Reviews On Traveling In Turkey While Pregnant
Travelling by air when you are pregnant requires a little more planning than others. The first thing that needs doing is a consultation with the doctor as there are certain times when it is safer to fly than others apart from any current medical problems. Medical reasons which would prevent a pregnant woman from flying can include, blood loss, raised blood pressure or swelling.
e. twins or triplets. Carrying a medical certificate if the pregnancy is more than 24 weeks pregnant is recommended. To make the flight more comfortable it is worth trying to check in early so there may be an opportunity to have an aisle seat for easy access or a bulkhead seat as there is more legroom.
If an expectant mother is flying to the continents of Asia or Africa she should seek advice on vaccinations for hepatitis A, B and typhoid before traveling. Malaria is another problem and expectant mothers are advised not to travel to countries where contracting it is a possibility.
In Australia, typhoid and hepatitis A vaccinations aren’t advised for children under six but it is recommended that children are up-to-date with their other immunizations. The best advice in these circumstances is for any expectant mother to check with her doctor before she makes plans to travel or fly anywhere.
A simple way to avoid getting hepatitis A and typhoid is to avoid drinking water that has not come from a sealed bottle and ice where tap water has been used. It is also inadvisable to eat fruit and raw vegetables and before eating wash your hands with an antibacterial hand wash. Nowadays it is easy to carry travel size bottles of gel hand wash that can sterilize without the need for special facilities as it dries in the air almost immediately.
Unfortunately, there is an additional risk of blood clots when you are present, one that increases with airline travel so to avoid deep vein thrombosis it is advisable to wear the special socks or stockings you can purchase from drugstores. To keep maintain a good circulation, it is advisable that walking about or other exercises be carried out while in flight whenever possible.
Most travel insurance covers women up until 26 weeks of pregnancy, though this excludes childbirth or the health of a newborn child and although you can still buy standard travel insurance after this point but it doesn’t cover anything related to the pregnancy. Some insurance companies will include travel insurance after the twenty six weeks for pregnant mothers but won’t cover the costs of the birth itself.
