I hope this isn't serious

[backofbeyond]

In a few weeks my son is off to China, Japan etc for the best part of six months. We've been trying to anticipate what might go wrong medically and have been looking for a simple diagnosis book that could be used to give him some idea whether he needs to seek help / take an asprin / lay off the booze, that kind of thing.

We've not been able to find anything though in bookshops and a quick google search has not brought up anything suitable either. Anyone here got any suggestions.

The sort of thing I had in mind was a pocket book - maybe phrasebook size, laid out with a kind of flowchart approach that would be easy to read when you wake up in the middle of the night with a headache / stomach ache / sweating or whatever. The kind of approach used to diagnose why your engine won't start - do you have a spark? Yes/No. If yes ... etc

I'm aware of the problems that could come from following the wrong thread and concluding that you've had too much sake when you've really got malaria but for someone with no medical knowledge at all its got to be better than nothing.