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MEDICAL
KIT & CHECKLIST
- Take Medical Kit - see below
- ? Recent Dental Check
- Spare pair of Glasses & lens prescription
- Travel insurance - Travel
insurance should cover not only medical & hospital expenses but also costs due to
general accidents, medical evacuation, loss of luggage & money, as well as delays due
to strikes.
- Loose cotton clothing and talcum powder will reduce heat rash. Avoid
Bare Feet when outside. Skin penetrating parasites abound in the wet soil of Africa,
south-east Asia and western pacific
 countries
- Contingency plan for extra money
Medical Kit
- Analgesic: Panadol
- Antihistamines: - tablets and or cream
- Antiseptic: (Betadine) - can also be used for
water disinfection
- Antifungal: (tinea and thrush)
- Antiemetic: metoclopramide or stemetil
(script required), use antihistamine in children (eg phenergan)
- Broad Spectrum Antibiotic: - doxycycline (over
8 years), amoxycillin chewable tabs
- Condoms: - overseas condoms often
unreliable
- Dressings: bandaids, bandages, steristrips
& sterile dressings
for minor lacerations & burns
- Eczema - & cortisone cream
- Eye drops - emollient for dry eyes & or allergy eye drops
- Insect
bites & eczema -
antihistamine, cortisone cream & talcum powder
- Insect Repellent (DEET) - Rid, Aerogard
tropical, Bushman's Gel, Mosiguards (Wrist and Ankle bands.)
- Insecticide - knock down spray and/or permethrin (especially backpackers and safari tours)
- Sleeping tablet - temazepam,
zolpidem (stilnox) - script required
- Other - Sunscreen, sunburn cream (may not be available
overseas)
Diarrhoea Kit:
- antiparasite - Tinidazole (long stay or remote travel - script
required)
- stopper - loperamide
- rehydrating solution - gastrolyte (essential if taking
children)
Longer Stay & Trekkers
NB. Remember to
pack Information sheets - self treatment of
Information mostly taken from:
"International
Travel and Health" (WHO year book -
internet only)
Australian Immunisation Handbook, 8th Edition - 9/2003 - Part1 - Part 2 & Part 3 (large pdf
files)
Centre for Disease Control, USA - www.cdc.gov/travel Travel Health Seminar Oct 96, June 97,Feb 98, March 99, May 2000, August 2002 &
March 2005 - Victorian Medical Postgraduate Foundation.
Manual of Travel Medicine,
Melbourne, Oct 2004.
Updated 06/09/2006. Additional references & disclaimer.
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East Valley Division General Practice, Victoria,
Australia, Disclaimer
Level 1, Pathology Building, Repatriation Campus, A&RMC,
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