Viajarsano.com, website of reference before you leave home.

This Web site, that counts with the collaboration of GlaxoSmithKline, has spent eight years offering information on travel and health.

-Provides specific recommendations country by country, a complete list of diseases, vaccination tips and a guide for the traveller

Madrid, July 2010.- the Spanish society of Tropical Medicine and Health International (SEMETS), with the technical of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) collaboration, offers travelers rigorous information mainly concerning health and travel through the Viajarsano web of free access for the general public.

www.viajarsano.com is the website of reference for the traveller, especially at this time that increase international transfers. This portal informs of sanitary precautions before embarking on a trip, also offered practical advice on vaccinations, disease, and specific recommendations depending on the country of destination.

According to Dr. Rogelio López-Velez, director of the initiative and responsibility for the unit of Tropical Medicine at the Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, the website is structured in such a way that allows easy and comfortable access and offers a very complete information for those interested.

Is possible to report accurately – explains the doctor López-Vélez – of the necessary precautions when it comes to embark on a journey. The traveller needs individualized advice because the epidemiology changes. Naturally, the chances of contracting a disease vary greatly according to the conditions of travel and the peculiarities of the traveller. The risk factors most supported in the type of trip are rucksack and adventure routes, stay in rural areas away from the usual tourist circuits, the journey over four weeks and having as destination the Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the rainy season ”.

The website was the first characteristics to March Spanish in the year 2002 and its value has been increasing with various updates. Recently has been a review in depth and have expanded the content, including information about new diseases and upgrading specific recommendations about precautions to take in each country.

Vaccination has a decisive impact on the prevention of infectious diseases. One of the most useful information is the location of the vaccination centres in each autonomous community, which is essential to go before undertaking any international travel, as well as information on recommended vaccinations depending on the country you’re going to visit and the planned risk such as hepatitis A virus and vaccines mandatory in certain circumstances and (b), the difteria-tétanos or typhoid fever, among others.

Malaria or malaria for its wide distribution is a disease that requires a specific section that provides detailed information on how it is produced and its consequences, how to avoid, when to suspect, how to diagnose and how to deal with her.

Passenger guide

The website includes an ‘ Traveler Guide ’ with General advice on specific issues such as rules for traveling with children, during the pregnancy, if it’s older people or when you have a chronic disease.

How to protect themselves from the Sun and heat, protection against arthropod or acclimatization to high altitude are other sections of this guide. This is not to mention other aspects such as the food risks and by water, economy class syndrome or jet lag.

Moreover, even if trip is over and now we are back at home there which ‘ lower our guard at all ’ that some tropical diseases are not manifest immediately.

Another issue that should not be forgotten when traveling is the preparation of a first aid kit with medical supplies. Www.viajarsano.com recommends include basic medicines to treat common ailments, for first aid items and any special product may require the traveler personally.

Medications that need prescription must be accompanied by a report signed by a physician which expose the traveller needs that medication for his personal treatment based on their diagnosis.

Also please carry medicines in hand baggage to avoid possible losses during the trip but more desirable would be duplicate equipment in checked baggage.

SEMETS

www.viajarsano.com is part of the external coverage of the Spanish society of Tropical Medicine and international health (SEMETS), a multidisciplinary medical society composed of more than 400 specialists dealing, inter alia, the issue of the medicine of the traveler from points of view as diverse as basic researchmedical attention and international cooperation.