Health Questionnaire

[Keys Kathy]

Attached is the questionnaire.

Barb

 

Do you happen to have the new questionnaire with the ebola questions on it?

[Paulras]

Do you happen to have the new questionnaire with the ebola questions on it?

 

"Do you have Ebola?".............sorry, I couldn't resist!

 

If I remember correctly from last month, it asked if you've been to those few African countries that have the Ebola outbreak in recent months. And if you're a healthcare worker who has cared for someone with Ebola. Don't quote me on it but that was the gist of the questions.

[cb at sea]

The questionnaire is as silly as when at airports they asked about your luggage...had it been in your control...had anyone had access to it...etc....

Or, the Post Office nowadays asking if you are shipping "dangerous" materials.....if you are, do you think you'll tell them???

 

 

Ridiculous.

[blindrid]

This gave me a good chuckle. You know for sure you had her cold and cough, not one passed along by another of the 3000 or 4000 people on your cruise.

 

If she was allowed to board and the cruiseline knew she was so contagious shame on them I guess. But seriously, no cruise line is going to tell someone with a cold, especially in the winter, that theycan't cruise.

 

Agree. Geez, imagine getting a cold on a cruise? We're only around a few thousand of our closest friends in a confined area.

[alcpa1]

In November on RCI, but that's a whole different issue, we had the usual health questions and additional questions about foreign travel and Ebola. They were the same questions we got when we entered Canada via air.

I'm another with some luck. DH had the dreaded Noro on a cruise last year and I did not. I was also the only one of our group of 18 that did not get the upper respiratory illness on the November cruise. That was probably the reflective percentage of ill passengers on our ship too. When we returned home the local school system struggled to get to the Thanksgiving break without closing the schools due to the same illness. Close quarters....need I say more.

[Letsgo 2]

Attached is the questionnaire.

Barb

 

 

Hi Barb

so if I'm able to print this form out, that is the form that NCL uses also?

this way we can fill them out at home rather then waiting until we get to port.

 

Thanks

[mpace58]

January on the Connie the Flu was running rampant. DW caught it on day 6 of an 8 day, so not to bad. But when we went down to the DR office it was crowded with people that had come down with it. I stayed in the room as much as possible also. So of course the morning we disembarked I had some down with it also. Made for a long miserable drive home.

 

I witnessed a number of people coughing and not covering at all. Probably the same people that never use the sanitizer either.

[Lsimon]

If you answer yes to any of the questions, you may have a brief exam from the ship nurse or doctor to determine if you may have a very contagious GI illness. If you do, you may be escorted to your room for isolation along with medicine. The medical team will check in on you and clear you out of your cabin once you are not contagious. This is the best for all of the passengers... By not being honest, many people could be ill during their long planned vacation.

 

If they in fact followed this policy consistently then I think a lot more people would be honest. But as other posters here have attested, there are lots of stories from people, and their traveling companions, who were all denied boarding due to conditions they were certain were not a contagious illness. If the above procedures had been followed they would have been allowed to board and confined to their cabin until cleared which, in the case of food related nausea, would have happened pretty quickly.

 

Frequent cruisers are well aware that the lines often completely deny boarding if any box is checked yes and because of that they are likely to lie about an illness they believe will be short lived and not contagious.

[RedVelvetEverytime]

Oooh - I hope she was. I mean I know that there are some guidelines as to how late in your pregnancy you can cruise but being asked if you're pregnant and you aren't, that would be a bummer.

 

 

I've been asked if I'm pregnant a couple of times but I've never been offended. I think they just ask a lot of women to be on the safe side even if they don't look pregnant/plump!

[Shih-tzu]

So.....I guess I'm a tiny bit confused.....

 

I have allergies (so sometimes I have a runny nose or watery eyes). I take a medication that has a common side effect of a dry cough and sometimes the "back door trots". DH has same meds/issues.

 

None of these are contagious and what we have just learned to live with in our daily lives....so what some of you are saying, if we fly all the way to San Juan (at the paltry sum of $1300 each) we still may be denied boarding if we are honest on the questionnaire???

 

What would happen if you checked yes but wrote "medication related" and listed the medication? If they know anything about medications they would know that it is very common side effects...... If not, we will just stop taking the meds and let our blood pressure rise and sugar levels soar...:p

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[DancerOT]

I find the questionnaire a bit bizarre as due to my own medical issues and my profession, it would be difficult to be 100% truthful. I have allergies and have had them my whole life - they leave me with a runny nose on various days and sometimes a cough. I have also had motion sickness my whole life. Still to this day, I can quickly become nauseous (or worse) if I don't take the proper precautions when I fly. I also work with children - they get sick, they sneeze and cough on me, and sometimes other things.

 

My own personal runny nose and nausea are not contagious to others. I should not be denied boarding for them. If they abide by the "exposure" clause, then the cruise lines need to stop offering teacher discounts.

 

Everyone needs to learn how to wash their hands, not just rinse them. This is far more effective than hand sanitizer. This is especially true as some doctors do not recommend the use of hand sanitizer as it can actually weaken your immune system in the long run.

