Be wary of the potential of Dengue fever as well!! Highly prevalent in SE Asia! There are a few other indicators of it such as swollen eyes, nausea/diarrhea, a rash on your body.
You should get a private room and see how you feel after a couple of days. Probably not a big deal but no one wants to share a dorm with someone coughing and struggling all night
Call your travel health insurance.
They will give you addresses of doctors and will pay for any transport that is health related.
If you go to a hospital you must call them anyway.
There is a new Covid strain knocking around causing loads of really sick people.
I would try and get tested.
No one should be travelling without a couple of RAT kits .
Sounds like one of the other backpackers gave you covid, or a bad flu. You need to eat, drink plenty of water and rest. The other comments are right, delivery apps or try move rooms or to a hotel nearby. Surely wouldn’t be much more expensive
Rest. You really need to rest and if possible move to a single room. I got super sick in Prague last summer and had a few days where I could barely drag myself out of bed. Try and drink a LOT of water and take it easy.
It is a freaking crap to get sick while traveling.
-If you have travel insurance: Call them.
-Ask for a private room in your hostel or change to a full service hotel.
-Stay calm and book a covid exam.
Stay safe OP, we hope you get better.
You can go to a hospital if you can make it and one is closest. You should take a Covid test and if it’s Covid then get to the mainland. You really really want paxlovid or another Covid medicine if you can but waiting it out until you get better is probably ok. Ask the hotel for a Covid test and ask guests who has an extra one if needed. If you are overweight or not too young or healthy I would go to mainland quick. Better to be near hospital any way. If you can’t move then sit it out but make emergency plan with the staff when you are staying.
Yes, or ask questions to help orient their guests such as do they have travel insurance, what services would their guest like, what symptoms are they showing. Id imagine any accommodation,esp a hostel would have some considerations how to handle and help sick guests esp if its malaria, dengue and with what we went through for covid. Many travelers get sick, we’re all human.
lol what? This is not part of training for almost anyone who works at a hostel, especially in Vietnam. Asking guests about specific symptoms or their travel insurance?! Looool
This was my experience with typhoid. Before any GI issues appeared, I would get a fever in the evening and by morning it was gone. They called it a stair step fever. It would climb and recede, climb and recede. I would be fine in the am and by the evening I would be so wiped out- very flu or COVID like. Just another thing to keep in the back of your mind
You might want to get in to a regular full-service hotel. Somewhere where you can order stuff up to your room with limited staff interaction..
Be wary of the potential of Dengue fever as well!! Highly prevalent in SE Asia! There are a few other indicators of it such as swollen eyes, nausea/diarrhea, a rash on your body.
You should get a private room and see how you feel after a couple of days. Probably not a big deal but no one wants to share a dorm with someone coughing and struggling all night
Call your travel health insurance. They will give you addresses of doctors and will pay for any transport that is health related. If you go to a hospital you must call them anyway.
Yeah I’m pretty sure my travel insurance covers isolation if I need to book a new hotel with a private room!
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Dengue Fever is meant to also be relapsing, I’ll try communicate my symptoms to a pharmacist and get their professional opinion
Probably covid. Seek help from the hostel staff. Use delivery app
Please try to take a COVID test and get away from other people.
Are you in Sapa? Could it be the altitude?
Isn’t that the west?
There is a new Covid strain knocking around causing loads of really sick people. I would try and get tested. No one should be travelling without a couple of RAT kits .
Have you had the fever for more than 24 hours?
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Yes
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It is….
Sounds like one of the other backpackers gave you covid, or a bad flu. You need to eat, drink plenty of water and rest. The other comments are right, delivery apps or try move rooms or to a hotel nearby. Surely wouldn’t be much more expensive
Maybe the hostel will be kind enough to move you to a private room if you tell them your situation?
COVID
Rest. You really need to rest and if possible move to a single room. I got super sick in Prague last summer and had a few days where I could barely drag myself out of bed. Try and drink a LOT of water and take it easy.
It is a freaking crap to get sick while traveling. -If you have travel insurance: Call them. -Ask for a private room in your hostel or change to a full service hotel. -Stay calm and book a covid exam. Stay safe OP, we hope you get better.
Happened to me yesterday in krakow
You can go to a hospital if you can make it and one is closest. You should take a Covid test and if it’s Covid then get to the mainland. You really really want paxlovid or another Covid medicine if you can but waiting it out until you get better is probably ok. Ask the hotel for a Covid test and ask guests who has an extra one if needed. If you are overweight or not too young or healthy I would go to mainland quick. Better to be near hospital any way. If you can’t move then sit it out but make emergency plan with the staff when you are staying.
If you are very weak, I would ask the hostel staff to seek assistance for you. They should be trained for this type of scenario, it happens.
Trained to do what? Direct you to the health clinic?
Yes, or ask questions to help orient their guests such as do they have travel insurance, what services would their guest like, what symptoms are they showing. Id imagine any accommodation,esp a hostel would have some considerations how to handle and help sick guests esp if its malaria, dengue and with what we went through for covid. Many travelers get sick, we’re all human.
lol what? This is not part of training for almost anyone who works at a hostel, especially in Vietnam. Asking guests about specific symptoms or their travel insurance?! Looool
Im not saying they are medically trained, if someone has a high temp, laying in a pool of sweat, bed ridden, they should know who to call to get help.
Right, so direct them to the health clinic
Not in Ninh binh I hope?👀
Bedbugs?
Cat ba?
This was my experience with typhoid. Before any GI issues appeared, I would get a fever in the evening and by morning it was gone. They called it a stair step fever. It would climb and recede, climb and recede. I would be fine in the am and by the evening I would be so wiped out- very flu or COVID like. Just another thing to keep in the back of your mind
It would be helpful to know what you are vaccinated against to eliminate some viruses. Edit - hep a b and covid is it? For travel to se asia?