This document provides travel health and safety tips authored by Dr. Debbie Heit, focusing on preparation for safe international travel. Key recommendations include researching destinations, utilizing CDC travel resources, and packing essential medications and immunizations based on travel location and conditions. It also emphasizes the importance of situational awareness during travel and specific precautions for vulnerable groups, particularly regarding diseases like Zika.

1. Travel Tips
Dr. Debbie Heit MD
Lt Col, USAF (ret)
June 2017
How to prepare for safe and healthy travel anywhere!!

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5. What is you destination? Are there travel advisories?
What is the weather for the time of year of your travel?

6. Pack for the expected weather !
What is you destination?
Are there travel advisories?
What is the weather for the time of year of
your travel?

7. "You've got to be very careful if you don't know
where you are going, because you might not get
there." Yogi Berra

8. Research your destination
with the CDC travel website
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/

9. Where are you going?
What kind of traveler are you?
(optional)
Traveling with Children
Chronic Disease
Cruise Ship
Extended Stay/Study Abroad
Immune-Compromised Travelers
Pregnant Women
Mission/Disaster Relief
Visiting Friends or Family
For Travelers

10. CDC’s TravWell app helps you plan for safe and
healthy international travel. Build a trip to get
destination-specific vaccine recommendations,
a checklist of what you need to do to prepare for
travel, and a customizable healthy travel packing
list. The app also lets you store travel
documents, keep a record of your medications
and immunizations, and set reminders to get
vaccine booster doses or take medicines while
you’re traveling.

11. S mart T raveler E nrollment P rogram
U.S. Department of State
https://travel.state.gov
STEP
The International Association for Medical
Assistance to Travelers www.iamat.org;
membership required, but it is free

12. Immunizations
Routine childhood
Varicella
MMR booster
Hepatitis A
Influenza
Tetanus/pertussis
(TdaP)
Hepatitis B
Pneumonia
Shingles

13. Immunizations for Travel
Typhoid
Yellow fever
Hepatitis A
Cholera
IPV

14. Optional Head treatment
Body copy
Travel Kit

15. MEDICATIONS FOR TRAVEL
ROUTINE PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS (BRING ENOUGH FOR
YOUR TRIP PLUS ONE WEEK)
OVER THE COUNTER MEDS SUCH AS YOUR FAVORITE
COLD REMEDIES, IMODIUM FOR DIARRHEA, PEPTO,
IBUBROFEN, NAPROXEN, ASPIRIN, BENADRYL OR
ALLERGY MEDS ETC.
ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION
MALARIA PROPHYLAXIS AS REQUIRED

17. Sunscreen, insect repellant,
clothing protection (hats etc)

18. ZIKA VIRUS
The greatest concern is infection
during pregnancy.

20. Travelers to an area with a CDC Zika travel
notice
•Take steps to prevent mosquito bites.
•If the female partner was exposed to this
area*, wait at least 8 weeks after the last
possible exposure or after symptoms start
(if she developed symptoms) before trying
to conceive. During this waiting period, use
condoms or do not have sex.
•If the male partner was exposed to this
area*, wait at least 6 months after the last
possible exposure or after symptoms start
(if he developed symptoms) before trying
to conceive. During this waiting period, use
condoms or do not have sex.

21. DENGUE, CHICV, ZIKA,MALARIA

23. Water and Ice

27. Prevent theft and accidents
with Situational Awareness

28. Travel humanitarian
or disaster relief

29. For disaster &
humanitarian
aid you made
need to bring
food, water,
shelter, and
security.

30. After you return home…..

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