Travel Medicine Services—Preparing For Travel Health & Safety:

My specialized travel health and travel medicine services for you—as a protected and safe globe-trotting traveler—include:

• Preparing a health-protection travel plan based on CDC and WHO recommendations.
• Reviewing travel health alerts pertaining to your destination(s).
• Tailoring preventive-medicine regimens that include travel vaccinations as needed—
  
  
  • Immunizations Available: Yellow Fever (Yellow Fever Immunization Certificate), Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Typhoid, Measles and Rabies.
  • Malaria Prevention: Antibiotic recommendation based on your medical history, preference, duration of travel and destination(s).
  • Traveler’s Diarrhea: Preventive strategies addressed; antibiotic prescriptions are appropriate for most travelers.
    
    
• Finally, maintaining your international travel immunization records and current vaccinations for foreign travel.
  

Living in World Portal New York, you’re more likely to be among the 45 million Americans who travel abroad each year. Whether international business travel, overseas vacation or a combined foreign profits-and-pleasure trip, nearly half—about 20 million of you—will visit developing countries and/or spend time in Second World ex-urban areas. If you’re among this latter group of overseas travelers, you’re at greater risk of contracting travel-related disease than those who journey simply to Paris or Tokyo.

As an international traveler of any kind, you need to be concerned about avoiding infectious illnesses and health hazards you might encounter. This means careful pre-travel planning. Brooklyn Heights Family Practice can help you address threats stretching from traveler’s diarrhea to travel vaccinations and travel immunizations to food and water hygiene to environmental risks (such as severe pollution).

In addition, some countries require certain travel immunizations in order to obtain a visa to visit. Such “trip shots” may necessitate a series of vaccinations that often must begin at least a month prior to international travel. Contact us at BHFP to learn more about healthy travel and the timing of your travel medicine protection regimen.