Friday, October 11, 2013

Guidelines followed by doctors when providing travel immunization in NYC to travelers!

If you are planning to go abroad, certain precautions are must to consider in order have a healthy trip.
Here precautions refer to vaccinations that given to the traveler on basis of few factors like: travel destination, length of stay, activity in which traveler will be involved during the trip and vaccines taken by the traveler in past.

To obtain the vaccines, traveler needs to consult the travel doctor prior one or two months before the trip because vaccines take time get effective in the body. Hence, to be totally safe from the deadly diseases, it is important to obtain vaccines before heading on for the trip.

The doctor of travel clinic follows few guidelines, while providing travel immunization in NYC to travelers:

The foremost thing that the doctor considers before giving vaccines to traveler is destination where he or she is visiting. For example, traveler going to West and Central Africa and in parts of Central and South America, he’s given yellow fever vaccines because those parts are yellow fever epidemic areas.
Next thing doctor check is vaccines taken by travelers in past. This is important to consider because some vaccines will require booster and some may not.

Usually, vaccines are divided into three sections: routine, recommended, and required.
The traveler on routine basis procures routine vaccines, while many may have attained these vaccines when they were infant or child. The vaccines that come under this category are: measles, tetanus, pertussis, mumps, rubella, varicella, diphtheria, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenza type b, and pneumococcal invasive disease.

Recommended vaccines suggested by the doctor to the traveler in order to also be safe from minor illnesses. This section includes vaccines of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid and medications for Malaria.

Required vaccines are the most important and priority ones that are sure-fire cannot be missed out by the doctor and by the traveler. This given to the traveler six weeks prior to the departure date, so that it affects last out till the traveler is in the epidemic country. Vaccines that come under it are: yellow fever, hepatitis A & B, rabies, polio, Japanese Encephalitis, typhoid, tetanus and many more.

Moreover, required vaccines are the priority one checked by the airport authorities and if they find traveler is not immune with the required vaccines, they won’t allow him or her to enter the country.

However, before giving any of these aforementioned vaccines, doctor will also check the health condition of traveler. This is important to check because many times vaccines can cause health issues also.

 If you want to get travel immunization from NYC, make sure you have consulted the best travel doctor of the city.