Valuable health tips for travelers to San Salvador

Is San Salvador on your travel itinerary this year? If you have already made your plans or on the verge of booking flights to San Salvador, here is some valuable health information that will be of help to every traveler visiting El Salvador and its capital city San Salvador.

Prior to your San Salvador visit, it is important that you should pay a visit to your doctor at least 4 to 6 weeks ahead of your scheduled journey. It is important for you to get vaccines or take the required medicines needed during your stay in the city.

Before embarking on your trip, make sure that routine vaccines are compulsorily taken. Some of these important vaccines include flu shot, polio vaccine, chickenpox (varicella) vaccine, pertussis-tetanus-diphtheria vaccine, and measles-mumps vaccines.

There are many travelers who are already cautious and take medicines and vaccines prior to their travel fearing the risk of diseases in the host country. However, the health authorities in the country recommend that Hepatitis A vaccine should be taken because the traveler might be affected by this disease emanating through food contamination or water irrespective of the place of stay or whatever you are eating. The travelers are also recommended to take typhoid vaccine before visiting the city as the disease might be contacted due to contaminated water or food. This is important when particularly visiting rural areas or smaller cities or staying with relatives and friends. Travelers are also advised to take Hepatitis B vaccine prior to their visit because the  chances of contracting this disease is also very high in San Salvador.