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 | |  5th January 2008, 13:34 | #1 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the worst place in britain (NOT) Gender:  Posts: 1,097 | It'll cost us £200 for our malaria tablets in the UK; should we buy them in Bangkok?
i went to the doctors last night and he told me thats it's gonna cost us £200 for our malaria tablets  , so i was thinking of buying them when i get to Bangkok, do you think this is a good idea or not? __________________
mollie |  |  | | 5th January 2008, 13:36 | #2 (permalink) | | Human Being Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Menores (near Adeje) Gender:  Posts: 1,638 | My other half has to take them regularly, and uses an english prescription from an english doctor here. About a quarter the cost (sent from the UK). __________________
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| | | | | 5th January 2008, 13:39 | #3 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the worst place in britain (NOT) Gender: Posts: 1,097 | i think the price is ridiculous and i'm not being stingy, afterall it's my health i'm talking about here and you can't put a price on that, but £200 to me is way overboard.... wonder how much of that is going to the goverment  __________________
mollie | | | | | 5th January 2008, 13:48 | #4 (permalink) | | Banned Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tenerife Gender: Posts: 9,580 | Quote: | Originally Posted by boro gal i was thinking of buying them when i get to Bangkok, do you think this is a good idea or not? | Chip will know.  | | | | | 5th January 2008, 13:52 | #5 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Huddersfield Gender: Posts: 1,184 | Where abouts are you travelling to? If its just Bangkok and the other well developed areas of Thailand we had normal malaria tablets from Boots, they cost around £20 if my memory serves me correctly. We took Larium and had to start taking a weekly tablet 2 weeks before travel, one a week during travel and one for 4 weeks after we travelled. Take a look at this site, it gives a malaria map of Thailand __________________ A gourmet who counts calories is like a tart who looks at her watch
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Last edited by hopper; 5th January 2008 at 13:59. Reason: map added | | | | | The Following User Says Thank You to hopper For This Useful Post: | | | 5th January 2008, 14:02 | #6 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the worst place in britain (NOT) Gender: Posts: 1,097 | we are in Bangkok for three days then we fly to Cambodia and then to Vietnam, so we definately need to take malria tablets.. __________________
mollie | | | | | 5th January 2008, 14:29 | #7 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Costa del Silencio/Portsmouth UK Gender: Posts: 826 My Mood:  | Malaria tablets
Firstly, as stated above you need to start the treatment a few weeks before you go.
Do you really need them? We took them when we went to Thailand & India & the friends we travelled with didn't & they were OK. Make sure they are a must before buying them as they can have very nasty side effects.
We paid £35 for us 3 years ago, so check the over the counter price as we didn't need a prescription for ours, unless the rules have changed. Also price them here too if you are in Tenerife, or get someone to do it for you & bring them over to the UK if they are going over if they are cheaper here.
As I said, do check if you really need them first.
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Jaype | | | | | The Following User Says Thank You to jaypeeps For This Useful Post: | | | 5th January 2008, 15:04 | #8 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Phuket, Thailand. Gender: Posts: 926 | Mandy, Forget Malaria tablets...why are you taking them?? You're not going trecking in Chang Mai?? A waste of money. You're more at danger from Dengie Fever.. My advise is invest in a good mosquito repellent. You can buy it in Bangkok when you get here. Its...and I really shouldn't say this but... its 50p from Watsons. Buy the Thai make that is 25% deet. Malaria tablets will make you ill and a huge waiste of money...don't get bit in the first place. You're going to 'tourist' places, not the jungle! You're not trecking through the jungle so why bother?? __________________
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| | | | | The Following User Says Thank You to chip For This Useful Post: | | | 5th January 2008, 15:12 | #9 (permalink) | | Tenerifian Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: tenerife Gender: Posts: 148 | malerone
when i worked in nigeria and equitorial guniea we had to use malerone tablets witch were 80 pound a box i could get them out a travel clinic or on a scripts but my doctor advised me that in the uk they were only licenced for a month, in nigeria we all new this and only took them before going ofshore but in new guinea there were guys on them for years and there were different side effects , even the boys who were on them were complaining about anger and parnoria but we were given the full degree in malabo and this nurse swore by them she said she had never seen or heard of anyone contacting malaria who used malarone if you do find out were you can get them cheaper let me know please thanks in advance i found the clinic next to my doctors was charging me double than boots, i found boots the cheapest ,when i jarred him about the price he said his chemist had over heads ect | | | | | The Following User Says Thank You to weebengal For This Useful Post: | | | 5th January 2008, 15:28 | #10 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Phuket, Thailand. Gender: Posts: 926 | I really would not bother, at all. you are most at risk during the rainy season....that finished 2 months ago and does not start again till September. It will not only be a waist of moeny but they make you ill, and cost a lot of money. I've been to Cambodia, and never got bit once, I don't get bit in Bangkok or here in Phuket either. I know, from the local press you're only at risk if you are mainly in the North, and then its in the jungle. You have been to Phuket, Bangkok last year and know...its hardly a jungle? Be safe, but don't bother, I wouldn't do it if I went. __________________
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