i went to india about 4 years ago and i never got any sort of shots either - i never told anyone until i got back and people thought i was mad - i didn't do any homeopathy or anything else either - i don't think there was any risk for malaria there though - not exactly sure what there was risk for but government of cananda did have some recommendations of shots that a person should take when travelling there - but i went - drank the water - ate the food (i did get diarhea a few times), but other than that, never got serioiusly ill ... of course i was also born in that general area of the world so maybe that helped with the immune system ...

I returned from africa a couple weeks ago.  I had posted before i left asking about vaccine alternatives and got some lovely info about homeopathic remedies.

My family thought i was extremely foolish in not ponying up the 300$$ u s to get pumped up with viri but thanks to the net and this forum as well as guidance by the santa monica homeopathic pharmacy, I was directed to a pharmacy called Ainsworths Homeopathic Pharmacy.  They are located in London and instead of having to take a dash of this and that many many times a day they give you a pill to take 3 times a day, one day a week. 

I was in tanzania where you need to worry about hepatitus, tetanus, typhoid, and of course malaria.  i was a little worried about malaria so i ended up taking malarone and did not have ainsworths include that in my remedy.  Their remedy for malaria has some kind of agent in it that causes a person to perspire in such a way that must make the little buggers revile.  I guess I felt that malaria was the biggest threat and i was not totally convinced about homeopathics (but enough to forego the vaccines for the other stuff) so i went with the malarone. 

I did not get sick.  I got bit to hell by mosquitos at night which is when the malarial ones come out to play but i am fine.  I kind of wish i had tried the homeopathic remedy for malaria but oh well. 

So chalk up a tally for another healthy return for a person sent to africa without real "protection".  Minus 300$$ for the pharmaceutical companies!

I also was advised to take echinachea. wormwood complex and a probiotic pill.

so thanks to barefootdoc and belijar and all the rest!

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