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When to travel |
13.
Health Travel Tips |
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Who to travel with |
14.
Desert Travel |
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How to get there |
15.
Ocean River Travel |
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Where to stay |
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| Travel
Health |
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| Altitude
Sickness |
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You
are more likely to encounter altitude sickness when you are travelling
at the height of 2500 or more. Altitude sickness arises when your
body ascended too fast without allowing it to accomodate for lower
oxygen level. The usual symptoms are headache, nauseous, irregular
breathing and it may also lead to a more server condition such
as difficulities in breathing, unusal behaviour, unsteadiness
or even coma.
Inorder
to avoid altitude sickness, it is best to ascend slowly, rest
take plenty of fluids, avoid alcohol, eat light meals and do not
smoke.
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| Dehydration |
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is important to maintain an adequate fluid intake. Ensure that you
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| Ear
Pain |
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in air pressure during ascending and desending often disturb the
pressure between the middke and outer ear. This situation is called
"Ear Popping". To relieve the pressure,chew, yawn, suck
some sweets, swallow your saliva or just pinch your nose and breathe
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| Jet
Lag |
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is due to the readjustment that your body has to make after you
travelled across a time zone. See our article
section to beat jet lag. |
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| Traveller
Diarrhoea |
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is a common illness that bugs a traveller. Symptons are usually
caused by unaccustomed food and drink, chnage in environment, change
in the normal bacteria flora in the bowels and sometimes vira infection.
The general rule to prevent this illness is to "boil it",
"cook it", "peel it" or "forget it" |
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| Motion
Sickness |
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A
person suffers from motion sickness when the brains receives too
many and mixed movement signals from the eyes and the organs of
balance in the ears. Symptoms includes dizziness, profuse cold
sweat, pallor, headache, nausea and lost of appetite.
You
can prevent motion sickness by taking relevant medication like
Dramamine Tablet, about 30min before departure time only if you
are not driving. Also try to eat lightlyavoid alcohol, look forward
or at a distant stationary object throughout the trip, sleep and
avoid reading, stress and smoking.
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