If you’ve traveled to exotic places before, then you know how important it is to go abroad fully equipped with your own private medicine chest. Who knows where you’ll be when a bout of diarrhea strikes? Or if your twice yearly migraine decides to make an appearance? Or if your skin breaks out with an Amazonian case of acne? A first aid kit topped off with extra medications and creams is a good idea if you want to play it safe during your adventure.
Because you generally need a prescription for antibiotics, and because doctors generally won’t write you one unless you’ve got specific reason, people often overlook antibiotics on their “to bring” medications list. But packing along some antibiotics is probably one of the smartest things you can bring along with you.
For example, diarrhea is generally due to a bad reaction to food, dehydration, or some minor infection that will go away on its own. Usually one or two doses of Imodium is enough to get your digestive system back to regular. But sometimes it’s not enough and you’ll want to take something like Cipro (a good general antibiotic) to cover your bases to eliminate any other bacterial infection. The last thing you want on your vacation is to be running back and forth to the bathroom (or the hole in the ground at the end of camp) all through the night. And a dose of Cipro will usually do the trick.
You can buy Cipro online without a prescription just to hold on to as backup. If your regular medications don’t work for aches and pains, stomach ache, food poisoning, or a bad cut or scrape, then you’ll know that you’ve got your emergency Cipro on hand for safe and effective bacterial treatment.
The best thing about antibiotics like Cipro is that if you take it in error, or just take it to be on the safe side but aren’t 100% sure that you need it, you’re highly unlikely to experience any negative side effects.
So before your next journey to Southeast Asia or African safari trip, stock up on a safe antibiotic that you’ll be able to turn to when there are no doctors around for miles.