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Backpacks / Children

October 17, 2010 by kidstra
Backpacks too heavy for kids

Backpacks here. Backpacks there. Backpacks practically everywhere. Kids of all ages wear them – and, increasingly, so do adults. Toddlers wear them for the sake of wearing them, often empty and sometimes in the shape of cartoon characters. Older kids use them for books and sporting equipment and when hiking and traveling. For high school […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Recreation, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: backpack etiquette, backpack kids, backpacks, body weight, bodyweight, children, heavy backpacks, kids, shoulder straps, sporting equipment, Toddlers, waist strap

Air travel/children/hot beverages/aisle seats/injuries

October 3, 2010 by kidstra
Kids Travel Doc Hot Coffee Spill

Skip your hot tea and coffee when flying with young children – and hope that passengers in adjacent seats do the same. Every year hundreds of passengers, many of them children, are burned by such beverages spilling on them. The combination of hot drinks, crowding, turbulence, and children is a formula for an accident waiting […]

Filed Under: Air Travel, Food & Water Precautions, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel, Travel Tagged With: Air Travel, aisle seats, children, coffee burn, coffee spill, hazards, hot beverages, hot coffee, hot tea, injuries, overhead bins, turbulence

Air Travel/Breast feeding/Infant death

September 11, 2010 by kidstra
Breastfeeding Air travel

Recently a four-week old infant died on a flight from Washington to Kuwait. The probable cause was the mother accidentally smothered the baby when the mother fell asleep while nursing her infant. This tragic event does not mean that nursing is unsafe during air travel. As far as is known this is the first time […]

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Infants and Young Children/Air Travel/Ear Problems

September 2, 2010 by kidstra
Ear Problems Kids

Ask pediatricians whether infants and young children can travel by air with ear infections and the likely answer is, no, they cannot. Ask pediatricians if they have ever seen a child with serious ear issues resulting from air travel and the likely answer is, no, they have not.  There is virtually nothing in the medical […]

Filed Under: Air Travel, Outdoor Recreation, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: Air Travel, Ear infections, ear problems, ear problems air travel, flight, Infants, pediatric travel advice, safe to travel, travel safety, young children

Children/Swimmer’s ear

August 23, 2010 by kidstra
Ear Discomfort

When children complain of ear discomfort in the summertime, chances are that they have swimmer’s ear, a condition important for you, the parent, to recognize. Early treatment can save you from a few days of having a very unhappy child on your hands and, perhaps, from having to seek medical care and all the hassle […]

Filed Under: Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: backyard pools, bathing caps, canal opening, chlorinated swimming pools, ear discomfort, ear drainage, ear drops, ear infection, ear wax, earache, eardrum, earlobe, fungi, hot tubs, medical care, muffled hearing. bacteria, non-chlorinated, oral antibiotics, outer ear canal, recreational water, salt water, skin lining the outer ear canal, swimmers earplugs, swimmer’s ear, whirlpools

Air travel/infants and children/ importance of vaccination

August 1, 2010 by kidstra
Infants Air Travel

Are your children’s vaccinations up-to-date before traveling by air? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in the past year alone there were more than 3,000 known airline passengers traveling while ill with a contagious disease.   1. The aircraft cabin environment abets the spread of disease-causing microorganisms. Infected passengers cough up, sneeze out […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel, Travel, Vaccinations Tagged With: air travel children, air travel infants, aircraft cabin, CDC, chickenpox, contagious, disease-causing organisms, diseases transmitted, flu epidemics, ill passengers, ill travelers, in flight, infectious illness, influenza vaccination, measles, medical staff, microorganisms, mumps, passengers traveling with disease, pertussis, spreading disease, symptomatic, traveling with infants, typhoid, unvaccinated children, unvaccinated visitors, vaccinated children, vaccination children, vaccine-preventable, yellow fever

Kids/Cookouts/Burns

July 18, 2010 by kidstra

To prevent children from being burned at cookouts, establish a “circle of safety” or a “forbidden zone” around cooking grills and campfires. Draw the line in the ground (literally, if possible) or delineate the area in some other way.  Even though such burns are preventable with reasonable precautions, each year more than 3,000 American children […]

Filed Under: Food & Water Precautions, Outdoor Recreation, Prevention Tagged With: barbecues, burns, campfire safety, campfires, campgrounds, children, circle of safety, coals, cooking grills, cookout-related burns, cookouts, grills, kids, kids campfire, Kids Travel Doc, kids travel doctor, marshmellows

Infants/air travel/in-flight comfort/feeding – Just the facts!

July 3, 2010 by kidstra

Facts about infants/air travel/in-flight comfort/feeding: (This is an update of an earlier posting – but bears repeating). Check the top twenty entries on Google regarding infants/air travel/feeding or air travel/infants/health. Nineteen say that you must give infants lots of fluids to prevent them from becoming dehydrated. One entry says that in flight dehydration is a […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Prevention, Travel Tagged With: Air Travel, air travel with infants, air travelers, Diarrhea, feeding infants, in flight dehydration, in-flight comfort, infant feeding, infant health, Infants, Kids Travel Doc, kids travel doctor, sweating, Vomiting

Health Alert: Infants/Car Seats/Hazardous Away from Cars

June 16, 2010 by kidstra
Car Seat

Infant cars seats – when infants are aboard – belong strapped into the back seat of cars where they prevent injuries and save lives. They do NOT belong on beds, couches, chairs or kitchen counters, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. Car seats are not totally stable when standing alone. Sometimes they are accidentally tipped […]

Filed Under: Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: car seats, infant car seats, Infants, Kids Travel Doc

Children/Outdoors/Poison Ivy

June 9, 2010 by sonicblum

Mother Nature provides us with an infinite array of wonders. But it seems that she also possesses a mischievous streak, perhaps to remind us that “natural” is not synonymous with “beneficial,” as many people like to think. Poison ivy is a case in point. It affects countless millions of Americans each year. Here what you […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Recreation, Prevention Tagged With: poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, rash, urishiol
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