2010. december 28., kedd

Vaccinations, medicines

I'm shot. Shot by several vaccinations, but at least now i cant get (theoretically) neither Diphtheria, nor Tetanus, Polio, Typhus, Hepatitis A, Meningitis, Hepatitis B.. and i even got a drinkable "vaccination" against Cholera and some stomach inflammation virus thingy.. it costs some 42.500 HUF and around half an hour of one's life at the National Center of Epidemiology at Gyáli út.

The thing that is missing -and was the topic of a long consideration- is Rabies. I mean the vaccination protecting from rabies. I gathered information from several sources: the doctor at the epidemiology, friends who have been to Asia, Bruno, my ex, and the final decision was to take the slightly higher risk and not taking the vaccination in advance. The reason basically was that you have to find a doctor anyway in case of accident with a sick animal in a quite short notice with or without vaccination, that probably stops your trip anyway.. With vaccination you need less new vaccines, but you do need them anyway..

And the last question in the topic is malaria. No vaccination is available at the moment but as Asia is highly infected, its almost a must to think about it and be prepared. The three main medicine options were doxycycline, maladrone and lariam.
I read some scary feedbacks about lariam, but basically it wouldn't scare me enough not to take that in case.
I also got a maladrone prescription at the epidemiology, but they said 5-7 pills cost around 11000 HUF, some 40€, and you have to take it one week before arrival to the infected area and keep taking 2 weeks after departure.
After my research on the topic (also checking with friends with experience, ex and forums) i decided to take doxcycline, and with my doctor we found 200 pills of them for a price of 2300 HUF, 8€, with the note that you have to take it 1 week in advance and 4 weeks after leaving risky area. The possible side effect of doxycycline -and the reason why the doctor didnt advice this- is higher photosensitivity but after the discussions with some experienced ones, it seemed a quite low possibility to have it, and there are side effect with the other two options also, so i take this risk.

Some words about medicines
I'm almost done with the list to buy before departure, and the basic things on the list are paracetamol, diclofenac, loperamid, betadine, some gauze, hansaplast, some of my contraceptive pills, and basically thats it. Fortunately Bruno also some stuff as far as i know, so it shouldnt be a problem..

So from the health preparation thats it. Beside this i visited my dentist, made everything done for a long journey, also visited my gynecologist just to make sure, and after visiting most of the doctors of the county, i felt myself ready to go. :)

Here we go! We are in less than a month until departure

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