TripHip - Travel Tips and Advice for Traveling on a Budget

If you are prone to hayfever or other kinds of seasonal allergies, I suggest you pack your preferred allergy medication with you even if you are not traveling during your usual allergy season. You never know what kinds of plants and pollen will be around at your destination.

Anyone with food allergies knows that they need to be careful when ordering meals in a restaurant. It can be even more risky if you are eating away from home, and possibly in a restaurant where no one speaks English.

If your allergies are more annoying than life threatening, you could get by with learning some words in the local language so you can ask if your trigger foods are in any dish.

For a more severe allergy that you can't risk, you will have to stick to major restaurants where the menus are in English and the staff speak it as well.