Travel Safety Tips
Travel safety tips
- Learn more about the destination
- Avoid attention drawing
- Make hard copies of important documents
- Travelling documents
- Health and allergy card
- List of medication
- Emergency contact
- Keep your friends and family updated
- Beware of public Wi-Fi
- Safeguard your hotel room
- Check with your doctor about your trip and related health issues
- Avoid wild animals such as monkeys, rodents, bats, birds, dogs
- Eat healthy meals
- Clean food and water
- Adequate sleep
- Avoid drug and alcohol
- Skin protection
- Wash hand frequently
- Appropriate clothing
Common health issues related to travelling (ask your doctor on the specific illness prevention)
- Asthma
- Motion sickness
- Respiratory infections
- Jet lag
- Allergy
- Gastric pain
- Food poisoning
- Sunburns
- Bug/animal bites
- Accidents
- Mountain sickness
- Heat stroke
- Deep vein thrombosis (long haul flight)
Travel health check list
- Vaccination (ask your doctor for details)
- Influenza vaccine
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Pneumococcal vaccine
- Shingles
- Chickenpox
- Doctor prescription of your daily medication
- Emergency medicine
- Sunscreen
- Skin and lip moisturizer
- Health card stating the medicines you are allergic to, medical history, list of medications, and immunisation records.
- Travel insurance covering trip cancellation or disruption, medical services, accidents, and medical evacuation
- Emergency contact card
- Common medicines
- Gastric medicines
- Diarrhoea medicines
- Antibiotic
- Allergy medicine
- Cough and flu medicine
- Motion sickness medicine
- Pain killer
- Sleeping pills (for jetlag)
- first-aid kit (plaster, gauze, bandage)
- hand sanitizer / anti-bacterial wipes
- Mosquito repellents
- high-quality face mask