30/05/2020
Why you need to visit a Travel Clinic
Whether you have decided to take that trip to visit family and friends, go on pilgrimages, leave home to school abroad, or to pick up a new job, it is important that you take special precautions to stay healthy while on the trip. This is where the travel clinic at Q-Life Family Clinic comes in. The purpose of a travel clinic is to ensure your health is properly managed when you travel to another country. It is recommended that you visit a travel medicine physician 4 to 6 weeks before your trip.
Here are 5 reasons you should visit the travel clinic
1. The Travel clinic at Q-Life Family clinic provide current recommendations concerning immunizations
When you travel, you may encounter diseases that are more common in the destination country, so it is important you are protected against such by getting vaccinated. It is also possible to meet common illnesses like flu, measles, chickenpox in crowded spaces like airports and airplanes, and run the risk of falling ill while travelling. The Travel clinic also ensures that you are up-to-date on your immunization status. Some vaccinations like Yellow fever are required to enter some countries. This implies that it is not a personal choice and without having received the vaccine, you cannot make the trip. At the clinic, you get all the necessary vaccines.
2. The Travel Clinic provides you with medications to prevent and/or treat illnesses. At Q-Life Family Clinic, Travel Medicine Physicians provide you with preventative medications for malaria, altitude sickness, motion sickness, diarrhea, and other diseases you may not anticipate getting infected with. Your physician will also discuss other measures aside medications that can prevent illnesses.
3. The Travel Clinic provides you with information about food and water safety at your destination. Travel medicine is not just about jabs and prescriptions. The travel clinic gives information about eating safe food, drinking safe water, avoiding fresh fruits and veggies. Some destinations are notorious for food and water-borne diseases and the travel clinic keeps you abreast of this information so that you do not fall ill on your trip.
4. The Travel Clinic provides you with travel safety tips when you have special health conditions. Some travellers have special conditions that need to be put into consideration before they can travel safely. These include pregnant women, travellers with children, chronic disabilities, elderly patients, and immunocompromised people. Travellers in this category get the needed additional information from the travel clinic to enable a healthy trip.
5. The Travel Clinic discusses safe travel habits with you.
While it is important you enjoy your travel, safety is also important. It is important to discuss about habits or activities that border around walking alone at night, excessive drinking, unprotected s*x, and how they affect your health as an international traveller. Travellers are advised at the travel clinic not to throw cautions to the wind simply because they are on a trip. These reminders help travellers make well-informed decisions while they are away.
