Evaluation of Sick Returning Travelers:

The idea behind obtaining pre-travel advice is to prevent illness and injury abroad. While most people worry about exotic diseases, the truth is that the greatest risks to your health while traveling are the same as they would be here at home: in older individuals, it’s cardiovascular disease and in younger people it’s accidents. Nevertheless travelers do become ill during and after trips and travel medicine specialists are the most appropriate professionals to evaluate complaints in returning travelers. Whether or not you sought pre-travel advice, we are available to you and your physician to help evaluate the most likely diseases based on your destination, activities, and length of stay. Exotic and tropical diseases are actually rare in travelers and although people might like to get ‘checked out’ upon their return, we do not recommend evaluating returning travelers unless they become sick.

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