The Healthy Traveler: A Handbook of Easy Solutions for Common Travel Ailments

The Healthy Traveler helps readers locate and use remedies from pharmacies, health food stores, kitchens--even the backyard--to relieve the common ailments and stresses so often experienced when traveling. It's packed with information that readers will use again and again and is the perfect companion for business, leisure and armchair traveling. This handy traveler's guide is packed with helpful information on what to do when emergencies arise. The subjects covered range from the ordinary afflictions that travelers can experience: difficulty falling asleep, constipation, dealing with food poisoning, traveling on winding roads with a car sick companion, to the more unusual: hiking in the Rockies and experiencing altitude sickness, and preparing to dive the Great Barrier Reef while coughing up blood. Written in layperson's language with a minimum of medical jargon, The Healthy Traveler uses an easy-to-read format that allows readers to look up the information they need quickly and simply, without stress. With a step-by-step explanation of how to deal with different health issues, this handbook has the answers travelers need, emphasizing inexpensive, natural solutions and where to find them. The information provided includes tips on the common ailments that can ruin a trip, such as jet lag, stiffness and blisters. Most people have health problems when they travel that they rarely, or never, encounter when they are at home. Because they don't have these problems at home, they don't think to prepare for them when they are on the road. This guide reminds readers of common travel ailments so that they can plan ahead, and provides assistance when dealing with problems that may not have beenanticipated. Because diet, clothing, schedules, and environment can change, sometimes radically, when on the road, travel ailments frequently differ from those experienced at home. Travelers lose many of their anchors, the constants in their lives. Air travel exposes travelSusan W. Kramer is the author of 'The Healthy Traveler: A Handbook of Easy Solutions for Common Travel Ailments' with ISBN 9780971343153 and ISBN 0971343152.