I love travelling! It’s always great to see new and beautiful places. Well, I travel frequently within the Philippines only. I was able to go abroad twice only, first in 2007 when I went to Singapore and Malaysia and the second one this year when I went to Indonesia.  It’s great that I haven’t experience any sickness during those times.

I have a friend who is a frequent traveller, he travels from Europe to Asia more than 10 times a year. He told me quite not a good experience when he went in Pakistan few years back, he told me that he almost died due to food poison, after he ate seafood in a hotel. He had experienced stomach cramp, vomitting, dizziness and muscle weakness. He had this for about 3 days and he thought he would die, but thanks God he got well.

This experience gave him a lesson to be very careful in choosing food when he is travelling.  However, being careful in choosing food is not the only way to be safe when you are travelling, there are many factors that can make you sick like weather, pollution and so much more.

To make sure that you will be taken care of when something happens to you when you are away from home is to get a travel health insurance. It’s always wise to be ready and proactive in anything that we do.