Staying Healthy When You Travel, New Edition: Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More

by Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth

Overview

The ultimate guide to research, plan, and prepare for your next vacation abroad, Staying Healthy When You Travel is filled with over 300 pages that will prepare you for anything! Author Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is an expert in parasitology, vector ecology, and child health, and she's also traveled around the world to treat the sick. She condenses all her years of medical experience into this incredibly helpful guide that's packed with international travel tips and crucial case histories, advice on immunizations and other precautions to take, tables and maps that match disease risk to countries, health tips to protect yourself from insects and worms, and so much more. While the author wrote this book with the world traveler in mind, it is also an excellent source for anyone who spends time outside camping or hiking or traveling locally, with helpful advice on protection from mosquitos, treatments for minor injuries, and first aid for cuts wouldn, dehydration, fainting, snake bites and more! So before you prepare to travel in a post-COVID world and head to the airport, do your research with this travel book and you'll be good to go!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620083796
Publisher:	CompanionHouse Books
Publication date:	12/19/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is a medical doctor with expertise in zoology and parasite biology. She has worked for more than 15 years on child survival and also health and hygiene promotion in Madagascar, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Nepal, as well as with Syrian refugees in Greece. She was also medical director of a travel immunization clinic for 11 years and served as a general practitioner (family physician) in Cambridgeshire for 15 years. Most recently she has been mentoring paramedics in remote Himalayan villages as well as COVID-vaccinating in East Anglia. Jane wrote the first edition of her comprehensive travel health guide, Bugs, Bites&Bowels, while living without electricity on an island in the largest tributary of the Ganges and since the book was first launched, it has sold tens of thousands of copies. Staying Healthy When You Travel is the sixth edition of this successful and popular text. Jane has written eight other books, which are detailed on her author website www.wilson-howarth.com.

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth's thorough guide on staying healthy while traveling is an incredible piece to add to your travel toolkit. She covers rarely talked-about syndromes like reverse culture shock and offers easy-to-follow, practical advice that could potentially save your life . or at the very least, save your vacation. - Kristy Alpert, author, and freelance travel journalist with Travel + Leisure, Cosmopolitan, Global Traveler, Fodor's Travel, and more.

From the Publisher

05/01/2024

In this updated sixth edition, Wilson-Howarth continues to use her medical degree and extensive experience overseas to prepare travelers before departure, while traveling, and upon return. Along with detailed notes on avoiding and treating diarrhea, tummy troubles, and diseases, sections address air quality, extreme heat and cold, parasites, accidents, and dehydration. Wilson-Howarth has a practical and positive attitude, discouraging fear of travel but encouraging common sense and reasonable precautions. Boxed case histories from various sources are quick reminders, often of plans gone awry. Summary pages introduce each section, and ample charts and maps give at-a-glance info on malaria hot spots and "Diseases Transmitted by Small Biters." VERDICT Informative without being scary. Previously published as Bug, Bites, and Bowels, this updated version is a worthy and comprehensive replacement.

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