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The Traveller's Good Health Guide,9780859698856

The Traveller's Good Health Guide

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ISBN13: 9780859698856
ISBN10: 0859698858
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-01
Publisher(s): Sheldon Pr
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Summary

Essential health manual for anyone planning a long over-seas trip.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
INFORMATION SOURCES viii
AUTHOR TO TRAVELLER ix
SECTION 1 BEFORE YOU GO 1(37)
Checklist for before you leave
1(1)
Arranging your immunizations
2(7)
Kits, medicines, antimalarials and other health supplies
9(8)
Travellers with special health risks
17(6)
Medicals and travel health advice
23(2)
Preparing for an overseas assignment
25(3)
Health insurance for travel abroad
28(1)
The flight
29(9)
SECTION 2 WHILE ABROAD 38(115)
Precautions with food
38(5)
Safe drinking
43(4)
Hygiene at home
47(2)
Dealing with diarrhoea
49(13)
Defeating malaria
62(30)
Avoiding AIDS
92(4)
Preventing accidents
96(2)
Knowing about blood transfusions
98(4)
Coping with stress
102(6)
Height, heat, cold, sun
108(9)
Creatures that bite and sting
117(9)
How to survive an overseas assignment
126(7)
Security
133(2)
Pregnancy
135(6)
Children
141(8)
Disability
149(2)
Diabetes
151(2)
SECTION 3 WHEN YOU RETURN 153(14)
Illness on return home
153(3)
Having a tropical check-up
156(3)
GPs, dentists and opticians
159(2)
Reverse culture shock
161(6)
SECTION 4 NOTES ON IMPORTANT CONDITIONS 167(51)
Anthrax
167(1)
Backache and sciatica
168(1)
Bilharzia (schistosomiasis)
169(3)
Brucellosis
172(1)
Chagas' disease (South American trypanosomiasis)
172(1)
Coughs and chest infections
173(2)
Dengue fever
175(1)
Ear problems
176(1)
Ebola
176(1)
Eye problems
177(1)
Fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME)
178(6)
Fever
184(2)
Gynaecological problems
186(2)
Hepatitis
188(3)
Intestinal worms
191(2)
Lassa fever
193(1)
Leishmaniasis
194(1)
Lyme disease
194(1)
Meningitis
195(1)
Migraine and headaches
196(1)
Mouth ulcers
197(1)
Plague
198(1)
Rabies
199(3)
River blindness (onchocerciasis)
202(1)
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
203(1)
Skin conditions
204(4)
Sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis)
208(1)
Tick-borne encephalitis
209(1)
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF)
210(1)
Tonsillitis and sore throats
211(1)
Tooth problems
211(2)
Tuberculosis
213(1)
Typhus
214(1)
Urinary tract infection (UTI)
215(2)
Yellow fever
217(1)
Appendix A Checklist of useful medicines 218(3)
Appendix B Suggested contents of first-aid kits 221(2)
Appendix C List of suppliers 223(1)
Appendix D Useful addresses 223(7)
Appendix E Incubation periods of important illnesses 230(1)
Appendix F Notes on individual vaccines 231(14)
Further reading 245(2)
Index 247

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