What do you wish you had taken???????

mystic_trev

I never travel without a water puifier. This is about the best small one you can get and will treat approx 60 litres

http://www.singersoutdoors.co.uk/showproduct.asp?id=890&pgid=159&r=159/X/0/0

There's nothing worse than being "out in the sticks" without clean water.

mystic_trev

badabing wrote:

imodium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't get me wrong, Immodiums fine for curing the "symptons" and a godsend particulary whilst traveling. However one of the best medications is "Ciprofloxacin" and maybe worthwhile asking your Dr for a perscription. Alternatively if you're starting your journey from Bangkok, pop into Boots (yes Boots!) and you can buy them over the counter. Malaria tablets are also about the fifth the price you'd pay here. I always take Doxycycline.

saveapenny

couldnt you get a script for one and take the injection with you and get a doc to do it out there at the end of the 3mths

jambojen_2

thanks, im not sure if they would let me do that, but its worth asking i suspose.
im off to the docs tonight to get my malaria tablets. i think they are going to be Doxycycline, but i have heard they make you react funny in the heat?? and they are gonna be 18p per tablet.

Mystic_trev, cant believe there is a `boots` in Bangkok!!!! lol.

i am also having my injections on the 18th, does anyone know if they will be free???? i have heard so many different things. ?
jen

black-saturn

jambojen wrote:

i am also having my injections on the 18th, does anyone know if they will be free???? i have heard so many different things. ?
jen

They were free when I had them but my boyfriend had them at the same time at a different doctors surgery and he had to pay £170 for them.

Having said that when we got there we were the only ones in the whole group who had had any vaccinations.

jambojen_2

£170!!!! i cannot pay that for them. i need like 6 injections apparantly!!!!!
gonna be a human pin cushion.

they better be free!! or i might have to risk it injection free.

black-saturn

If I went there again I wouldnt bother with injections. We were the only ones out of a group of about 30 who had had them. We were also the only ones taking malaria tablets.

Those countries are civilised and clean in most areas. As long as you don't drink the water, regularly wash your hands and be cleanliness aware you will be OK.

What kind of accommodation are you staying in?

jambojen_2

im not totally sure really. we have only booked 3 nights in Bangkok. then after that were heading down to phuket on the overnight train and heading out to an island.
so im guuessing we will be staying in beach bungalows, and hostels and stuff.
we are also going to Cambodia and Vietnam and Laos. and i have been told u defo ned to take malaria tablets if you are heading to those countries.

Did anyone watch that `banged up abroad` programme the other day about that woman in thailand smuggling heroin? she got Dungue fever and it sounded NASTY! wouldnt want that!

jasonrat

jambojen wrote:

£170!!!! i cannot pay that for them. i need like 6 injections apparantly!!!!!
gonna be a human pin cushion.

they better be free!! or i might have to risk it injection free.

6 injections??? thought u were going to se asia not africa

black-saturn

jasonrat wrote:

6 injections??? thought u were going to se asia not africa

I guess they have advised that because she is travelling from one country to another. They advise more if your doing that than if you are just staying in one country.

I hope she doesn't have to pay for them.