Travel and Tropical Health & Medicine

In this episode I look at travel related illness and some tropical diseases worth knowing about.

Traveller’s tummy: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/travel-tummy-troubles-heres-how-to-prevent-or-soothe-them-202208042796

Diarrhoeal illness: https://www.who.int/health-topics/diarrhoea#tab=tab_1

Oral rehydration therapy: https://www.unicef.org/supply/stories/oral-rehydration-salts-and-zinc-co-packaging-offers-simple-solution-save-children-diarrhoea

Probiotics for traveller’s diarrhoea: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/saccharomyces-boulardii-probiotic

Mosquito-borne illness: https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/learn/mosquito-borne-diseases

Dengue and severe Dengue: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue

Neglected tropical disaeases: https://www.who.int/health-topics/neglected-tropical-diseases#tab=tab_1

DVT: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/deep-vein-thrombosis-dvt/

Sunburn and skin cancer: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/sun-uv-and-cancer/how-does-the-sun-and-uv-cause-cancer

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