Update

The husband has been sick with some kinda stomach bug that has been troubling him for the alst 11 days.

did a whole range of tests on him and they all came back normal.

Seems like he is suffering a major bout of gastritis. From what i understand there are these major infections going around in Bangalore and in Canada. Haven't heard anyone else in Cairo who has had this currently though.

The only solution seems to be an extremely light diet of fresh fruits, raw vegetable and fresh fruit juices.

Hope he gets back to normal soon. With his strict diet, I also seem to be losing weight, which is a good thing :)