Healthy Student Travel - About Student Travel Health
Being fit and healthy is vital to student travelers. Let's learn how to avoid health hazards and about the intricacies of travel health insurance and international health care costs.
Travel Immunizations - Travel Shots and Immunizations
Travel shots and immunizations - do I need travel immunizations or shots for travel? What kind of travel immunizations do I need? Get the answers about travel vaccinations.
Travel shots and immunizations - do I need travel immunizations or shots for travel? What kind of travel immunizations do I need? Get the answers about travel vaccinations.
Toilets Around the World - Toilet Talk for Travelers
Whether appealing or appalling to your Westernized sensibilities, toilets around the world serve the same purpose, and you'll need to use 'em. You can't flush toilet paper in many countries' toilets, and you may not get toilet paper to begin with or the toilet paper may be reminiscent of fine sandpaper. Let's talk toilets (and traveler's diarrhea, too).
Whether appealing or appalling to your Westernized sensibilities, toilets around the world serve the same purpose, and you'll need to use 'em. You can't flush toilet paper in many countries' toilets, and you may not get toilet paper to begin with or the toilet paper may be reminiscent of fine sandpaper. Let's talk toilets (and traveler's diarrhea, too).
Malaria and Travel
Malaria, a creepy insect-borne disease found in warm areas, is a very real travel worry if you're heading to a country where malaria is prevalent, like many countries in Africa. Check out a malaria map from the CDC to learn whether malaria is an issue in countries to which you will be traveling. Learn about malaria symptoms, malaria prevention, including malaria pills, and treatment.
Malaria, a creepy insect-borne disease found in warm areas, is a very real travel worry if you're heading to a country where malaria is prevalent, like many countries in Africa. Check out a malaria map from the CDC to learn whether malaria is an issue in countries to which you will be traveling. Learn about malaria symptoms, malaria prevention, including malaria pills, and treatment.
Bedbugs and Travel - Hostels Will Have Bedbugs and Other Bed Bug Myths
Bedbugs are simply not the travel scourge your mother thinks they are for student travelers and backpackers. Bedbugs don't transmit disease and hostels don't harbor bedbugs any more than hoity hotels. Let's lay some bedbug myths to rest -- bedbugs are not the bane of backpackers and student travel.
Bedbugs are simply not the travel scourge your mother thinks they are for student travelers and backpackers. Bedbugs don't transmit disease and hostels don't harbor bedbugs any more than hoity hotels. Let's lay some bedbug myths to rest -- bedbugs are not the bane of backpackers and student travel.
Avoid Infectious Diseases Abroad
Avoid malaria, yellow fever, rabies and other infectious diseases with immunizations where possible and care combined with common sense.
Avoid malaria, yellow fever, rabies and other infectious diseases with immunizations where possible and care combined with common sense.
Avoid or Deal With Motion Sickness
Nothing ruins a trip like getting motion sickness; ways to deal with car sickness, seasickness and avoiding the barf bag on a plane.
Nothing ruins a trip like getting motion sickness; ways to deal with car sickness, seasickness and avoiding the barf bag on a plane.
Date Rape Drugs
Date rape drugs like roofies, GHB and ketamine are dropped into your drink to render you helpless and amnesiacal. They not only make you vulnerable to sexual assault, but their side effects can seriously harm your health and even kill you. Get the facts.
Date rape drugs like roofies, GHB and ketamine are dropped into your drink to render you helpless and amnesiacal. They not only make you vulnerable to sexual assault, but their side effects can seriously harm your health and even kill you. Get the facts.
CDC Yellow Book - Health Information For International Travel 2005-200
CDC's Yellow Book 2005-2006: travelers' health and safety tips - immunizations, vaccinations, travel hazards, wild animal attacks, disease prevention (mad cow disease, river blindness, plague, yellow fever, malaria), travelers' health risks and diseases by country or world area.
CDC's Yellow Book 2005-2006: travelers' health and safety tips - immunizations, vaccinations, travel hazards, wild animal attacks, disease prevention (mad cow disease, river blindness, plague, yellow fever, malaria), travelers' health risks and diseases by country or world area.
Best Personal Travel Gear 2005 - Top Toiletry Travel Gear 2005
Best personal travel gear 2005 - top toiletry travel gear like best razor, best feminine hygiene product, best over the counter travel drug, best insect repellent and best personal care travel item overall. Read reviews and compare prices.
Best personal travel gear 2005 - top toiletry travel gear like best razor, best feminine hygiene product, best over the counter travel drug, best insect repellent and best personal care travel item overall. Read reviews and compare prices.
Travel First Aid Kit - Travel First Aid Kit Supplies
Travel First Aid Kit - Travel First Aid Kit Supplies
Travel First Aid Kit - Travel First Aid Kit Supplies
International Student Travel Health Insurance
International health Insurance, or ISI, offers student travelers several health insurance options; the basic plan's premiums range from $36 to $60 per month depending on amount of coverage. Medical visits, hospital stays, emergency evacuations and more are covered. ISI also offers traveling students options like trip cancellation insurance. Get covered!
International health Insurance, or ISI, offers student travelers several health insurance options; the basic plan's premiums range from $36 to $60 per month depending on amount of coverage. Medical visits, hospital stays, emergency evacuations and more are covered. ISI also offers traveling students options like trip cancellation insurance. Get covered!
List of Doctors and Hospitals Abroad
A comprehensive list of doctors and medical facilities in 37 countries, courtesy of the U.S. Department of State. Choose your country and print the list or jot down the website before you leave home.
A comprehensive list of doctors and medical facilities in 37 countries, courtesy of the U.S. Department of State. Choose your country and print the list or jot down the website before you leave home.
American Consulate List of Doctors and Hospitals Abroad
"U.S. Embassies and Consulates maintain lists of physicians and medical facilities for distribution to American citizens needing medical care. The inclusion of a specific physician or medical facility does not constitute a recommendation and the Department of State assumes no responsibility or liability."
"U.S. Embassies and Consulates maintain lists of physicians and medical facilities for distribution to American citizens needing medical care. The inclusion of a specific physician or medical facility does not constitute a recommendation and the Department of State assumes no responsibility or liability."
International SOS - American Medical Help Abroad
Your paid membership to International SOS offers emergency evacuations and repatriations, prescription replacement and guarantee of medical expenses. Great resource.
Your paid membership to International SOS offers emergency evacuations and repatriations, prescription replacement and guarantee of medical expenses. Great resource.
Frugal Sunburn Remedies
Sunburn can ruin a student traveler's trip fast. Who wants to watch the beach action from the upper floor of a shaded hostel? Avoid sunburn and find cheap remedies.
Sunburn can ruin a student traveler's trip fast. Who wants to watch the beach action from the upper floor of a shaded hostel? Avoid sunburn and find cheap remedies.
Avoid and Treat Heatstroke
I've had heat exhaustion - quel drag (sweating, cramps. hideous headache and vomiting). Heatstroke - now we're talkin' death. Brain fry. Permanent vegetation. Don't go there!
I've had heat exhaustion - quel drag (sweating, cramps. hideous headache and vomiting). Heatstroke - now we're talkin' death. Brain fry. Permanent vegetation. Don't go there!