You have everything ready for your holiday trip, or so you think. Packed bags, fueled car, or bought tickets, documents. What about your travel first aid kit to help you with your first need. Plasters, hydrogen peroxide, motion sickness remedies. You have to think about everything carefully and plan precisely so that the time of relaxation, which is supposed to be a holiday, does not turn out to be a rush to the pharmacies. What rules should you follow to spend a nice time with your family, relax, have fun and not worry about tiring ailments or mosquitoes. Here’s what you need to do?
If your journey is to last several hours, think over its stages to prevent life-threatening thrombosis. Changes in pressure, air humidity or lack of movement can lead to this. Do not sit in one position for a long time, if you have the opportunity, get up, “stretch your bones”, take a walk. You can also use the emergency and prophylactic procedure, i.e. start taking aspirin a few days before the planned departure. It thins the blood and prevents clots from forming. Do not wear uncomfortable shoes or tight socks or knee-highs. On a plane or train, choose a seat near the aisle to stretch your legs.
Motion sickness is a big problem for many people. Holiday boat trips or constant movement can activate it. Take care of the appropriate means that you will have at hand and that will allow you to enjoy your free time and not worry about nausea and embarrassing vomiting.
Holidays in a tent, hiking or forest camps can expose you to the attacks of mosquitoes and blackflies or dangerous ticks. Bites are not life threatening, but they can be bothersome and tiring. Constant itching can effectively disgust any outing. Since what attracts our little, buzzing enemies is our smell, let’s scare it away. In addition to the remedies available in pharmacies and drugstores against flying nuisances, we can use natural remedies such as: geranium, mint, tomato leaves. Mosquitoes also hate smoke, so let’s add a few sage leaves to the fire or grill. Because what they don’t like the most is the smell of vitamin B1. When you are bitten, use a soothing gel. A bigger problem is caused by ticks that carry dangerous meningitis or Lyme disease. The tick should be removed as soon as possible by twisting it, not pulling or squeezing it. The place after it should be observed, if it starts to turn red, you should go to the doctor for an antibiotic.
Vacation time is also traveling abroad to explore the bacterial flora that is foreign to our body. So let’s be careful what we eat and where. Choose cooked foods or fruits that can be peeled off: bananas, mangoes, oranges. Let’s drink bottled water and do not add ice cubes to it. The optimal amount of water will allow us to avoid dehydration in hot weather. If we use these few clever ways, food poisoning and diarrhea will be harmless to us. However, it is worth having medicines in your bag that will help if you fall for the “curse of the Pharaoh”.
Take care of your skin properly to come back from vacation with a beautiful tan and not disfiguring burns. Choose a cosmetic with a filter suitable for your skin type. Protect your eyes, wear sunglasses. Conjunctivitis then will not be dangerous for you. Walk in comfortable footwear that will hold your ankle well, don’t go on a mountain trail in sandals just because it’s hot. You will then avoid blisters and sprains.
There are still a lot of rules you can follow; do not eat unknown mushrooms, watch out for snakes, do not approach wild animals, even if they look harmless, watch out for poisonous and stinging plants. If you remember these rules and repeat them like a mantra, your vacation will be full of positive adventures.