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Children /Hotel Bathrooms/Safety
Warning: hotel bathrooms are hazardous for your children – even more hazardous than the bathrooms in your home. 1. Upscale hotel plumbing is all about sleek appearance. Even adults have difficulty deciphering the numerous knobs on tubs and showers, for example. One never knows where the water is going to come out, and at what […]
Traveling Healthy
Polio in Russia. Measles in France. E. coli in Germany. Diseases that are particularly harmful to children. Diseases that you thought you would no longer hear much about are popping up in countries where you least expect to find them. Health-wise, is foreign travel become more hazardous? 1. On the contrary. Foreign travel is […]
New Recommendations for Infant Car Safety Seats
Just when you thought that you knew all you had to know about children’s car safety seats, the experts come up with a slew of new recommendations, forcing you to rethink what you were sure that you already knew. 1. The new recommendations: Children should ride in rear-facing safety seats until they are two years […]
The Modern Medical Kit for Family Travel
The Modern Medical Kit for Family Travel A small, customized medical kit can be a real lifesaver when traveling with children. Never leave home without one. 1. Technology is the new first aid. Cell phones enable you to consult with all your child’s health care providers – pediatricians, orthodontists and allergists, for example. (Surprise! they […]
Thanksgiving Health Alert
When your family gathers for Thanksgiving Day, use the opportunity to gather information about the health of all your relatives. Such information may help improve your own health, that of your children, and that of unborn generation. In the U.S, the Surgeon General has declared Thanksgiving Day as National Family Health Day. However, any family […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder in Children
A frequent dose of sunshine is the right tonic to keep your kids hale and hearty if you reside where winters are long and the days short. Here is what you should know: 1. Sunlight helps minimize being sad and having SAD. Sad (small letters) is having the “winter blues.” SAD (capital letters) stands for […]