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To Your Health . . .

© Diane Goldberg under the original topic name

Ms Budget Travel's favorite pain medication from Boots in the UK is somewhat illegal in the USA. In St. Petersburg, Russia, even lifelong residents boil tap water and some fools say boiled peanuts make them ill.

Health on the road is more complicated than you think

Unless you love chaos Ms Budget Travel insists that the very first things on your packing list need to be whatever medications you'll need for whatever things you normally do to harm yourself. Ms. Budget Travel is personally gifted at self-injurious behavior and after thumbing through phrase books trying to purchase a variety of things that weren't there in languages she did not speak she has learned that a bottle of Pepto-Bismol is a glorious thing.

Don't get all cozy comfy once you've packed your Aspirin or your Midol . . .

Traveling has other hazards than the ones you cleverly create at home. You can find the depressing data about back pain at http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/backchat/ --- if you are smarter than Ms Budget Travel, and she is certain you are you'll check the part on prevention and be careful how you lug your luggage.

Recently there's been a bit of furor about Deep Vein Thrombosis and air travel, this refreshingly non-hysterical little article --- http://www.iata.org/pr/pr01feba.htm ought to soothe your fears while giving a few techniques for avoiding the problem.

While Ms Budget Travel does not get motion sickness, she has been accused of causing it in others. This piece will explain motion sickness: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2000/au... As an added plus the article does not directly offer to sell you anything.

Ms Budget Travel has lots of poison ivy in her very own yard --- however, if you don't you might find this page useful: http://res2.agr.ca/ecorc/poisivy/title.h... before heading out on a summer journey. It also covers poison oak and other nasty green plants that are not our friends.

http://www.cdc.gov/safeusa/water/water.h... Water safety is particularly important to summer travelers.

Ms Budget Travel has a neurotic fear of amusement park rides, which this article seems to support --- http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/99091... This really frightening article http://www.myparentime.com/articles/arti... has a lot of good advice for child safety on rides as well as links to other pages that provide safety information parents need.

Camping safety tips are right here --- http://www.jps.net/roamer/cpsafety.html You can pick up advice on childproofing a hotel room --- http://www.jps.net/roamer/cpsafety.html Even folks without kids might like to have a look at this hotel safety check list --- http://www.corporatetravelsafety.com/hot...

All right, Ms Budget Travel hears the snickering of regular readers --- you are recalling some of her many misadventures and reminding her that she doesn't prepare adequately for emergencies, follows no safety advice, and in fact gets herself stranded, lost, abandoned and ill in a variety of locations. Well, Dear Reader, that's my job --- making mistakes so you don't have to . . .

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