Fact sheet travel health kits

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Travel Health Kits Travel Health medical kits are designed to help you manage uncomplicated illness whilst travelling overseas. The benefits include faster recovery for simple ailments, avoiding expensive medical costs or inferior service and avoiding the risks of counterfeit medications.

Types of kits available at Travel Health Fremantle

Travel Health Gastro Kits

Rehydration salts in sachet form Diarrhoea stopper

To alleviete and treat the sypmtons of

Prescription medication to prevent nausea and vomiting

travellers diarrhoea

An antibiotics for severe diarrhoea A health guide authorising prescription medications and providing information to assist you to treat the illnes

Travel Health Comprehensive Kits

Contains all of the gastro kit contents (above) An antibiotic to treat Giardia and Dysentry

To treat a wider range of common travel ailments Designed for prolonged or remote trips

An antibiotic to treat eye and ear infections An antibiotic to treat chest and skin infections Cold and flu medication Panadol for pain relief Medication to treat constipation Antihistamine to treat travel sickness and allergies.

Travel Health Global Dressing Kits

These first aid kits contain an assortment of dressings to treat a variety of wounds

Travel Health Needle and Syringe Kit

Sterile needles and syringes for emergency medical use

Travel Health Emergency Suture Kits

Suturing material and instruments

Designed for remote travel where suturing may be a risk factor

Information handout


Important Information 

Travel Health ‘Gastro and Comprehensive’ kits contain prescription medications, so it is necessary that you consult with the Doctor

All items can be individually prescribed or other medications can be added to your kit to suit your specific travel requirements

Kits cannot be claimed on the PBS with a script

When travelling in developing countries for one month 1 in 2 people will have a health problem 1 in 10 will see a doctor 1 in 20 will be confined to bed Pre travel advice and the use of a prescribed medical kit can positively affect this outcome


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