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HEALTH |
VACCINATIONS |
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The elementary advices of hygiene concern, first of all, the protection against polluted waters and stings of mosquitoes. As a consequence, it is recommended to drink only some packaged water (we find there everywhere), of not eat in the street that the cooked dishes and to protect itself effectively mosquitoes at nightfall with repulsive cutaneous and of atmosphere. In the arrival in Thailand, a period of adaptation is necessary to acclimatize in the heat and in the humidity, it is necessary to drink a lot and to consume some salt to avoid dehydration and the fatigue.
The food is healthy and varied, the sanitary conditions of restaurants are globally satisfactory although there is no health control, workshops of street are not recommended but do not present risk For cooked dishes (rices or pastas fried, have supper). Nobody is shielded from her classical tourista of the traveler. The specific food of the infants is easily in cities. The endemic diseases are the tetanus, the poliomyelitis, the hepatitis A and, in certain rural zones the malaria and the Japanese encephalitis.
Involving the hospitable infrastructure, the situation is uneven: certain regions ( In broad outline the centre of the country, the tourist zones and the big cities) offer sanitary conditions close to European countries, with, in particular, Hospitals of international quality in the main cities of the country; others regions (in broad outline in the suburb) know sanitary conditions Precarious, without infrastructures and with all the tropical pathologies endemic. |
Although no inoculation is compulsory, it is recommended to seek one medical opinion for: - The DT polio: three injections in a month of interval, a reminder in one year, then a reminder all 10 years; - The typhoid: an injection, then reminder every three years; - Hepatitis A and B if there is no immunization (control of the rate of antibody by a blood test); for the hepatitis A: two injections in a month of interval, a reminder in one year; for the hepatitis B: two injections in a month of interval, a reminder in six months, then every five years if need (rate of insufficient antibody). Other inoculations are practised only in particular situation: - Stays in rural zone of more than a month: Japanese encephalitis and fury; - For the not yet inoculated children: B.C.G. (Vaccine antituberculeux) to make one Only
time and without later control (between month and six years), ROR
(measles, mumps,
German measles).
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