Top 10 travel
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Travel health mistakes #5, 6 and 7
Not minimizing jet lag
Staying up late watching
movies on a long overnight flight
Not a good idea. Insufficient sleep lengthens the jet lag adjustment period you face on arrival.
Drinking alcohol
It may put you to sleep for an hour or two. But when you awake, you'll likely have difficulty falling back into a deep sleep. You are better off taking a sleeping pill, which doesn't have this shortcoming.
Melatonin
This over-the-counter drug helps shorten the jet lag recovery period.
Sunlight
Spend as much of your first day as you can in the sun. That helps reset your biological clock to the local time zone.
No medicine backups
Create two complete sets
of your essential medications
Store one set in your carry-on, the other in your suitcase in case one is lost.
Make copies of your original written
prescriptions - and take them with you.
This could speed replacement abroad should you lose a prescribed medication.
Skipping needed vaccinations and pills
Ask your doctor about the essential
vaccinations and pills you will need
for your particular travel destination
These are the ones that help prevent serious diseases. Malaria and typhoid fever, for example.
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