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 or altitude sickness for example. 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. Some of the most common health problems to affect travellers are malaria, traveller’s diarrhoea, altitude sickness, jet lag and motion sickness.
Prescription medication can be used as both a preventative measure and a treatment, depending on what illness it is intended for. Antimalarial prescription medications, treatments for motion sickness or altitude sickness are intended to act as preventative treatments, while the Travellers' Diarrhoea Pack and jet lag treatment can be used to treat conditions if they occur.
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 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 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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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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Diamox can be used by people who are prone to altitude sickness, in conjunction with other acclimatisation methods. Ideally Diamox should be taken preventatively and it works to reduce blood acidity and fluid build-up around the lungs and the brain.
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Avomine can be used in the treatment as well as prevention of travel sickness. It works by influencing the brain’s vomiting centres so that any messages from the nervous system that is likely to trigger any of the uncomfortable symptoms isn’t able to have an influence.
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Scopoderm is a patch that can be used to treat travel sickness. Just like other travel sickness treatments, Scopoderm works in the brain, so that if any conflicting messages from the nervous system aren’t able to illicit the usual response.
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Kwells is very easy to take and can help to prevent or treat travel sickness, although it’s better to take as a preventative measure. It works directly in the brain so that any messages from the nervous system that could trigger nausea or any other symptom aren’t able to have an effect.
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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.