travellers Flashcards
travellers should be careful with
disease spread through food water, blood and bodily fluids, insects
Which resource is for international travelling
yellow boook for vaccine
travellers diarrhea
blood in stool
with fever
mostly bacterial by E coli, salmonella, shijella, campylobacter
TD prevention
avoid buffet food
washed food
bottle water or boiled for a min
avoid ice
tx for travellers diarrhea
pepto bismol
- do not with allergy to ASA, pregnant renal insufficiency and gout, ulcer, anticoag mtx
hydration
abx tx
antimotility drug
prophylaxis
bisputh pepto
abx rifaxim
treatment for TD
loperamide
pepto
azithromycin
rifaxim
tx for severe TD
abx +loperamide
typhoid
salmonella typhi
HA, malaise, fatigue enlargement of spleen
vaccines
safe water and food
can typhoid vaccine be used in <6 yeasrs
no
vivotif an oral live vaccine
cholera
rice water stool
vaccine vaxchora
oral live
>10 days before travel
polio
inactivated vacccine
hep A
vaccine preventable
HAVRIX, VAQTA
TWINRIX
Hep B
contaminated blood or body fluid
3 dose vaccine takes 6 months to complete
Energix
twinrix
meningitis
fever stiff neck
respiratory secretion transmission
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