Supernurse, funny you say that. I've been to India twice and never fell sick. When you went there (I assume you've been there and had a bad experience), did you stick to eating at hotels or did you eat by the side of the road?

Snowyowl, I think this is quite close to Kumarakom. Kumarakom is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to. I stayed at two different places, The Taj Garden Retreat and Coconut Lagoon. Personally, I found the Coconut Lagoon to be heaven on Earth. Can't wait to go back there :)

Immodium is a pill that you take to stop diarrhoea. I did not have any bad experiences there. In Kerala there are a lot of non-vegetarians, so I made a call that eating meat was probably safe. I only ate at hotels, though (not necessarily the 5 star ones, we ate at some cheap hotels as well). When I went to Delhi, though, I decided to eat vegetarian only (not hard in India as there are so many yummy vegetarian dishes) and, once more, had no problems whatsoever.