Are vaccinations for the Dominican Republic essential?

lcharm

I'm travelling out there on honeymoon in 2 weeks (last minute booking).

I've had jabs for there in the past but that was over 5 years ago but my GP has no record of them and has said we should have had them 4-6 weeks in advance even though this was never an option.

It's a mix bag of opinions online as people say if you never plan to venture further than the resort and it's beaches other than the odd excursion then they're not needed and that's pretty much our holiday plan anyway.

Obviously malaria is just tablets so that's fine.

PompeyPete

Best advice is to make an appointment with your local GP Travel Clinic a few weeks before travelling.

The 4 UK standards are Diptheria, Tetanus, Hep 'A' and Typhoid, and all UK travellers should be in date before travelling anywhere.

Six weeks before our recent trip to SE Asia we had an appointment with our GP Travel Clinic.

We had a one-2-one consultation.

Lots of questions, particularly about intended activities, lifestyle, and length of stay in any particular area.

We gave lots of honest answers, and also discussed commonsense things like precautions against mossie bites.

At the end we were each given a fully personalised travel health brief MASTA (Minding Your Health Abroad).

This is a one-off brief, valid only for the journey discussed at the consultation.

If I needed to make a claim on my Travel Insurance then I would have used the MASTA brief to support my claim.

The consultation was free, it took only half an hour, and it definitely put our mind at rest.

lcharm

That's the thing though, I don't have 4-6 weeks I'm leaving in exactly 2 weeks and my GP secretary is clueless

jhe

i went to the Dominican Republic in february,i have already had most of the jabs apart from hep B, but was advised to take malaria tablets (only a couple of pound from an independent chemist) we met up with friends who live in canada they had no vaccinations or malaria tablets .
i believe http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/destinations/caribbean/dominican-republic.aspx is the site the practice nurse at my surgery gave me