Vaccinations for Thailand?
Oct 20th, 2008 | 07:19 AM
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Vaccinations for Thailand?
Traveling to Bangkok, Chiang Region and the beaches/islands in late Nov-early Dec; curious if it's either recommended or mandatory to have vaccinations to enter Thailand? And if so, if there's a clinic specializing in these shots we should go to in NYC? Thanks so much!
Oct 20th, 2008 | 03:06 PM
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(none are required... just so you know that some of us don't get shots for your same destinations) You will find a number of posters here who recommend certain shots. Up to you. Me... I have some very strange allergies and have not had so much as a flu shot in 43 years!! I don't intend to start now, since the last one I had put me in the hospital.
Oct 21st, 2008 | 07:19 AM
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Oct 21st, 2008 | 07:35 AM
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I remember having to recover from various vaccinations, so like simpsonc said it's "up to you." Besides, only you would know how healthy you are and what are you sensitive to. Some friends have very sensitive stomachs, so only cooked food, bottled water and no ice are for them. Some are so allergic to insects, so repellents that they are not allergic to(yes, ironic!) are well tested and packed along. Eat healthy (whole, high fiber, low sugar, salt and fat) foods, and plan good daily rest is a way to go.
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Oct 22nd, 2008 | 07:04 AM
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Jed...Yes, I've taken almost all of those. When I went to Ghana in 2003/2004 and 2004/2005, I had to take a Yellow Fever shot, so while I was doing that, I took a few others. I took what my sister, who's a doctor, recommended. I also took the one for Meningitis. She'd just gotten over a case of Meningitis contracted from a patient I think it was.
I was not thrilled to have to take anything since I became violently ill back in 73 when I had to take shots for my first overseas trip. The shots nearly killed me.
Those shots, in 73, left me in bed for weeks and I really think it did something to my immune system because, within a few weeks of the shots, I acquired some severe food allergies to foods that I had never reacted to before and of which I still can't eat to this day.
I was only going to Denmark, back then, but the student group that I was participating in required the shots.
So, when I found out that I would have to take a Yellow Fever shot for Ghana, I almost canceled the trip. But, I went on and took it and hoped for the best. However, I refused to have them all given to me on the same day. I spaced them a couple of weeks apart and then of, course, before leaving I had to start up the Malarone. More stuff into my system.
I took very sick in Ghana. The last time I remember being that sick was in 73. Part of it was having contacted something from a very sick passenger on the plane and then probably dealing with a compromised immune system due to all the stuff in my system.
Since I travel alone, I alerted the front desk, at the hotel, to check up on me from time to time. I ended up redoing the whole trip a year later.
My friends usually say I have an iron-clad immune system because 99% of the time I'm not sick at home. I can be coughed on during the whole flu season and come out fine. I've never taken a flu shot in my life and haven't had a flu in over 20 years. But what messes my system up is travel shots. I came down with nothing, while traveling from 1973-2003 and had been on every continent, including Africa twice. Then back to the shots, in 2003 and messing up my system. Happy Travels!
I was not thrilled to have to take anything since I became violently ill back in 73 when I had to take shots for my first overseas trip. The shots nearly killed me.
Those shots, in 73, left me in bed for weeks and I really think it did something to my immune system because, within a few weeks of the shots, I acquired some severe food allergies to foods that I had never reacted to before and of which I still can't eat to this day.
I was only going to Denmark, back then, but the student group that I was participating in required the shots.
So, when I found out that I would have to take a Yellow Fever shot for Ghana, I almost canceled the trip. But, I went on and took it and hoped for the best. However, I refused to have them all given to me on the same day. I spaced them a couple of weeks apart and then of, course, before leaving I had to start up the Malarone. More stuff into my system.
I took very sick in Ghana. The last time I remember being that sick was in 73. Part of it was having contacted something from a very sick passenger on the plane and then probably dealing with a compromised immune system due to all the stuff in my system.
Since I travel alone, I alerted the front desk, at the hotel, to check up on me from time to time. I ended up redoing the whole trip a year later.
My friends usually say I have an iron-clad immune system because 99% of the time I'm not sick at home. I can be coughed on during the whole flu season and come out fine. I've never taken a flu shot in my life and haven't had a flu in over 20 years. But what messes my system up is travel shots. I came down with nothing, while traveling from 1973-2003 and had been on every continent, including Africa twice. Then back to the shots, in 2003 and messing up my system. Happy Travels!
Oct 22nd, 2008 | 12:36 PM
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iawlbg, I'm going to Thailand and Bhutan in a little more than a week and visited the travel clinic at Northwestern University Hospital near my office. They recommended and jabbed me with shots for Hep A/B, TDAP (Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis Vaccines), Typhoid, and the flu. Knowing that I'm going to Tanzania in a year, I agreed to all. I'm super healthy, so wasn't terribly worried, but went along with the recommendations. We're not going to malaria-prone areas, so am not on any prophylaxis for that. The shots didn't bother me at all.
