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Homeopathy’s Top 10 for Travellers
Checking in at the airport seems to take forever. Taking a train or bus might take even longer. You’re irritated, frustrated and already tired. Homeopathic remedies offer an excellent way to help your travel blue.
Travel Tips
Most of us suffer jet lag on long-haul flights, even experienced flight professional.
Dysentery
Dysentery is a more serious form of *diarrhea, where the stools are tinged with blood and *mucus. The diarrhea can be quite severe, characterized by colicky *pains and frequent urging. Stools can be passed as often as fifteen to thirty times per day.
Jet Lag
It is quite normal to experience jet lag when traveling through multiple time zones. Lethargy, irritability and dullness with slowed reaction times are typica.
Motion Sickness
While *jet lag begins later or at the end of travel, motion sickness can bring misery early on in the trip. It starts with a queasy feeling. As the *nausea worsens, the person loses his or her facial color and begins to look quite ill.
Nausea
Nausea is a symptom of another problem in the body. Depending on its severity, it is often associated with loss of *appetite, increased salivation and *vomitin.
Parasites
Signs of parasitic infection can easily be confused with a wide variety of other abdominal and intestinal diseases. There is a parasite connection to many common health problems experienced by children and adults in North America.
Snake Bite
Many people who live in cities in Canada and the United States are never confronted with the potential danger of bites from venomous snakes. Not all snakes are poisonous and, of those that are, not all cause severe sickness.
Travel Diseases, Tropical (see also Parasites)
Malaria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, cholera, *dysentery and *hepatitis are among the most common and serious tropical diseases. A tropical illness does not have to begin during the trip, but can produce symptoms days, weeks and even many months after the return home.
Worms (see also Parasites)
Parasitic worms require hosts in order to live and multiply. They range in size from the quarter-inch pinworm to the ten-yard long fully grown tapeworm. Children are most commonly infected with worms because they tend to touch everything and put their fingers in their mouths.
Essential Oils for Travel
I can’t go anywhere without essential oils! Even driving to work, 40 km down the South Klondike and Alaska Highway to Whitehorse, I have essential oils going in my handy plug-in car diffuser.
Take to the Air
Do you remember when travelling by air was glamorous and sophisticated? The increase in availability of low-cost flights has made flying accessible to many, but the glamour is a faded memory for all but the elite who can afford to travel first class.
Summertime Travel Kits
Summer holidays are finally here again! Whether you’re planning to lounge on the decks of an Alaskan cruise ship or hike the West Coast trail, you’re going to need a basic travel kit.

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