{"id":3333,"date":"2010-01-15T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T06:39:53","slug":"i-have-typhoid-hep-a-tetanus-and-whooping-cough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/i-have-typhoid-hep-a-tetanus-and-whooping-cough\/","title":{"rendered":"I have Typhoid, Hep A, Tetanus and Whooping Cough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;immunizations.<\/p>\n<p>In preparing to go to India to show off SWARM, I had to get stuck with a bunch of needles. Joy.<\/p>\n<p>I got my immunizations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcdcp.org\/aitc.html\">San Francisco Department of Public Health Adult Immunization &amp; Travel Clinic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They knew which vaccines I needed but I checked up myself with the CDC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/recs\/schedules\/default.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/destinations\/india.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I made an appointment a few days in advance. It took about 1.5 hours with the interview, shots and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>I received<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Typhoid<\/strong> &#8211; 4 pills taken every other day for 8 days. Take at least 1 week before travel. Don&#8217;t take with antibiotics (my antimalarial is an antibiotic!). Effective for 5 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doxycycline<\/strong> &#8211; Antimalarial. \u00a01 pill a day starting 2 days before travel, ending 28 days after. Most other antimalarials have a very high incidence of side effects like hallucinations and psychosis! <strong>Everyone<\/strong> (5 out of 5) (<strong>update 12-5-11<\/strong>: 6 out of 6, Michael Sturtz too) I&#8217;ve ever spoken to about antimalarials has said their mental state was strongly negatively influenced by other antimalarials like mefloquine!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Polio<\/strong> &#8211; injection. You should get 1 booster in a lifetime. This was it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TDAP<\/strong> &#8211; Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis. injection. Effective for 10 years<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hepatitis A<\/strong> &#8211; injection. Effective for 10 years. I need to go back in 6 months for a booster<\/li>\n<li><strong>Azithromycin<\/strong> 500 mg &#8211; 3 oral antibacterial goofballs to take with me in case of illness while travelling (update: I needed it after a meal, good thing I had it!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hep B<\/strong> immunization (Lee already got in 2005. Effective for 10 years.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MMR<\/strong> \u00a0&#8211; Measles Mumps Rubella &#8211; 2 shots needed in a lifetime. By 1990 almost all colleges required boosters. Effective for life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ultrathon<\/strong> 34% DEET insect repellent (Followup: I&#8217;m VERY glad I got and used this!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Total bill from San Francisco Department of Health: $307<br \/>\nI have to pick up the Azithromycin \u00a0and Doxycycline prescriptions from Costco. (you don&#8217;t need a membership to buy from their pharmacy. It was crazy cheap, like $7 for each.)<\/p>\n<p>A day later, both my arms hurt and are stiff from the injections. A few days after that, I felt &#8220;under the weather&#8221; as if a cold was coming on. Then all was well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to pick up some <strong>permethrin<\/strong> for my clothes from REI and I&#8217;m ready to go. (Followup: I&#8217;m glad I did!)<\/p>\n<p>Whoever said international travel was fun was in the middle of a psychotic episode from the mefloquine.<\/p>\n<p>And it sucks but this post belongs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/category\/art\/\">&#8220;Art&#8221; category<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;immunizations. In preparing to go to India to show off SWARM, I had to get stuck with a bunch of needles. Joy. I got my immunizations at the San Francisco Department of Public Health Adult Immunization &amp; Travel Clinic They knew which vaccines I needed but I checked up myself with the CDC here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}