Tropical Travel useful tips
If you go in hot
countries, the following tips are helpful:
VACCINATIONS
- It is
essential to get to a tetanus booster,
- As well as a
polio booster.
- The vaccine
against yellow fever is required for entry in many tropical countries (your
travel agent will tell you these countries). You should know that vaccination
is practiced only in some hospitals.
- A typhoid
vaccine is needed now: TYPHIN VI (one injection only and protects for 3 years).
- The vaccine
against hepatitis B is recommended. 3 injections one month apart and a reminder
the following year.
- Meningococcal
vaccine mandatory for pilgrims to Mecca in 1987.
- For the
adventurous travelers to tropical countries, the vaccination is required (see
RABIES VACCINATION).
- The vaccine
against hepatitis A (1 single injection, booster six months later) is highly
desirable.
MALARIA
Prophylaxis is
required during the entire stay and a few weeks after returning home. Due to
resistance to chloroquine which is emerging more and more frequently in
tropical countries and more and more, this simple prophylaxis with chloroquine
is no longer sufficient: see MALARIA MALARIA OF THE CHILD MALARIA TREATMENT OF
THE CHILD, MALARIA PREVENTION, MALARIA AREAS OF STRENGTH.
WIRED
When traveling
in a tropical bush is relatively long, a filariasis may occur (see FILIAROSES).
Preventive treatment with half a tablet taken Notezine of 2 times per week may
be advisable, especially for WIRED A LOA-LOA (qv).
STD AIDS
All sexually
transmitted diseases are very common in Africa and Asia. Heterosexual
transmission is the most common, it is not recommended that great caution.
HEALTH TIPS
- Avoid fresh
water baths (risk BILHARZIASIS, qv)
- Avoid walking
barefoot in muddy fields (risk of strongyloidiasis and hookworm, see these
terms)
- Drink only
mineral water demanding to open the bottle in front of you,
- Wash fruits
and vegetables with boiled or sterilized water with Micropur eg
- For fruit must
wipe and peel yourself thoroughly before consumption,
- Do not consume
contaminated food with tap water
- Absolutely
avoid raw vegetables, shellfish, ice water, ice.
- Should also
brush your teeth with bottled water.
- Wash hands
with soap before handling food.
-Do not forget
sunglasses and protective sun creams sufficient.
- The meat will
be cooked to eat.
- Milk, milk,
cheese and ice cream: only industrial products are allowed.
- Do not put ice
in his drink.
- Do not eat
frozen because the cold chain is broken frequently in countries where
electricity is unreliable.
EMERGENCY KIT
- Imodium
ercefuryl against traveler's
- Notezine
against filariasis
- Aspirin,
paracetamol
- Betadine,
bandages, gauze, tape
- Teldane or Zyrtec
against allergies
- Nivaquine,
Halfon paludrine against malaria
- A package of
adrenaline if the subject is allergic to Hymenoptera stings.
- An antiemetic
such Primpéran
- A type Spasfon
antispasmodic, Debridat, Dicetel.
- A sleeping
short half-life kind Stilnox
- A
broad-spectrum antibiotic such Fluoroquinolone (Oflocet, Ciflox example)
- A drug against
motion sickness (Nautamine Dramamine)
- Micropur to
disinfect water
- Do not forget
the condoms purchased in France.
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