How to keep healthy when travelling in Bali?

Before travelling

• Register your trip with Smart Traveller

• Make sure you have enough of your regular prescription medicines
• Ensure you’re up-to-date with your routine vaccinations
• Take out travel insurance - to cover you and your family for medical and other costs resulting from unexpected incidents and accidents, or COVID-19
• Put together a travel kit with medication for pain, diarrhoeal medicine, oral rehydration salts, antiseptic lotion or ointment, adhesive bandages and other wound dressings, insect repellent, sunscreen, latex gloves, thermometer, motion sickness medicine, water purification tablets and compression stockings

During travel

• The tap water in Bali is not safe to drink
  Only drink bottled or filtered water and check the seal on water bottles (some stores sell boiled water in recycled bottles). Avoid ice in your drinks, and check that salad and fruit have been washed with filtered water prior to eating
• Drink spiking/poisoning from alcoholic drinks can occur in Bali and has been reported in the past.
  Alcoholic drinks have been known to have been contaminated with harmful substances (e.g. methanol). To protect yourself from poisoning, never leave your drink unattended while you are out, avoid home-made alcoholic drinks and drink only at reputable, licensed premises.
• Traveller's diarrhoea or ‘Bali belly’ is common in Bali.
  Important ways to prevent traveller’s diarrhoea include:
  • ensure you wash your hands with soap and water regularly
  • where possible, opt for fully cooked fresh food and only eat fruit that you peel yourself.
• Avoid mosquito bites,as dengue fever and other insect-borne diseases are a risk in Bali. Protect yourself with insect repellent, wearing cloths that cover your arms and legs, and staying in accommodation that has air conditioning, nets or screened windows. 
• Rabies is a deadly disease and considered a risk in in Bali. It is spread by the bite, lick or scratch of an infected animal, such as a dog or a monkey. Avoid close contact with wild and domestic animals, this is especially important for children. Do not carry food around, or feed/play with monkeys or other animals. Vaccinations for rabies are available– your doctor can advise whether vaccinations are required for your trip.
• Use high-quality condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes, syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS.
• Diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B can also be spread through fluids such as blood and semen.
• To protect yourself, do not inject drugs, do not share needles or devices that can break the skin including those used for tattooing, piercings or acupuncture. Vaccinations are available for hepatitis B.