Travel medicines checklist

Are you going away? Have you packed your medicines? This post contains a general travel health medicines checklist. Please call into one of our branches and speak to a member of staff to get specific advice for your plans.

Medicines Checklist

• First Aid kit – containing plasters, antiseptic spray, thermometer, scissors, various dressings, adhesive tape
• Consider sterile needles and syringes, IV kit
• Insect Bites – antihistamines, steroid cream, insect repellent, mosquito net, plug in insecticide vaporiser
• Water purification – water disinfectant tablets or drops
• Sun cream – High factor UVA/B Sun cream
• After sun
• Medication – Regular Medication – take extra, especially inhalers – pack in hold and hand luggage
• Travel sickness (if required)
• Laxatives (if required)
• Thrush treatment
• Cystitis treatment
• Diarrhoea treatment – Loperamide, rehydration sachets
• Insect repellent
• Antimalarial medicines if needed (see below)

Travel vaccines

Many people worry that it they have left it too late to have a travel vaccine. Ideally it is best to be vaccinated as early as possible, but this is not always possible due to work and/or family commitments. Even if you have a vaccine on the day of travel it is better than not having a vaccine at all. This is because you produce antibodies from the day that you are vaccinated. Click on the link to find out more about late travel vaccines. We have appointments available for  today. Please book an appointment.

Malaria tablets

Depending on the medicine that you will be taking to prevent malaria, ideally you should start taking them between one and ten days before travel. However, it is better to start taking medicine to prevent malaria late than not at all. We can organise and dispend you  prescription today. Please book an appointment.