Symptoms
- Prevention focus — malaria causes fever, chills, flu-like illness
- Motion sickness: nausea and vomiting
- Travellers diarrhoea common in some regions
Travel health & malaria: symptoms, causes & treatment
Travel medicines prevent malaria, motion sickness and common travel-related illness — planned weeks before departure for best protection.
Editorial information by Kaiser Khan. Not clinically reviewed.
Why it happens
Malaria from mosquito bites in endemic regions; motion sickness from inner ear conflict; infection risks vary by destination.
Treatment
Destination-matched anti-malaria tablets started before travel, during stay and after return. Travel sickness tablets taken before journeys.
Self-care that helps
Check NHS Fit for Travel guidance; insect repellent and bed nets in malaria zones; hand hygiene for food and water safety.
When to get help
Fever within 3 months of returning from a malaria area — urgent same-day medical assessment.
Go deeper
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