Are you planning a summer vacation? Along with your sandals, bathing suit, travel guide and medications, don’t forget to pack your prescriptions. Trying to replace your pills in an unfamiliar place can be a real hassle.
Advice from a Frequent Traveler:
Q. Before leaving on a trip, scan a copy of your medical and eyeglass prescriptions. Attach them to an email that you send to yourself. Then they will always be as available as the nearest Internet connection wherever you are in the world. You might want to include the contact information of the doctors who wrote the prescriptions.
Staying Healthy on Vacation:
A. Thanks for this helpful suggestion just in time for summer vacation. Losing eyeglasses or a prescription can ruin a trip. Running out of a crucial prescription medication on vacation can also be a big problem, but having a copy of your prescription in your travel kit or your email allows you to remedy that problem much more easily.
Make sure you take along your pills or other medicines, even some you don’t use every day. If you need an asthma inhaler while you are camping out, you need it-even if you haven’t been using it daily.
Pay Attention to Prevention:
You’ve doubtless spent some time planning the attractions you’ll visit and booking your lodging. As a result, you know something about the conditions you’ll encounter. It makes sense to take along effective insect repellent (with DEET or picaridin) if mosquitoes, biting flies or ticks are common at your destination. Sunscreen is usually a must for summer vacation. Here’s a link to Consumer Reports recommendations.
Let us know what other medicines you consider essential when you travel.
