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Travel Health
Consultation & Treatments
If you’re preparing to travel overseas, whether for a business
trip or a holiday, you'll want everything to run smoothly, and
ensure you’re fully prepared for any eventuality. For that
reason, it’s advised you research travel health advice well
ahead of your trip, so that you can be aware of any travel
medicines you may need to use either before you go, or while
you’re away.
Among other things, you will need to consider the appropriate
precautions if you’re heading to an area of the world prone to
malaria, whether that’s insect repellent or anti-malarial
tablets. You can also take preventative measures for travellers’
diarrhoea, and help to reduce altitude sickness symptoms or the
effects of jet lag.
Take the time to prepare yourself properly for your trip and get
travel health advice before you head off – that way, you can get
on with planning your travel with no distractions or worries.
Malaria is a parasitic disease that is spread by mosquitoes’
bites. If a mosquito has previously been infected with the
malaria parasite, a single bite can infect you with malaria.
Symptoms of malaria can be seen as early as seven days after a
bite, but the parasite can also lie dormant in the body meaning
you could be without symptoms for a year or more. All kinds of
malaria are serious, but malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum
is the most serious. Its symptoms can cause severe illness or
death very quickly in the worst cases. Find
out more
Jet lag is the disorientated feeling you may experience after
the disturbance to sleep patterns caused when travelling across
several time zones – east or west. Jet lag tends to affect you
more severely when you fly east (towards the Middle East, China
and Japan, or are returning to the UK from a stay in the USA).
This is because the body finds it harder to get used to a
shorter day (in effect, requiring you to go to bed early and
sleep) than a longer day (requiring you to stay up longer and
then sleep). Find
out more
Travellers’ diarrhoea is common. It is usually mild diarrhoea
that may be problematic for a few days, but more often than not
will resolve itself. However, it can ruin a holiday or a
business trip. Around 30-50% of people travelling from a
developed country to a developing country will contract
travellers’ diarrhoea. You can purchase effective medicines from
Pharmacy2U to help relieve this unpleasant problem. Find
out more
Altitude sickness is a common condition that a person may
experience after they’ve climbed too quickly to heights they are
not used to. As you climb, the pressure in the atmosphere lowers
and the level of oxygen in the air falls, making effective
breathing more difficult. In most cases, symptoms are mild but
it can become very serious. Studies have shown that there are
treatments available can help reduce the severity of altitude
sickness symptoms, and can also help prevent the condition from
occurring. Find
out more
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