Travel Medicine of Long Island

A clear guide to travel vaccines: which ones you actually need, how early to book, and how to time doses so you’re protected before you fly.

Learn how to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on long flights: real risk factors, who needs compression stockings, and simple in-seat prevention steps.

Practical steps to travel abroad with diabetes, heart disease, or asthma: managing medications, time zones, and emergencies so a chronic condition stays stable.

The single most useful thing you can do before an international trip is to sit down with a clinician who understands travel medicine, ideally six to eight weeks before departure. Many travellers leave this to the last minute, then discover that the vaccines they need require a course spread over several weeks, or that the … Read more

For many travelers, vaccinations are the part of trip planning that gets left until the last frantic week, squeezed in somewhere between booking airport parking and buying travel adapters. Yet immunizations are one of the few genuinely proactive things you can do to prevent illness abroad, and unlike packing, they cannot be sorted out overnight. … Read more

Some of the world’s most rewarding destinations sit at altitudes where the air itself becomes a challenge. Trekking to Machu Picchu through Cusco, standing on the rim of a Himalayan valley, watching the sun rise from Kilimanjaro, or simply flying into cities like La Paz, Lhasa, or Leh all place travelers thousands of meters above … Read more

The journey itself, long before you reach your destination, can be one of the more physically demanding parts of international travel. A modern long-haul flight might keep you seated in a pressurized cabin for twelve hours or more, crossing many time zones, breathing dry recirculated air, and moving very little. None of this is dangerous … Read more

When travelers think about insect-borne disease, malaria understandably dominates the conversation. Yet in much of the tropical and subtropical world, the mosquitoes and other biting insects around you can transmit a whole range of other infections for which no protective tablet exists and, in most cases, no vaccine either. Dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and several less … Read more

Malaria remains one of the most serious health threats facing travellers to tropical regions, and it is also one of the most preventable. Each year, people return from holidays and business trips with malaria they could have avoided, sometimes with fatal consequences, because they underestimated the risk or stopped their tablets too early. Understanding how … Read more

Of all the ailments that interrupt a trip abroad, travellers’ diarrhoea is by far the most common. Depending on the destination, between twenty and sixty percent of travellers to lower-income regions experience it, usually within the first week. While rarely dangerous for otherwise healthy adults, it can ruin days of a carefully planned journey, and … Read more