Don’t travel to Asia without getting immunized with Japanese Encephalitis vaccination!

Japanese Encephalitis is one of the serious viral diseases caused due to bite of a mosquito. It can cause swelling in the brain, which affects the entire nervous systems and cause severe damage to entire body.

Symptoms of this viral disease may appear after five to six days. The signs and symptoms vary from one person to the other. Some of the common symptoms are as follows:

• Headache
• Fever
• Felling of tiredness and body ache
• Drowsiness
• Vomiting
• Nausea
• Confusion
• Disorientation

Apart from this, people suffering from this issue also experience sleepiness, weight loss and irregular heartbeats.

When this virus enters in the bloodstream of an individual, it starts replicating itself in different types of cells. This virus attacks cells of nervous system, causing severe symptoms to appear.  This disease is so severe that it may cause death of a person, if not diagnosed and treated properly.

How doctors diagnose Japanese Encephalitis?

The physician will ask patients about symptoms and health problems they are experiencing. On considering complete medical history and symptoms that appear in patients, the doctor may ask patients to undergo different types of tests, out of which, the most common are as follows:

Blood tests- The blood tests are performed to check for the presence of virus cells in the body.

CT scan- The CT scan gives an idea about functioning of vital organs in the body.

MRI Scan- MRI scanners make use of magnetic fields and radio waves to form images of the parts of the human body.

Japanese Encephalitis is common in Asian countries. That is why, it is essential for you to get yourself immunized with travel immunizations before traveling to Asia. Taking such precautions is necessary to prevent falling sick on a trip or vacation.

Some of the Asian countries do not have adequate medical facilities to treat different types of diseases. Falling sick in such countries can cause a big trouble. Japanese Encephalitis demands early diagnoses and effective treatment by an expert physician.

Therefore, those who are planning vacation in Asian countries should visit a travel clinic to know more about diseases prevalent in these countries. Moreover, the experts in these clinics also get people immunized with vaccinations that will keep them healthy in a foreign country.

In addition to this, they will also give valuable tips for diet and clothes that people should wear in these countries.

Travelling to Egypt? Did you take the required vaccination?

Egypt is the most famous travel destination place because it has many ancient monuments, which attract people from different parts of the globe.

The ancient pyramids, spectacular sunset, the Nile drifting and the red sea have made it the most popular destination with travelers.

If you are thinking to go to Egypt, there are certain vaccinations that you need to get prior 4 to 6 weeks the trip, in order to allow vaccines to get affected in the body and starts preventing it from life threatening disease.

In case, even if you have less than 4 weeks, you should still see a doctor for needed travel vaccines in New York, anti-drugs, other medications and information that helps to protect you from the illnesses present in Egypt.

Following vaccines that are advised by doctor:

Hepatitis A- Hepatitis A disease damages the liver and to protect against from this infection, it is important to get Hepatitis A vaccine. Children travelling to Egypt are supposed to be 1 year or older and gets two doses of Hepatitis A and adults that are 19 years older are also given two doses of this vaccine, if travelling to Egypt. Besides age factor, certain other factors are taken into consideration by doctor before delivering this vaccine to traveler. To name a few of those factors are allergic reaction, pregnancy and other health issues like diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure etc.

Tetanus, Diphtheria and Polio vaccination- These three vaccines are given in one shot to adults. However, children are given this part of immunization during their childhood. Tetanus is bacterial disease that occurs in the body through cuts and grazes, diphtheria is also a bacterial disease that is caused because of contaminated clothes, and physical contact, polio is caused because of contaminated water and food. 

Typhoid- Caused by bacteria called Salmonella Typhi. It leads to high fever, weakness, stomach pains, headache, loss of appetite, and rashes. Two vaccines that help prevent typhoid are inactivated typhoid vaccine and live typhoid vaccine.

Hepatitis B- Likewise, Hepatitis A is injurious to health and affects liver, Hepatitis B affects liver. Though, it is not always life threatening as acute illness like loss of appetite, diarrhea and vomiting, jaundice and pain in muscles, joints, and stomach occurs first and then causes things to become worst (liver damage, liver cancer, death), if not received the vaccine for the same.

Rabies- It is a viral disease caused by mammals like raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes. If not taken preventive measures for this disease, it can lead to disease in the brain and death.