Friday, January 25, 2013

“Prevention is better than cure”- Is it?


With the increased number of people travelling abroad, there have been huge risks of health, due to medical disorders found in various geographical areas. Few major health concerns count- malaria (commonly found in Asia), yellow fever (in Africa and South America), etc. In such situations, where there is phenomenal rise in the health risks, prevention has also become equally important, in order to have a safe trip.

As said “prevention is better than cure”, which clearly explains that it is better to take precautions beforehand, rather than crying on it after facing that. This phrase, exactly matches to the situation of travellers, who need to take all preventive measures before they face any health problems during their visit to high risky countries. Here preventive measures refer to travel immunizations, which are needed to be taken from travel clinic in NYC.

One thing that might come in mind here is that why there's a need to visit only a travel clinic and not any other health facility center, in order to get vaccinations? The answer to that is, although these clinics and hospitals are same, but they both have different roles to be played in their respective medical facility areas. This is because travel clinics are specialized in providing only travel vaccinations or altitude sickness medicine to travellers, and on other hand hospitals deal with large range of health concerns.

These travel clinics are helpful in many ways. The first and foremost benefit, which traveller can get from them is regarding the information about the needful vaccinations required in their travel destination. Besides this they would even provide the travellers detailed guidelines regarding vaccinations and along with pre-travel preparation plan.

However, a traveller also must inform the physician about his/her all previous vaccines. This would help the physician know what all vaccinations the traveller already had and what all other vaccinations he/she needs, in order to have a safe trip.

Another benefit of such clinic is that they provide travel certificate of immunizations, which are a part of documentation required to visit a country. For example people travelling to North America and North Africa regions have changes to get life threatening diseases like yellow fever, thus to visit those regions, traveller needs to show their evidence of being vaccinated.

Now, after looking at all the above mentioned prospects, do make sure that you visit the travel clinic prior 1 or 2 month before your trip. This is must, so as to ensure that antibodies have started their effect in the human body before the trip.

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