5 Reasons You Can't Poop When You Travel, According to a Gut Doctor

5 Reasons You Can't Poop When You Travel, According to a Gut Doctor

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Keep studying so that you can continue to exercise regularly during the holidays and other times of the year when you are away from home.

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5 Reasons You Can't Poop When You Travel According to a Gut Doctor

Karla Walsh is a Des Moines-based freelance writer editor Level 1 Sommelier former fitness instructor and personal trainer who combines her love of food and drink with her passion for fitness. (Or at least she tries to!) Her writing has appeared in AllRecipes Runner's World Shape and Fitness Magazines and EatingWell.com Shape.com BHG.com ReadersDigest.com TheHealthy.com Prevention.com WomensHealthMag.com and more.

Every year around the holidays my immediate family travels to my oldest sister’s house (since she’s a mother of two and an ER doctor she often works on or around Thanksgiving and Christmas) to break bread count our blessings and celebrate the season. For the past three years and every time this happens my stomach gets upset. After about 12 hours I start to feel a little nauseous. And within 24 hours I know something is wrong.

I always thought it was just me until I told my mom and she confessed she had similar symptoms. This is far from uncommon confirms Will Bulsiewicz MD a gastroenterologist based in Charleston South Carolina and the New York Times bestselling author of Fiber Fueled. Whether we’re away from family for a few hours or on vacation halfway around the world our guts aren’t always doing as well as the rest of us.