Travel Health Treatments

Travelling abroad is exciting and enriching, but it can also expose you to potential health problems that are not present at home, such as malaria. The best thing to do to minimise this risk is to be fully prepared before you travel, by researching your destination and making sure you have taken all necessary precautions to protect your health. Two of the most common health problems to affect travellers are malaria and travellers' diarrhoea.

Though malaria is considered to be the more dangerous of the two, travellers' diarrhoea can be extremely distressing and uncomfortable, and can ruin what would otherwise have been a fun and enjoyable trip abroad. Taking the right precautions will lower your risk of illness and ensure that you are as prepared as you can be if they do occur.

Prescription travel health treatments

Prescription medication can be used as both a preventative measure and a treatment, depending on what illness it is intended for. Antimalarial prescription medications are intended to act as preventative treatments, while the Travellers' Diarrhoea Pack can be used to treat travellers' diarrhoea if it occurs.

Doxycycline Malaria

Doxycycline for Malaria is an antibiotic that is popularly taken to prevent malaria. It is often prescribed to those journeying to South America, India, East- Asia and Africa, as these are areas where the malaria parasite has become resistant to older treatments that contain chloroquine, like Paludrine & Avloclor.

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Malarone

Malarone can be used as both a treatment and a preventative antimalarial medication. It contains atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride. Malarone is known to be effective in areas where the malaria parasite has built up resistance to older antimalarial medications. A course of Malarone treatment only needs to be started one to two days before the trip, meaning that it is useful for trips at short notice.

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Paludrine & Avloclor

Paludrine & Avloclor is a clinically proven antiviral treatment for genital warts. It contains podophyllotoxin and comes in the form of a solution which can be applied directly to the visible warts.

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Diarrhoea Pack

Getting diarrhoea while travelling or on holiday is a sure way to spoil your time away. However, it's usually inevitable, especially for travellers who visit countries where hygiene standards aren't very high. Travellers' diarrhoea isn't just the result of poor hygiene practices; sometimes a person can become affected simply because they aren't used to the bacteria in their new environment. This is often the case in people visiting a country with a warmer or more tropical climate than their home country.

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Ordering travel health treatments online

Each of the treatments described above is available to order at OnlineClinic with just a simple online consultation. The consultation allows us to confirm that any treatment you select will be suitable for you in terms of safety and efficacy. Once your consultation has been approved by a doctor, a prescription will be issued and then filled and dispensed by our registered pharmacy. With a choice of delivery options, you can be confident that you will receive your treatment as quickly as possible.