Tips to keep You Healthy While Travelling

Falling sick appears as a part of everyday life, and being on the road does not let you off from that fact, especially while travelling. It exposes you to a whole new vary of bugs, parasites and environments. So  to minimize chances of this, you need to actively combat risk factors of being sick in the first place. The last thing you will to do is to expose yourself to any more risk than you have to. Thus, prevention is far better than any cure.

1. Wash Your Hands:

Hand hygiene is really essential to impede the spread of infection and can radically lessen your chances of diarrhoea, flu, gastroenteritis, food poisoning, vomiting, or even hepatitis A. Many travellers bear small bottles of hand gel, and these are great as a backup, but they ain’t a replacement for good old soap and water. Wherever possible, clean your hands under hot water for at least thirty (30) seconds before and after eating and constantly after going to the toilet.

2. Drink Bottled Water:

This seems as a good idea to use the bottled water to brush your teeth. But personally I do a favor to use a water bottle with a built-in filter as this decreases the need to buy bottles of water persistently, saving both money and the environment.

3. Careful of Food Contamination:

Food contamination falls as one of the major causes of traveller’s diarrhoea and gastrointestinal problems on any travel adventure. If you are not cautious with your food on your travels, you could potentially be exposing yourself to diarrhoea. You should constantly make sure — as much as is practicably probable — that any food you eat is fresh, cooked carefully, and served well.

4. Stay Active:

One of the best ways to stay fit and healthy is none other than Exercise. The benefits of exercise are renowned and well-documented: it gets better your overall health and fortifies your immune system, which makes you less subject to ill health.

5. Vaccinate:

Vaccinations are one of the most common travel health concerns. Yes,prevention is forever better than the heal, and nothing is better at caring you from risk of getting a disease than being vaccinated against it.

6. Appointment with A Travel Health Professional:

Sure! It is imperative that you converse your plans with a travel health professional well before you leave on your ‘Round-the-world adventure.