Travel Dispatch: How to Avoid Stomach Trouble When You Travel
Plus: How to choose a great restaurant abroad.
Travel Dispatch
March 18, 2026

For many, foreign cuisine is a highlight of travel — maybe even the reason to plan a trip. For others, especially those with allergies or sensitive stomachs, it can be a pain in more ways than one.

Here are some tips for planning meals on a trip, from choosing a good restaurant to avoiding tummy trouble.

An illustration of a person wearing a collared shirt and patterned cardigan eating tapas-style dishes at a table with a glass of wine. Behind the person is a city that looks like Barcelona, with scenes of Park Güell and the Sagrada Família cathedral.

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An illustration of three people in front of a scene of street food vendors standing at carts with umbrellas. The traveler in the foreground is drinking from a bottle of water. The traveler behind her is happily eating a sandwich. The traveler in the background, seen between the other two people, is holding his stomach with one hand and gripping a medicine bottle with a cross on it in the other.

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How to avoid stomach trouble

An illustration shows a woman walking down a path wearing a big sun hat and pulling a suitcase. The path leads through stalks of wheat, a herd of cows and trees bearing fruit.

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