Family travel tips for packing medications may seem unusual but few things are as frustrating as not having the appropriate medication or not being prepared for minor or major illnesses while traveling. These problems can be prevented with a little preparation.  With these great tips found on Asia One.com health you can come up with a plan for treating your all kinds of personal health conditions that you know your family is likely to get while traveling.

Keep all medications sealed and keep prescriptions in their original bottles. Do not put them in weekly pill minders because authorities need to be able to tell what kind of medication you have and whether it is legal. Tummy troubles, headaches, stiff muscles, trouble sleeping, allergies, are just a few of the most common travel related ailments you might want to pack medication for. if you are going to be traveling soon pay attention to these family travel tips for packing medications.

“Whether you are travelling for a short business trip or for an extended vacation with your family, it pays to take steps to protect your health. Here are a few pointers to take note of before and during your trip.”

Be Prepared

• “Always make sure that you obtain travel insurance prior to the trip. This is not only to ensure that your baggage is taken care of, but also to ensure that medical bills which might be incurred during your trip are covered. If you are traveling for work, check if your company is providing adequate insurance coverage for you.”
• “If you need to take prescription medicine regularly, pay a trip to your doctor at least a week before your trip so that you can stock up on medication if necessary.”
• “A checklist on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website recommends getting a prescription from your doctor specifying which medications you are taking. The last thing you want at the end of a long flight is to be questioned by Customs because your unlabelled pills look like illicit drugs.”
• “Last but not least, get the necessary vaccinations, be it for influenza, malaria, yellow fever or meningitis. Seek pre-travel health advice and vaccinations before their year-end holidays, if the countries they are visiting have a high incidence of contagious diseases like flu and hepatitis.”

On Board

“Singapore’s normal humidity is about 70 percent, while that within an airplane cabin is about 5 to 20 percent. This can cause problems for people with dry skin or eyes. To keep your eyes moist, instill lubricant eye drops regularly. This is particularly important for people who already suffer from dry eyes or other eye conditions.”

“Those with dry skin may benefit from applying a body lotion before the flight. On board, a sheet mask for the face can also help to restore moisture to the skin. Cindy Cheong, a beauty consultant trainer for SK-II, says that putting on a sheet mask for ten minutes towards the end of the flight can re-hydrate and refresh parched skin.”

While You’re There

“Depending on your destination and the activities you’ll be doing, it may be wise to bring along a good pair of wraparound sunglasses. UV light is reflected by the sea as well as by snow, and can actually cause sunburn on one’s eyes.”

“To protect your eyes, use sunglasses that provide 100 per cent UV protection, are polarised, and wrap around the face so that light striking the side of the face is filtered before reaching the eyes.”

“If you intend to take part in water sports such as diving or swimming, make sure that you do not wear contact lenses but use powered goggles instead, says Dr Lee. This will greatly reduce the risk of eye infections. Contact lens wearers should also follow the instructions of their contact lens practitioner and not wear their lenses beyond their recommended duration.”

Good advice if you ask me, no matter where you are off to, tips for healthy family travel are useful but be sure you check with the specific airline to see if there are any other restrictions or requirements for medications.

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Discover new destinations with this internet travel planning app

There is a new web app that makes travel planning easier for consumers. A couple of Ex-Google employees are organizing themselves to create one the most fulfilling mobile travel search applications in the web. TechCrunch explains how such application makes it exciting and easy again to find fantastic and interesting spots to travel too. It is always important to be prepared, and this new web app that makes travel planning easier and fun.

“In the days of yore, travel guides were written by intrepid travelers who spent months scribbling in diaries and field journals, or by teams of adventurous souls exhaustively scrap booking their travel experiences into the Lonely Planets of the world. Over the last decade, however, the Web has produced an untold number of personal travel blogs, digital photo albums, community-built travel guides like Tripadvisor and Wikitravel, and cool travel resources like Gogobot.”

“Today, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, two ex-Googlers, are officially unveiling their new mobile travel guide Triposo, which doesn’t want to just throw out the old model, it wants to do what Google did for the world’s information: Aggregate that sucka and make it easily searchable. Simply put, Triposo is based on the simple idea that travel guides can be designed in the same way that Google based its aggregation and search on some kick ass algorithms. And a little bit of indexing and semantic icing to boot.”

“To that end, travel guides like Triposo are possible today, because the content is there. Sites like Wikipedia, Wikitravel, and Openstreetmap have swaths of travel-related content, and Triposo wants to be the site that ranks that content so well you’ll never have to use another preachy, paper-based travel book. The environment will thank you.”

“Thus, the Triposo algorithm takes travel information from seven of the biggest open source aggregators (and sev explaineral closed resources as well) and serves its users with content that’s relevant for them. Without any human interference, Triposo COO Richard Osinga tells me, the startup produces travel guides, with information on sightseeing, nightlife and restaurants, all ordered by Triposo’s algorithm — and complete with an easy-to-use (and offline-enabled) map. That very offline functionality in and of itself makes Triposo’s free mobile apps worth downloading.”

“Along with its web app, Triposo also offers 30 free destination guides for iOS using the same approach. The startup plans to release an iOS world guide, in which users can download a complete travel guide for any destination in the world, next month. Android users, on the other hand, can already find a world travel guide and guides for select cities here.”

“Triposo has been polishing its travel content algorithms for over a year now, and launched a swath of city guides for iOS and Android to test the algorithmic waters and user response. So far, people are using the guides on average of 20 minutes per session — so far, so good. But the end goal for Triposo is really to hone its all-in-one world travel guides, so that users can pick a destination anywhere across the globe and easily find the best cities and destinations to visit.”

For many travelers this new web app will save them time and money because they should be able to find what they are looking for more easily and from the information found on the site they are less likely to end up going somewhere they aren’t really interested in, or sometimes visitors find destinations are closed or are under construction and don’t find out until they get there. The new web app that makes travel planning easier should be released in October.

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