Getting the shots

I’ve never been to India or Nepal before, so as part of my preparation for the trip, I booked myself in to see the nurse at my local doctor’s surgery and find out what sort of medication I might need for the trip. I imagined that I would need things like Maleria tablets and possibly a top up injection or to having recently been to Argentina.

I ended up having to get 7 injections, a booster for one of the shots i had for Argentina , a set of 3 rabies shots and a set of 3 hepatitis shots, apparently the part of India i’m going to has a problem with rabies in bats and its common for of blood transfusions not to be screened, so if i have an accident running and need any sort of blood transfusion or injections there are hepatitis risks.

I was also surprised to heard that i infact don’t need Malaria tablets, as in the nurses words, ‘ the mosquitos that spread Malaria can’t survive at those sort of altitudes – there simply isn’t enough oxygen’ .