A patient needs to be 200% sure of his medical condition before he decides to travel after a surgery or illness.
Consulting a doctor and taking his approval is very essential for a patient, before planning any travel. He or she needs to instruct you on any precautions that you need to take and the essential medication that you need to carry with you. A long distance medical transportation services company will be able to guide you on the minimum time gap that a patient must keep between a medical condition and his next travel.
Let’s read more about these essential time gaps –
- In a major chest and middle ear surgery, a patient can only travel after ten days.
- For all cataract surgeries or corneal lasers he can travel only after a day’s rest.
- In a surgery for removal of tonsils, the patient can only travel after six days.
- For an appendectomy or a key hole surgery, a patient can travel after four days only.
- A patient who has undergone an angioplasty can travel only after three to five days.
- All patients recovering from a heart surgery are advised to travel only after months rest.
- Patients who are recovering from a heart attack should travel only after seven days, if necessarily required.
- People suffering from angina attacks can fly anytime, but need to keep their medication handy.
- Asthma patients can travel at will, but need to carry their inhalers with them.
- People who are recovering from a stroke need to rest for three days at least.
- Patients suffering from epilepsy should not travel within 24 hours of a fit.
- People suffering from any kind of sinus or ear infections should avoid travelling till the time the infection is thoroughly healed.
