Cartagena · Colombian Caribbean · Travel Medicine
Old Town runs on street food at 90°F. Pack the prescriptions before it costs you a day.
Get azithromycin, ondansetron, and a tropical-rash cream before you board the flight to Cartagena. Ready at your pharmacy in under 24 hours, in your bag before the walled city heat hits.
- Physician-founded
- Licensed in all 50 states
- HSA / FSA eligible
- Same-day Rx in most cases
Most Cartagena trips run 4 to 6 days — Old Town walks, rooftop dinners, a day boat to the Rosario Islands or Playa Blanca, and the heavy ceviche, arepa, and Caribbean seafood circuit that makes the city worth visiting in the first place. The climate sits at 82 percent average humidity with daytime highs of 86 to 91°F essentially every month of the year, which matches the heat-plus-street-food shape the CDC associates with traveler's diarrhea. Between 30 and 70 percent of travelers on 2-week Latin America trips report at least one episode, and Cartagena's mix of beachside ceviche stands, juice carts, and small Old Town comedores sits right in that band. The right prescriptions in your bag turn a bad ceviche into an inconvenience instead of a lost day in Getsemaní.
Colombia travel health guide — vaccines, snapshot overview, and what to review before you go.
Orders are reviewed and prescriptions sent to your pharmacy within 24 hours.
Booking questions, platform help, or just not sure where to start, give us a call.
+1 (302) 251-2302Rx at your pharmacy in three steps.
No appointment. No waiting room. Answer a few questions and a licensed provider reviews within hours.
Your destination, dates, health history, and current medications. Takes about 2 minutes.
A licensed clinician reviews your health profile, checks for interactions, and approves your prescription.
- Allergy screen passed
- Drug interactions clear
- Prescription approved
Your approved prescription is sent electronically to the pharmacy of your choice. Pick it up when your pharmacy has it ready.
Skip the appointment. Get the same Rx.
Both columns cover the visit and prescribing only. Your pharmacy bills the medication itself on either side.
Medications in the Cartagena plan
Cartagena medication FAQ
- Most travelers won't need them, but the math is unforgiving when you do. The CDC puts traveler's diarrhea incidence at 30 to 70 percent on 2-week trips through developing regions, and Cartagena's mix of 82 percent humidity, 90°F days, and the ceviche-and-street-food culture along Old Town and the Rosario Islands sits right in that band. Having the prescriptions in your bag before you fly means a bad meal becomes one day on the hotel balcony instead of a hunt for a Cartagena urgent-care that takes US insurance.
- Take 500 mg by mouth once daily for 3 days, starting at the first signs of significant diarrhea (typically 3 or more loose stools in 24 hours, or any diarrhea with fever, blood, or severe cramping). Most travelers feel better within 24 hours of the first dose. Take with water, with or without food. If you also have heavy nausea or you can't keep water down, the ondansetron in the Travel Pack dissolves on your tongue.
- Three prescriptions in one visit. Azithromycin 500 mg, taken once daily for 3 days, to treat bacterial traveler's diarrhea. Ondansetron (Zofran) dissolving tablets for nausea and vomiting from any cause, including the heat-and-ceviche combination that gets people in the Old Town. And clotrimazole-betamethasone (Lotrisone) cream, for the heat rashes, fungal flare-ups, and humid-climate skin issues that come with 82 percent humidity, salt water, and walking 25,000 steps a day in 90°F. Three risks, three prescriptions, one visit.
- No malaria prophylaxis is recommended for travel limited to Cartagena city per the CDC Yellow Book — the city sits at sea level on the Caribbean coast outside the malaria-risk zone (Amazon and Pacific regions of Colombia carry the malaria risk). Yellow fever vaccine is also not recommended for trips limited to Cartagena, Barranquilla, Cali, or Medellín. If your trip extends to the Amazon (Leticia), the Pacific coast (Nuquí, Bahía Solano), or the rural Caribbean lowlands, talk to your provider — that's a different prescription conversation.
- Dengue is a real risk on the Colombian Caribbean coast and Cartagena saw a significant case surge in 2025. There is no prescription that prevents dengue — prevention is mosquito-bite avoidance: EPA-registered repellent (DEET 20–30%), long sleeves at dawn and dusk, and air-conditioned or screened rooms. If you develop fever within 2 weeks of returning from Cartagena, see a doctor and tell them where you traveled. Wandr's medications treat the bacterial and heat-related problems you can actually pre-prescribe for — dengue isn't one of them.
- Orders are reviewed by a US-licensed provider and the Rx is sent electronically to your pharmacy within 24 hours. Most travelers can pick it up the same day.
- If a provider can't safely prescribe (rare, usually due to a contraindication), the visit fee is refunded in full. You only pay if the Rx is sent.
Walk the walls with the prescriptions you'll wish you had.
One visit, three prescriptions for Cartagena's heat-plus-street-food trifecta. Reviewed by a US-licensed provider, ready at your pharmacy before you fly.