Don’t want to get sick on a trip? Bring a hand sanitizer

In a French survey of travellers to countries where diarrhoeal illnesses are common, the people who used hand sanitizer were half as likely to have their trips spoilt.

“Use of hand sanitizer is highly acceptable by travellers and is associated with a reduction in the incidence of travellers’ diarrhoea and/or vomiting,” the authors write in their report published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.