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7 tips to stay healthy when travelling

Travelling is like a magic wand for all the travel wizards. The globetrotters have got the key to doing miracles in their lives. Often, travel ends with a lot of memories. Yet, the same trip starts with a lot of preparation. You can sleep more to overcome the jet lag caused by a delayed flight. You can eat tonnes of food once you are in the hotel after an interminable journey. However, there is something you should do extra for your safety. Whether you are planning a trip or you are on a trip, you must take care of your safety first.

While you are travelling, you might face something wrong. I know nothing is as incredible as travel, but failing in remaining healthy could prove disastrous. You can take a few measures to prevent anything going wrong and have medication if things get worse. In this article, we have made a list of the top seven tips to stay healthy while traveling. If you follow the travel plan, you never run short on cash. Similarly, if you follow these health tips, you never run out of energy. Know here how to remain healthy on the road before you go on!

  1. Never compromise on your sleep

The most significant factor that can let you remain healthy at all your trip is proper sleep. Travelling involves a plethora of physical strength and movement. You need plenty and plenty of hours of sleep on a trip. Every time you be from one place to another, stacking your luggage on the motorcycle luggage rack, walking the city streets, attending some events and shows, you give your body enough stretch. Once you explore the cityscapes for a day, get back to your hotel, take a complete eight hours of a nap, relax, and wake up fresh, energetic, the next morning!

  1. Always eat authentic food

Food is the source of energy for your body. Most of the travelers insist on skipping breakfast and directly eat lunch. Ethically, one should not do that. Repeatedly, a traveler needs to eat authentic food. Prefer making your meals on your own in the hotel room or public park. Eating outside always is unhealthy. Shopping from local groceries is a whole unfamiliar fun feeling, though! Also, when you go out for dining, prefer eating vegetarian food. The vegetables will well balance your meal rather than meat or fish. Also, you can buy a ready-packed salad and add it to the restaurant meal.

  1. Never reach to dehydration

What if you never want to dehydrate? The answer is hydrate, hydrate, and hydrate! Often, during the day when people are busy exploring the landmarks, cityscapes, and monuments, they forget what their body needs. We eat well still, drink less water on a trip. It is suggestible to carry a collapsible water bottle with you on a trip. Water will be handy whenever you are thirsty. Even you will not cut out drinking water because of the sluggish attitude to buying a mineral water bottle. The more water you drink and the less you eat is key to a successful trip.

  1. Avoid alcohol as much as you can

Most of the people are out on a break during the trip and want to booze up, completely forgetting the rest of the world. Alcohol drinks contain many calories. They can cause an imbalance in your daily calorie intake. All the other sugary drinks, too, create inequality in sugar levels of the body. It is better to drink water or fresh fruit juice instead of some alcohol or soft drinks. You are on a trip to enjoy it. So, it is okay if you grab one or two drinks with your friends on the weekend trip, but not limitless.

  1. Meet your doctor and then leave for travelling

What say, meeting your doctor before the trip or going to the doctor on some unknown address and anonymous location? What’s better? Of course, the former one! Travel experts recommend meeting your regular family doctor and take the common eye, dental, and physical tests before leaving for the trips. No one would have ever thought of describing his/her pain to a doctor who even does not speak the same language!? Therefore, meeting your local doctor and some clinical measures can save you from medication while you are on the road.

  1. Exercise even if you are travelling

It is excellent if you can have and manage an exercise schedule on a trip too. You can spare some time gymming at the city’s local gym buying a temporary membership or instead book a hotel which has fitness equipment. If you are unavailable with any of these two options, thanks, at least you have a room! Work-out in your hotel room doing pushups, lunges, jumping jacks, or striking yoga poses. Well, if you are too busy to exercise it out, simply stretch out. You must take out 10-15 minutes and stretch your legs, arms, neck, shoulders, and other joints.

  1. Use hand sanitizers and wet napkins

I’m sure you would not wish to eat with those dirty hands after contacting too many people for the complete day. Being on a trip outdoors can make you a home of bacteria and germs. Touching doors, windows, cabs, mall furnishings, restaurant plates, etc. make you filthy. Move a hand sanitizer everywhere with you. It is a savior at all times. Apply it on your hands before and after the dinners and lunches. Also, use wet napkins to clean your face with dirt and feel fresh and charming. In case you are away from the water outlet than your desired distance, any of the two can help you with cleansing.

Conclusion

Not these tips are universal, although they are undoubtedly beneficial. Follow them to ensure an exceptional escapade.  Take care of your skin, maintain sound health, and ultimately care for yourself. So are you set for a trip?

Author

  • Rachel (Scriven) Branson

    With a background in Publishing since 1996, rachel discovered a passion for health and nutrition whilst studying at the College of Naturopathic Medicine. In 2006, Rachel and her husband Richard launched ‘Wellbeing Magazine’ as a platform where everyone could access information about alternative health, complementary medicines and all the wonderful products and services to support people on their wellbeing journey.