Injections???

machadinha

I can only comment on Hep B which I finished in Delhi no problem, professional and relatively cheap, I think I went to the East West Medical Center. You'd think the others can be had too; how it is with completing your rabies vaccine with a different one I don't know. You could look them up on the web and call ahead.

Whoops there goes my 500th post

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loon

Thanks--I'm so glad to know that about the Hep B!!!
Any one know whether you can get immunizations for Japanese B encephalitis or the rabies vaccine in Delhi (the same rabies vaccine you get in the U.S.?
Thank you again!

Nick-H

Another one for Auntiji and me

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machadinha

Loon, why don't you do a Google search on "east west medical center" +delhi and try to call them, a search will give you various numbers but you should be able to get through with a little patience I guess. You might find http://www.travmed.com/maps/country.epl?c=India instructive for general purposes.

sticky

Wow, to weird. I was coming here this morning to post nearly the same question.

I got a quote for vaccinations yesterday from "travel doctor" here in australia.
AU$766..... aaaaarrrggggghhhhh

and they did, again, recomend rabies shots!

anyway, i wanted to find places in india to get them instead, $766 is a lot of cash!

i found this list, may be of use to some people. some of the links are wrong (and some have "," instead of ".")

http://bupa.wordtravels.com/Travelgu...ndia/Hospitals

If any one from delhi has any recomendations please let us know

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Merchant

This is getting out of hand. First, ignore all medical advice from the internet. Next, talk to your doctor. If he recommends a jab or two as a prudent measure, go for it. If he recommends several hundred dollars worth of needles and pills, find a doctor who specializes in tropical diseases. Tell him or her where you are going in India (north or south, desert or backwater), what time of year you will be there (winter or summer, monsoon or no), how long you will stay, and what activities you'll be engaged in (temple hopping or trekking). Do whatever this person recommends.

It won't do you any good to get most of your shots in India because it often takes a few weeks for them to start working. Your body has to develop the resistence to the disease with which you have just been injected.

sticky

Yeah, youre right, this is getting out of hand, but i dont see why it should. Everyone seems to get so agro about this topic, but $766 is a lot of money, and i want to find a better way, and obviously alot of other people do too.

"The travel doctor" is one of the premier travel medicine clinics in australia, and they are experts in that field. but they are expensive, and i have been given unneccessary things from them before.

Not all vaccines are the same, some offer resistance after a couple of days, the follow ups are to give you long term immunity (at least with some injections, anyway), so why cant people get the follow ups in india?

This is what my girlfriend and i were reccomended to get, although not all of them are for me:
Typhoid: $49 (once off)

Meningicocal: $62 (once off)

Cholera: $50 x 2 = $100 - oral tablets

Hepatitus A & B: $60 x 2 = $120 will cover for one year, a third booster at one year will cover for 25 years.

Rabies: $40 x 3 = $120

Japanese B: $105 x 3 = $315

Total recommended: $766!!!!!!!

So im thinking that i (or anyone else) can at least get the follow ups in india, the cholera tabs are oral - so i dont see why that even needs a doctor, im sure they are available in india. Japaneese B apparently is only reccomended for travel to rural areas, or travel for extended periods (at least thats what they said) so i dont see why that cant be got in delhi either.

so anyway, i dont want to turn this into a big arguement. anyway. just wanted to know a doctor in india who can give advice.

Merchant

Cholera? Even at the height of the tsunami disaster there was no cholera outbreak. Typhoid? I'd find another doctor if I were you. Not a travel doctor who wants to stick you, but a specialist in diseases of the tropics. Or even a physician from India--there are lots of them, you know. What is a travel doctor anyway? We don't have them in the US. Beyond charging you for jabs, what do they do?

India is just not that dangerous a place. If you actually needed all those shots to ensure your well being, do you think anyone would ever go to India?

sticky

That’s what I’m trying to do, find a doctor or clinic in India that I can contact, preferably one which is recommended - or a specialist or something.



"The travel doctor" is a chain of medical clinics in Australia who specialise in travel medicine – eg what shots to take, what drugs for which regions etc etc. Many G.P’s refer patients there.



As far as Typhoid and Cholera go, that’s what they recommended as we are going to be there 6+ months, and will visit many rural areas. But I don't know, I'm not a doctor.



Think I’ll just ring one of those hospitals in Delhi and see what they have to say about it.

Nick-H

I guess that one problem with doctor's advise is that they probably err on the safe side not necessarily to maximise income, but to minimise legal risk.

sticky

Think you hit the nail on the head

kiwi_razz

Where are all the paranoid threads about "people in white coats making money off you"? And "my friend went to India without any shots and nothing happened"? Or "Don't take rabies shots, if you get bitten by a dog, then have an ayervedic massage"?

Why is it only malaria prevention that gets such responses?



(anyway this post is rhetorical)

loon

Here it is, kiwi-razz . This subject is so interesting to me--unexpectedly paying so much money to suspect pharmaceutical companies to protect against slim possibilities--but Machadinha and Sticky gave me all the info I needed so I will shut up after saying: Sticky, I was recommended everything you were--doctors here are all working off of www.travax.com, which my doctor told me is updated daily(!?), or the U.S. Center for Disease Control's recommendations, which may not be updated as frequently.

One of the most interesting things about this to me is how, despite how many travellers I spoke with while prepping for this (my first) trip, I was completely surprised by the prices of the vaccines and how many there were. It seems that once people actually get to India and return, the issue of cost and which to take slips into a happy distance. Something we can all look forward to!

sticky

Your right loon, I probably will forget about the price.......
eventually......
I got burnt once by "The travel doctor" they sold me alot of very expensive anti malarials on the grounds that i would not be able to get them in Thailand. which was absolute crap. they were everywhere, and about 1/10th the price!

I will be taking all the recommended stuff, but after the last experience I had, I'd rather go the cheaper option if its going to give the same results anyway.

$766 aussie is a good month or more worth of travel in india.....

Maybe I have some scottish blood of something....

kiwi_razz

In my experience the "travel doctors" are more expensive than your ordinary GP.

I guess that is because you expect them to have more current knowledge. When I got some boosters my GP consulted some chart on her wall so I don't know how current that would have been.

As with everything, the trick is to do your own research beforehand (and that doesn't mean just asking other peoples opinions on a message board) and find out how much what will cost where.