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The Paludrine + Avloclor Travel Pack (112 tablets in seven strips suitable for two weeks travel) is almost universally priced at £15.50.
However I have found one supplier who supplies by the strip, very useful if you are going for more than two weeks, and at a significant discount as well - seven strips for £10.70 (plus £1.50 p&p)
http://www.stratford-pharmacy.co.uk/index.cfm?page=pharmacy.prodDetail&productid=19
Obviously you should ensure this is the correct treatment for the area you are visiting.
However I have found one supplier who supplies by the strip, very useful if you are going for more than two weeks, and at a significant discount as well - seven strips for £10.70 (plus £1.50 p&p)
http://www.stratford-pharmacy.co.uk/index.cfm?page=pharmacy.prodDetail&productid=19
Obviously you should ensure this is the correct treatment for the area you are visiting.
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Good call... Was just heading out to get 3 packs at lunchtime.
21 Strips chemist (3 x pack @ £15.50) = £46.50
20 Strips via special delivery tomorrow = £34.55 .. (I had one strip left over)
Saving £11.95 and no need to waste valuable lunchtime. The MSE Dictionary
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What are the side effects like on these?
I'm off to Goa for a week in December and don't really want to bother with all the side effects I have heard about and because its only a week.
Didn't bother when I went to Thailand and I was fine just using loads of Deet!
M0 -
Just a query (from somewone who works in the health service) - why don't you get it on prescription from your GP?? Reason I ask is that you need different anti-malaria for different areas and they will be able to look up the one most relevant for you - it also depends on your weight as well. For example we're going to Namibia at Xmas and need Malarone and Malarone Paediatric (cost to the Health Service approx £45 per pack and need two packs each as going for almost 4 weeks), cost to me is £6.50, cost for kids is free. Phoned up GP gave her mine and kids weights, prescriptions handed in to local chemist and my Mum picked it up for me yesterday.
Hope this helps and have a great time.0 -
Oooh eck, just read your posting MORPH3US and would URGE you please to take.
Side effects dependent on which drug you're taking, but have a BNF in front of me which lists all drug side effects. For example the one listed above Paludrine/Avloclor (cost to Health Service £8.79 per pack) is listed under Proguanil side effects: mild gastric intolerance and diarrhoea; occasionally mouth ulcers and stomatitis; skin reactions and hair loss reported; rarely hypersensitivity reactions such as urticaria and angioedema (side effects always list worst case scenario - for example you should look at the side effects for paracetamol!!)
Could tell you some awful horror stories of what could happen if you don't take it - know someone personally who had Dengy fever recently - urghhh! Some of the things you can get can stay in your system forever even if treated once you're home (and the treatments far worse than taking in the first place).
You should always take prophylaxis if poss!!0 -
I'm not registered with a GP. The only time I ever see a doctor (or practice nurse) is to get jabs when I go travelling. Each time I get jabs I have to re-register because I get de-registered as I don't otherwise use the GP's services.
I thought GPs were paid for each registered patient, so it would be in their interests to check with me before removing me from their patient list, but they don't.
Since you have pointed out the savings to be had by obtaining the Anti Malarials on prescription, I will check to see whether I can get them on prescription when I get my jabs - thanks for that.
PS The site I have used to find area specific info is https://www.traveldoctor.co.uk0 -
Excellent web-ste reccommendation!
Hmmm .... something dodgy going on with your GP's as there is no way that they should remove you from their books EVER without telling you / aking you? And even then, the only real reason is if you are a naughty patient?!? Would write to your local NHS / Primary Care Board (or phone them) and ask why this has happened - presumably they're making you pay prescription charges for your jags (and even to see Practice Nurse you must have a named Doctor).
You sound like a model patient, and it doesn't matter if you only ever go to the GP's to register and don't use them again for the next 20 years! You're right they're paid per patient and they don't get extra for 'not' treating you, so you think you'd be the ideal person to keep
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MORPH3US wrote:What are the side effects like on these?
Myself, the missus and the wee lad did a "dry run" taking these a month past, we all took for two weeks and no side effects whatsoever reported.
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i thought antimalarias are not allowed on FP10 and you need a private Prescription for this
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ceebeeby wrote:Just a query (from somewone who works in the health service) - why don't you get it on prescription from your GP?? .
We were told quite clearly by our GP that Paludrine + Avloclor are NOT available on prescription and thus the need to buy for myself Missus + Wee lad.
The jabs are different, you go see the Nurse/holiday clinic at your surgery, and they advise what you need. The likes of Hep A, Typhoid, Dyptheria, Tetanus, Polio, etc are all on prescription, free to laddo, covered by the missus's prepaid card, and I as always, paid for mine.
Now, if you need the likes of rabies, Yellow Fever (I think) and others, you then start heading down the private prescription route and it's expensive.The MSE Dictionary
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ceebeeby wrote:Oooh eck, just read your posting MORPH3US and would URGE you please to take.
Ok, ok, you convinced me.
I'll stop being a tight !!!!!! and get some. Will go and see the doctors and see what they say, but does anyone know what sort i'll need in Goa?
That Travel Doctor site says somthing about "Chloroquine Resistant Malaria" whatever that means!!!
Cheers
M0
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