I hadn’t given a lot of thought before about medical conditions and international travel other than buying a couple of Z-Packs in Mexico or trying to find an over the counter medication in a non-English pharmacy and being sure that I have my prescriptions with me. But recently while traveling in Ecuador I ended upContinue reading “Medical Tourism?”
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A Traveler’s Medicine Chest
Travel Medications and Being Prepared Our first line of defense is improving our immune system before we get sick and that starts with vitamin C. Several weeks before a trip we start taking it. Around 1970, Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling (chemistry and the Peace Prize) popularized the theory that vitamin C helps treat colds.Continue reading “A Traveler’s Medicine Chest”
