Long-term travel (more than 6 months) are associated with significant health risks as compared with short-term travel, the researchers found.Health problems among the participants long-term trips are often psychological in nature, as well as emerging diseases caused by parasites. Unfortunately, very few studies devoted to the causes of diseases than those who travel on the basis of the length of travel, while the topic important enough, said Dr. Lin H. Chen from Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.
The study used data collected from patients with travelers who visited the clinic, specializing in the treatment of tourists over 10 years, across 6 continents from 1996 to 2008. The researchers analyzed data from 4,039 people who traveled more than 6 months and 24,807 people who spent the journey is less than a month.
They found that people who prefer long journeys, much more often a fixed set of diseases, including chronic fatigue, diarrhea, malaria, and postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome. Also, such travelers often put a diagnosis of depression, stress and exhaustion than those who went into a short-term travel.
According to experts, should be lovers long journeys more carefully to prepare, making them the necessary vaccinations, and instructing the risk of a range of health problems that travelers soberly assessed the health effects after such long trips, reports Reuters.
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