TRAVEL MEDICINE
Adventures await, make them good ones!
How to stay healthy and enjoy your dream trip.
Come talk to us about what vaccinations will keep you from getting sick abroad. We will look at your itinerary and tailor a plan for you. you need to come home as healthy as you left! Start with some background research https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel, then ask our receptionist for the pre-appointment questionnaire and book a travel health consult with one of our doctors.
Mosquito Protection
We are a yellow fever accredited vaccination site
We can tailor a plan for malaria prevention for you depending on where you are going and for how long
You can still get sick, even if you take your antimalarials! Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika are all mosquito born and we can’t vaccinate for. We can advise on and supply mosquito protective options.
Adventure Travel
Trekking at high altitudes, diving, even flying put your body under stresses that it isn’t use to.
Your blood binds less oxygen at low pressure and heart disease and lung diseases can suddenly become symptomatic.
Do you know what to do if you develop altitude sickness with oedema of your brain stopping you thinking clearly. There are treatments available, but the safest thing is to descend!
Aid Work
There are particular challenges to working and living in third world conditions to help.
Diseases of overcrowding and poverty like cholera are unknown in the 1st world like. Many of these are vaccine preventable.
What if you yourself become sick or injured in an area of high HIV rates, are there sterile needles and instruments available for your treatment? We can supply these for you to have as a back up plan for your own use.
Cruising
Foreign ports, Galla dinners, a trip of a life time! But many come home very sick because of the close confines.
Have you had a flu shot? Do you need a booster flu shot?
Might you get seasick, even if you are a good sailor, during storms things will be rough and you can’t just get off@
There are doctors on board, but they are very expensive so it pays to take a supply of things for common ailments.
Food and Water Saftey
It might seem like a great idea to try all the things a country has to offer, but many diseases are water born and food grown and washed in the water is a major danger.
Hepatitis A and Typhoid are common vaccine preventab;e water born diarrhoeal illnesses contracted by travellers
If you do get sick it’s important to have a plan and have access to medicines you will need especially if medical help will be hard to find or in a foreign language