Welcome to Travelturtle, the site providing health advice for travel that provides you with country specific medical and vaccination reports usually only available to registered UK healthcare professionals.
Click on the links below to find everything you need to know regarding health advice for travel and tips on all aspects of travellers health. The information in this section will provide tailored travellers health advice according to the different types of travel, from backpacking to aid work. In addition following the links to discover the risk travelers face from sunburn and also how to make traveling abroad with the elderly or with children a safe and enjoyable experience.
Finally, learn more about the most prevalent diseases any addition risks to travellers health for those with Pre-Existing Conditions such as Diabetes or Asthma.
Health Advice for Travelling
Travel Type
- Aid Work
- Backpacking
- Business Travel
- Holiday in resorts or towns
- Moving Abroad
- Visiting relatives
Risk Factors
- Accidents
- Children and travel
- Elderly travel
- Food and drink
- Sex and travel
- Staying at altitude (above 2000m)
- Staying in simple rural locations
- Sunburn
- Taking part in adventure activities
Diseases
- African trypanosomiasis
- Avian influenza (bird flu)
- Cholera
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dengue
- Diphtheria
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Japanese encephalitis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Meningitis
- Polio
- Rabies
- Schistosomiasis
- South American trypanosomiasis
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Travellers’ diarrhoea
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid
- Yellow Fever
PRE EXISTING CONDITION
- Asthma
- COPD
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Mental illness
- Pregnancy
