Your doctor or medical team should be able to advise you on whether it’s safe to travel (and fly) with your hernia.

We can only provide travel insurance if your doctor would declare you’re fit to travel.

There may be occasions where travelling immediately after hernia surgery can be deemed safe and you’re fit to travel, as long as extra precautions are taken. This can mean not lifting heavy suitcases or undertaking strenuous activity.

There is an increased risk of swelling and strangulation, if you travel with a protruding hernia, so it’s important to listen to the advice of your doctor.

Some of the types of hernia we cover include:

• Inguinal
• Incisional
• Femoral
• Umbilical
• Hiatus

To find out whether we can cover your hernia, we'll first need you to complete our medical screening process.

Common questions we may ask you include:

• What kind of hernia do you have?
• Do you take regular medication for your hernia?
• Has your hernia been successfully treated with surgery?

You can answer these questions online or by talking to a member of our helpful team over the phone. They'll help you through the process and answer any other questions you may have.

Carrying an EHIC is a condition of our travel insurance if you're going on holiday in most parts of Europe.

When travelling with a hernia, if you do use your EHIC and you’ve still had to pay a subsidised fee for healthcare, we’ll remove the excess fee for medical emergency claims.

However, an EHIC does not cover you for non-medical issues that can go wrong. If you have to cancel your holiday, or if you have to pay for medical transportation home, an EHIC will not cover you properly. An EHIC isn’t a substitute for good travel insurance.

That's not a problem. You can call us 24 hours a day - so it doesn't matter which side of the world you're on.

We'll help arrange medical treatment with local doctors, and we'll also provide translation if you need it. If you need to, you can even reverse the charges when calling us.

If something changes before you go on your trip, we'll need you to tell us. It's always worth doing right to make sure you’re covered.

Whether it's an update on your medical conditions or medication, or adding optional extras to your holiday, please do speak to us and we'll do our best to see if we can increase the coverage where necessary.