Travel medication checklist

When travelling, I like to bring along medication to relieve symptoms of common illnesses. This is useful for the following reasons:

1)       Medical help may not be available especially when travelling on a long flight or by sea, including geographically remote areas

2)       Medicines may be classified differently in foreign countries such that our usual over-the-counter medicine may require a prescription (a visit to the local doctor) to purchase.

3)       The usual combination drugs or brand names that we are used to may not be always available; and of course lastly

4)       If limited English is used in the foreign country, it would be very hard to get the right medication.

Below is my travel medication checklist:

Adult
Symptom	Medicine
Diarrhea	Charcoal tab
Gastric pain	Antacid
Headache/fever	Paracetamol
Runny nose	Cetirizine
Children
Symptom	Medicine
Diarrhea/loose stool	Lacteofort
Fever	Paracetamol / Ibuprofen
Runny nose	Fedac / Actifed

I would bring along only medicines that I have used before to prevent any ‘surprise’ reactions that may accompany unfamiliar medicines.