How to Make the Most of Your Trip Abroad with Pre-Travel Medical Consultations in Summer 2023?

Nothing can be more frustrating than ending up falling sick on your dream vacation. But that is not your fault! After all, as per the UAE medics, people tend to experience travel-associated illnesses during their holidays. What is in your hands, however, is being prepared!

Several hospitals in the UAE provide pre-travel consultation at their travel medicine clinics. Traveller’s health clinic at a hospital is usually established under the family medicine clinic department. These clinics offer preventive health care services which include vaccinations against tropical illnesses such as yellow fever and typhoid. The doctors at this type of clinic will also offer you medications for diseases such as malaria.

Benefits of Prior Consultation

When you consult a physician in advance, they will provide you with relevant professional insights to avoid health risks of infectious diseases, environmental hazards, and parasitical infections. These clinics carry out personal clinical risk assessments as per your requirements and as per their travel plans.

Such services at the hospital are primarily available for people travelling abroad for business, leisure, or visiting family and friends.

To further simplify your visit to the clinic, make sure that you provide copies of your vaccination records (including the International Certificate of Vaccinations). During your visit, the doctor will comprehensively assess the health risks that are particular to each country present in your itinerary. They will further carry out an in-depth examination of your medical and vaccination history.

Please Keep in Mind - Medical consultation should be taken at least a month before you have to travel. This ensures the availability of sufficient time to get a thorough medical evaluation and immunisation. Moreover, pregnant women and patients with autoimmune deficiency need to be extra careful while travelling abroad.

What Types of Medicines Should You Carry?

Besides pre-travel medicine consultation, it’s important to know what basic medicines you need to carry. Here is your medicine pack list -

• Thermometer
• Insect repellent
• Motion sickness medication
• Antibacterial and antifungal cream
• Cough syrup
• Anti-allergic medication
• Antacid
• Pain and fever medication
• Diarrhoea medicines
• Band-aid
• Sterile dressing
• Antiseptic cream
• Gauze

Travel Insurance to the Rescue!

Generally, people who travel internationally tend to have more than a 50% chance of facing a travel-associated illness. To make sure that any such ailment doesn’t take the best of your budget while travelling, a travel insurance plan with hospital coverage abroad is necessary.

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Written by - Tanvi Pathak