freshly made. hope you're feeling better. enjoy your stay

I hv polyps in my gall bladder. But no crystal there. Need to monitor every 6 months. I take milk thistle to help me to get bile salt out of my liver (flushing of liver). This flushing will dilute the crystal forming which can get stuck in the bile duct causing bloody pain like a friend of mine who removed the gall bladder recently.

your husband love you soo much...we can see from his eye

NEVER try to loose weight in Malaysia. I know, l tried it for 30 years and still failed. The food here is horribly cheap, diversified and delicious 😁❗

I suppose a little bit of personal experience will add to your life without a gall bladder. The symptoms you experience is common to all who had their gall bladder removed. So you have to take extra precautions. My eldest daughter too is one among you. My mother had her gall bladder removed when it was too late ie , when it turned cancerous. Now it's my turn. I browsed the net, after I found out I had stone in the gall bladder and discovered that Homeopathy had a solution. I went to a Senior Homeopathy doctor here in Sri Lanka and underwent a treatment for short duration. No surgery was involved. I still retain my GB with no symptoms for a 75 year old person.

Should try the air con food courts first to test your stomach. Then if ok can move to the street food. I had food poisoning in India but my other colleague was fine even though we ate the same food. Only difference was she has been to India multiple times before

welcome² you arrr in malaysian culture shock food in malaysia delicious yumy² you arr try guys food malaysian onvlog local in malaysian i so happy foryou guys 🇲🇾🇲🇾🤝🇱🇷🇱🇷

With no gall bladder ignore oily food. No choice.

I got Food poisoning from eating at a roadside stall in Malaysia. I was hospitalised for 3 days. The level of hygiene is appalling at some of these stalls.

theres one time when i staying in hospital feels like staying in hotel.. it doesnt feel like hospital.. silly younger me..

Glad that you ok 👍

Actually there is a private hospital right where you are staying. It's Sunway Velocity Hospital if I'm not mistaken but not too sure if it's already operational where you had the attack. My office is just opposite to where it is located.

I've exp it, same as what you said..sweating,blackout vision, and weird noise,,usually due to diarrhea/stomach poisoning

Sorry for your discomfort. However, do note that most of the time the problem is the ICE. Ice cubes are made by filtered water and not boiled. In most tropical countries, ice is the culprit.

HOW lucky you were to be in Maylasia!! Glad your feeling better. How much was it?

Don't eat spicy food and oily food. You also cannot drink coffee or tea if your stomach hurt.

Please check yr hba1c Cholesterol HB pressure..so you can enjoy yr life ...any numbness see yr doctor

Hope you will get well soon & stay save :)

Get well soon my dear Mem

Hope u pay fair price...if not, please donate to a charity

Thats the thing. You know its funny when we are too particular abt the existent of bad bacteria, the more we are prone to get sick. Its hard to explain.

With the gallbladder removed, usually you'll need to be careful with the sort of food you're taking.

Have you ever heard of Kanak- Kanak Hospital in KL. I have a British friend who had a couple of brain surgeries there when he was living there 5 years ago. I never knew how good that hospital is. Maybe some locals can give me a feedback? I’m just curious .

Gleneagles Ampang is a 5 star hotel with a hospital in it 😉….I used to supply German made rehabilitation equipment to them….currently living in Australia….Have you been to a Government Hospital in Malaysia?

Stay safe.

Street food in Malaysia n Bangkok not suitable for everyone. Ingredients like cooking oil , sauce n hygienic handling process is important for us to try. I never ever like to try street food at all. Prefere cafes, hotels n prominent , shopping malls foodcourt.

country with a lots of food made us loosing control, these kind of attraction will also needed a lots of good hospitals to get vaccinated.

How much did it cost you? Is medical treatment really expensive over there without insurance?

Either food poisoning or allergies. Better eat in proper / clean premises.

Ya bewarw of salads and cucumber!!..the chopper board is the culprit ..so abstain from uncooked item from the road vendour as well as locall restaurant..Mamak restaurant..cause those foreign bangla workers handling the food makes me very

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Just dont eat too much on Malaysia bcoz 4 those who r not really familiar with spicy foods tend to has stomach cramp or aches.I myself tho Malaysian sometimes has *spicyfood issue* too ✌️😅.But dont worry, Malaysia is amongst the best in the world in Medical services.

So what was your diagnosis and what medications did they give you??

Ensure no crystal stuck in bile duct.

Did you test H.Pylori? Especially if you are Blood Type B

long live green tea!!!

Take care

I am sorry that you have to endure such. Most likely you went to mamak. Next time eat in shopping center.

Hi,how much this cost you, what insurance you used

Hope you will get well soon..#takecare #statsafe

I think Malaysian eat cheese more than Dutch. Almost everything with grated cheese on Malaysian food.

How was the fees? Expensive?

That’s why even as a Malaysian I rarely want to buy or eat street food or roadside food in Malaysia.

Sunway Velocity Mall...

oh God. Diagnosis?

Take care. That is not fun at all

Ct scan or ultra sound result?

Next time try eating banana and drink hot milo

Maybe just small mini tip, I think as you always walking, its better to keep your jewelry in a Hotel's Safe Box!!! Till you go back to your home, just for a precaution!!!! Because i NEVER SEE A FEMALE OR MALE TOURISTSIN MALAYSIA WEARING JEWELRIES, TO KEEP YOU SAFE FROM BE TARGETED BY CROOKS.

if this thing happen in america, the cost must be above 10k usd...

Omg ... you went to one of the worst privte hospital in KL...

Maybe you have liver problem...take care

Did you have the fake vaxx.... if so u may want to detox

Third world country huh.. He.. He.. No wonder why to many indonesia came to malaysia for their hospital healt care..

Christmas in Malaysia?