Holiday away from home - to the body is always stressful. The nervous and immune systems challenge of climate change, jet lag, unfamiliar new infections and viruses. Acclimatization is fraught with complex, as a rule, SARS, but there are more serious cases. Sometimes, tourists are returning to the very dangerous infections.
Our body is not immune to the disease, typical for other regions. Therefore, before a trip to some distant country or countries, doctors are advised to make appropriate vaccinations. So in the South East Asia and South America, unusually widespread dengue fever, malaria is rampant in Africa, as well as Ebola. Even the Russian regions is not always friendly to visitors. And before the visit, such as the Crimean peninsula is best grafted in case of tick-borne encephalitis.
If the tourist is still disregarded the warnings and advice about immunization, and returned from vacation with symptoms of malaise, correct to immediately contact a doctor. While this may the most common cold.
It should also pay attention to the signs of serious disease, which can be expressed by the following symptoms:
1. Breast pain and heavy breathing. This may well prove to be pneumonia.
2. Temperature fluctuations accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, pain in the muscles and general weakness indicate malaria.
3. Severe diarrhea with blood in the stools - a sign, or salmonellosis, or dysentery.
4. Muscle weakness, numbness of the face, as well as redness of the skin indicate tick-borne encephalitis. Especially if you notice a recent tick bite. By the way, maybe it's Lyme disease, so a doctor should be treated, even if no symptoms, but there is a trace of the bite.
5. Severe aching pain in the head and neck, plus dizziness and a rash all over the body. This can be meningitis.
6. Skin rash with bleeding from capillaries show hemorrhagic fever.
Especially seriously all the above expressions should be taken to people with weakened immune systems: with cancer after chemotherapy, and patients with HIV. It is better to see a doctor, even with a small increase in temperature.
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