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Knowing how to prevent and treat travellers’ diarrhoea essential
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Knowing how to prevent and treat travellers’ diarrhoea essential
Wednesday 1 March 2023, 12:25 AM

Your patient is nervous about getting diarrhoea during her one-month trip to India [Sylwia Bartyzel on Unsplash]
With our COVID-19 restrictions lifted, travel has certainly restarted, so it’s time to brush up on travellers’ diarrhoea
Key points, Prevention of travellers’ diarrhoea is centred around careful food and beverage selection, and good hand hygiene.
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References
Riddle MS, Connor BA, Beeching NJ, et al. Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of travelers’ diarrhea: a graded expert panel report. J Travel Med 2017;24, Supp.1:S63–80.
Lόpez-Vélez R, Lebens M, Bundy L, et al. Bacterial travellers’ diarrhoea: A narrative review of literature published over the past 10 years. Travel Med Infect Dis 2022;47:102293.