[Tiggertastic]

The questionnaire has a purpose but even when I've put no honestly I've been asked so many times 'do you have a cold' no if I did I'd have ticked yes

[Snit13]

Always check all the NO boxes and hold my breath. I have been cursed with allergy/sinus/lung issues most of my life. I cough a lot but it is COPD from years of smoking in addition to the allergy/sinus problems. People often look at me and move away so I just say COPD. Don't smoke.

[Earthworm Jim]

What would happen if you checked yes but wrote "medication related" and listed the medication?

 

Why would you take the chance? They are looking for contagious diseases, you know you don't have one, so answer the intent of the questionnaire rather than it's literal wording and say no.

 

The questionnaire is pointless. By the time a passenger has arrived at the terminal, they have already made the decision (correctly or not) that they are well enough to go. Having already made that decision, almost no one is going to give an answer on the form that would risk denying them boarding.

[mickey89]

................This is especially true as some doctors do not recommend the use of hand sanitizer as it can actually weaken your immune system in the long run.

 

What a ridiculous statement, I expect it is backed by validated research by Doctor Dick.

[cosmo4612]

Good day:

Just got back from 15 day Panama Canal cruise aboard Island Princess. Byou the time the ship docked in San Francisco, about 1/2 the ship was either coughing,sneezing or both.

Naturally everyone filled out the health questionnaire ( and some lied?).

Here is an age old question:Why are there health forms needed/required? If people are not going to answer questionnaire truthfully, what is the whole purpose on them to begin with.? Who came up with this in the first place?

Does anyone have any answers that make any sense?

Thanks

[sanger727]

Attached is the questionnaire.

Barb

 

 

I'm not saying that this isn't a questionnaire that's been used before; but I haven't seen it before. All the pre-cruise questionnaires I've seen have said something along the lines of: have you had a fever AND one of the following symptoms:.... and then goes on to list the coughing, runny nose, vomiting, whatever. Those make sense because a simple cold or issue with allergies most likely isn't going to cause a fever. So you can still answer honestly without bringing up unnecessary medical facts.

 

And no, I have to plan my vacations months ahead of time to get off work and I price watch forever to get the best deal. Even if I was completely refunded I'm not flushing that all down the drain (and losing out on my vacation week at work so basically no vacation that year), over a common cold that you were exposed to at work, at the supermarket, on the flight, in your hotel, all before you stepped onto the cruise ship.

 

 

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[Straughn]

Another allergy/sinus sufferer here. Several years go, I was booked on a cruise over Thanksgiving. The Monday before we were to sail, I came down with a doozy of a sinus infection, something I am prone to. As I usually do, I became hoarse and sounded like death warmed over. I called my doctor, explained my concerns about being able to board the ship even though I was not contagious. She had me come to the office, wrote a couple of prescriptions, one for a decongestant. She then wrote a letter, detailing my condition, saying that I had been seen and treated on whatever date, and listed the prescriptions. The last sentence was that, in her professional opinion, I was not contagious and was able to travel. She then had the letter notarized.

 

There was no point in lying on the form because I still sounded pretty awful on departure day. Sure enough, I got sent to see the nurse. I explained what I had and gave her the letter from my doctor. The nurse read it, asked to see the prescriptions, make a copy of the letter, attached it to my health questionnaire and said "Enjoy the cruise. I hope you feel better."

[Talex831]

You all need to be teachers! You'll be exposed to and build a resistance to pretty much everything after a few years! A few coughing adults on a cruise ship is nothing compared to the elementary classroom in winter! LOL

 

 

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[JaneStarr]

We were required to fill out the questionnaire for the second leg of our B2B cruise last month. No idea what would've happened if either of us had answered "yes" to any of the questions. All our belongings were still in our stateroom and any sickness, at that point, would've come from the prior 10 nights on the ship. Attached is a pic I snapped of the updated Public Health Questionnaire. (It's marked as a 6/27/16 revised form.)

 

 

 

 

 

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[lylone]

I sneeze often when someone walks by reeking of smoke or flowery perfume. There is a woman where I work that smokes often and sprays herself with perfume when she come back in the office. Just walking by my cube makes me sneeze.

One sneeze does not necessarily mean you are contagious.

[gerelmx]

It is ridiculous to be so strict with passengers when they themselves allow dogs to board

[Alakegirl]

I'm not following your argument, but dogs must be allowed on board by law. Contagious people are not a protected group under the law.

[KuffMUp]

You don't really have to lie because it does say "Fever AND Chills, Cough, Runny Nose, or Sore Throat." A simple cold you could have a cough and runny nose without fever.

 

Also, question 2 asks within the last 2 days have you developed Diarrhea or Vomiting. I had it for six months before the doctors figured out what was wrong. I don't recycle bile which is extremely irritating to your large intestine. So I correctly answered that I hadn't developed it in the last two days. Luckily, the doctors figured it out and I'm on medication for it. It was one heck of a way to lose weight though without trying - you don't digest fat!

[reilly1]

It's an insurance tick box for the cruise company, that's all.

 

 

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