Travel Health

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Avoid harmful situations with medications designed for travel.

Travelling abroad is becoming an increasingly common activity for people all over the world, and though many people are aware of the potential hazards of travelling in certain areas, they still remain unaware about the health risks involved. Thousands of travellers are affected by travel illnesses like diarrhoea, altitude sickness, travel sickness, jet lag and malaria every year. Before you travel, you should research your destination to be sure that you are as prepared as possible for any health risks that your trip could include.

If you are properly prepared and have the right treatments to hand, you can avoid the distress and anxiety that is caused by being ill in an unfamiliar place. You can find the information and treatments you need at OnlineClinic to ensure that you remain happy and healthy while travelling abroad.

Malaria prevention

Malaria is an extremely serious illness but it is possible to avoid becoming infected if you follow adequate prevention guidelines. You should never assume that you will be lucky enough to avoid contracting malaria, especially when effective preventative treatments are so easily available. In the UK alone, a reported 1,500 people returning from travelling abroad are infected with malaria. This is usually due to their failure to either take the antimalarials properly or to take them at all.

Malarone, Paludrine & Avloclor and Doxycycline are all antimalarial treatments that can be taken to avoid a malaria infection. These treatments specifically target the parasite directly to lower a person’s risk of developing a full-blown infection. All these treatments need to be taken before, during and after a holiday, however Paludrine & Avloclor isn’t affective to take to prepare for all destinations.

Travellers' diarrhoea

A very common illness to affect those travelling abroad is travellers' diarrhoea, which is a particularly frequent occurrence in developing countries, usually due to the sanitation levels being relatively low. It can also occur because your body may not be used to the bacteria that is found in new foods that you sample while abroad. Although travellers' diarrhoea isn’t normally dangerous, it can be very uncomfortable and can include symptoms such as nausea, loose stools and vomiting.

The Travellers' Diarrhoea Pack - This pack contains a number of products that will help to treat the illness and alleviate its uncomfortable symptoms. The Travellers' Diarrhoea Pack contains the antibiotic Ciproxin, Dioralyte sachets, Imodium and Buccastem, which together will help you to recover faster from the discomfort of travellers' diarrhoea.

Jet lag

Jet lag is a common condition that can affect people who travel through different time zones over a set period of time. It’s not a serious condition, but it can be uncomfortable and make it difficult for a person to adjust to their new destination as quickly as they would like to.

The Jet Lag Treatment Pack is a treatment that helps reduce the recovery time from jet lag by allowing the body settle into its new sleep pattern much faster. This is because the medication in the Jet Lag Treatment Pack contains melatonin, which is also released naturally by the body at night.

Altitude sickness

Altitude sickness is a potentially serious condition that occurs when a person doesn’t allow their body to acclimatise when ascending great heights, particularly above 3,600m. If the body isn’t allowed to adjust to changes in altitude it can lead to serious complications such as fluid around the lungs, heart and brain.

Diamox, if used in conjunction with acclimatisation methods, can help reduce a person’s risk of developing altitude sickness. This treatment works by balancing blood acidity and reducing fluid levels in the body to minimise the risk of a dangerous fluid build-up and retention.

Travel sickness

Travel sickness or motion sickness is a condition that can happen as a result travelling by air, boat, train or road and is the result of a miscommunication between signals received by the brain from the inner ear and eyes. Although it’s a common condition, many people tend to grow out of it as they get older, or may only experience it on one particular mode of transport.

There are a number of different treatments that can be used to help prevent and treat travel sickness, these include Avomine, Scopoderm and Kwells. These medications influence the brain’s vomiting centres to help make it less likely that you’ll experience symptoms like nausea or vomiting when travelling, allowing you to experience a much more comfortable journey.

How to buy Travel Health treatments online

The best way to handle the possibility of illness abroad is to be properly prepared, and you can do that with the products described above. To buy any of the treatments at OnlineClinic, you will need to complete an online consultation to ensure that your chosen treatment will be suitable for you. We offer either same-day or next-day delivery, so you can receive your medication promptly.