laos and thailand

[torqueofthedevil]

anyone get any vaccinations for there?

i didnt for thailand last time i went but met some people who had.

maliaria isnt really a problem is thailand but is in laos, not going to take the malaria tablets though - even the not so bad ones sound horrendous...and have you read about that meflequinine or whatever? well bad!

ive just read a really good article looking at it rationally and have decided that not getting the tablets is the right decision - only going for a few days, will wear repellant and use net....its very uncommon.

just wondering what other people thought.

[loltolhurst]

i took the antibiotic ones and they were fine - laos has 0 health care so do u really wanna risk it? when u going to laos? its fab

[v15ben]

I'd personally recommend taking the tablets. The side effects are not bad if you go for something like doxycyclin and take them with plenty of water after your evening meal.
A mate of mine went for the same idea as yours in Tanzania and got malaria so take from that what you will

[Ynox]

Thought Malarone was pretty side effect free? That said, it's bloody expensive (£2ish a tablet) compared to doxy (15p a tablet).

I'm not bothering with any vaccines for my trip to Thailand in sept, spoke to a relative of mine who's a doctor and he told me the combined hep a/typhoid vaccine has a load of crap in it which isn't great for you.

[torqueofthedevil]

loltolhurst said:

i took the antibiotic ones and they were fine - laos has 0 health care so do u really wanna risk it? when u going to laos? its fab

going in december - just gonna get to vieng viang, do a bit of tubing then get back down to thailand.

[VxDuncan]

torqueofthedevil said:

loltolhurst said:

i took the antibiotic ones and they were fine - laos has 0 health care so do u really wanna risk it? when u going to laos? its fab

going in december - just gonna get to vieng viang, do a bit of tubing then get back down to thailand.

So let me see, you going to a malarial zone, in a country with little medical care, not taking anything and spending a lot of time on the water...

Good luck with that!

(seriously though, malarone is very good and worth the money. Having seen a guy taken down with Malaria in Papua New Guinea there's NO WAY I'd risk it. Also met a rafting instructor in Uganda who'd had it 17 times...)