2. Abdominal Pain
occurs in giardia infection. When it comes to abdominal pain, a person may believe it’s a number of things, especially for women. For women, they may think that they are having menstrual cramps or having contractions if she is pregnant.
For example, a person may eat at a restaurant where the server didn’t wash his or her hands and then served the person. The server puts the person at risk of getting giardia. The same scenario applies to a cook who cooks with no gloves and never washes his or her hands. They are putting not just the people that are eating the food at risk, but their co-workers as well.
Abdominal pain for giardia may range from mild to severe. Over-the-counter medications may work short-term, but the only way to get to the root of the problem is by seeing a doctor get some lab work done and get a prescription for antibiotics.