Vaccines and travel to West africa

[bola]

Hello:

Has anyone out there travelled with unvaccinated children to West Africa? If so, what sort to natural ( if any) medicines or hygience precautions did you take. Thanks

[mamefati28]

bump!
Same situation with DS who will be 4 when we travel to west africa.

[babygirlie]

I traveled to SOUTH Africa at 18 and took a buttload of vaccines and my body crashed and now I have every autoimmune disease in the book. Besides that though I DID get to take the homeopathic form of the malaria vaccine. It was a tiny sugar pill. I don't know of it efficacy but I didn't get malaria

I was youngish so I just knew that school required the vaccine. I just remember there being a lot of shots

[SneakyPie]

Originally Posted by babygirlie

I traveled to SOUTH Africa at 18 and took a buttload of vaccines and my body crashed and now I have every autoimmune disease in the book.

What automimmune conditions do you have? There are about a hundred of them.

[moaningminny]

Oh dear babygirlie - I was misdiagnosed with lupus in 2000 and even that was hard enough. I can't imagine having to deal with dozens of autoimmune diseases! Hugs to you.

[nashvillemidwife]

Originally Posted by babygirlie

I traveled to SOUTH Africa at 18 and took a buttload of vaccines and my body crashed and now I have every autoimmune disease in the book. Besides that though I DID get to take the homeopathic form of the malaria vaccine. It was a tiny sugar pill. I don't know of it efficacy but I didn't get malaria

Are you sure you don't have malaria (or some other parasitic disease)? You have to ask specifically for a malaria smear to be diagnosed, in developed countries that it not a standard part of the CBC. Malaria is treatable, and more common than having 100+ autoimmune diseases (maybe you did not mean that literally?).