Kincumber Travel Clinic is a full fledged service offered at The Surgery Kincumber
A visit to a travel clinic should not be to just get travel vaccines. At Kincumber Travel Clinic, we offer a lot more than just Vaccines, and we also provide and administer almost all vaccines including Yellow Fever vaccines. (We are also an Yellow Fever Accredited Centre)
Lets guide you with a Travel Plan (from health perspective)
Obviously this is the most important step. The places you are visiting, duration of your travel, season you are planning to go, any potential for communicable diseases. (if you are going to a developing world region in a rainy season, you need to be prepared for transport disruptions, power interruptions, diseases such as cholera). Understand what sort of access you may have for emergency health needs. Some times access to health could be even days away.
If you are visiting to the northern hemisphere (most overseas travel) you will be going in the opposite season. For a long Christmas Holiday to Europe, you need to be prepared for winter based diseases such as influenza/Covid, whereas in a tropical region, it could the time of diseases such as Malaria and dengue.
Start with your medicine cupboard at home. What have you used in the last 6-12 months. Common things could be simple things such as paracetamol (Panadol) and ibuprofen (Nurofen) tablets. Do you use things like deep heat, heat packs, knee/ankle/wrist braces? Do you use (contraceptive) pill? (or condoms). Organise a medicine bag and these should be the first to go inside. These may be available in a country you are visiting, but you could end up half a day trying to find these as well.
For specific health needs there are good websites as well. Australia government, World Health Organisation as well as Center for Disease Control (USA, if available) are some reputed sources.
Make a list of what you want to discuss. Obviously we will give you a lot of information as well. But a preparatory list is always helpful. What you need depends on your personal circumstance, but
