 Travelling with a pregnant woman
Alfred,
2nd trimester is the best time to travel. We travelled to Italy when my
wife was about 5 months
pregnant. The only thing I would advise is to *slow* down a bit and
drink lots of water.
We travelled without taking my wife's condition into account and she got
dehydrated (Aug in Italy)
and started having contractions. We had to go to the local Italian
hospital. Anyway after that we took it
easy and I made sure my wife had lots of water. We travelled by bus and
train as well as walked around
like normal tourists without any problem after that.
good luck
waseem
Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen wrote:
>Dear Alfred,
>Egypt is a very nice country *imo* - plenty to see, generally nice and funny
>people apart from the occasional extremist who try to destabilise the
>country ;-)
>
>I and plenty of others actually got varying degrees of touristic stomach by
>eating at Sheraton in Alexandria several years ago, so don't feel completely
>safe by choosing expensive dining.
>Granted it was a warm buffet which is always tricky, but tourist stomach is
>often caused by the difference in the intestinal flora of your home and
>destination country and not necessarily pathogenic bacteria.
>That means that being raised in Malaysia unfortunately isn't a guarantee -
>Middleeastern immigrants living in Denmark also get diarrea when they go on
>holiday "back home".
>
>No matter where you go - do *not* accept the medicine most guides/hotels
>have available if your wife gets a diarrea that you feel needs treatment.
>It is efficient but might contain herbs or broadspectered antibiotics that
>might be teratogenic.
>However impractical consult a qualified physician who can tell you excactly
>what the medication contains and whether it could damage the baby.
>
>Besides from an unpleasant but usually reasonably harmless tourist stomach
>you should also consider the risk of Hepatitis A (food transmissible) - if
>your wife hasn't already been vaccinated this is usually something you wait
>with until after the birth.
>Maybe the Hepatitis prevalence in Egypt isn't higher than where you live
>now?
>
>In any case your wife needs to consult her physician and possibly her
>obstetrician about the need for vaccinations or any other preventive
>medication (ie. antimalarial drugs) no matter where you choose to go.
>
>In principle Egyptian physicians should speak or at least read some English
>since they use English textbooks to a fairly large degree as far as I know.
>
>Best regards
>Cecilie Th. Jacobsen
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