The odds of your family returning home from a vacation with bedbugs are extremely small – but steadily increasing. Bedbugs have been known for centuries. But in recent decades they have kept a low profile, restricting themselves to mostly seedy establishments. No more. They are popping up all over the world, sometimes in the plushest […]
Travel/Children/Bedbugs
July 31, 2009 by sonicblum
Filed Under: Insects, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: bed bug, bed bugs, bedbug, bedbugs, bedbugs bite, disease-causing organisms, exterminator, hotels, infestation, insecticides, itching, ultrasonic devices
Children/Outdoors/Poison Ivy
July 6, 2009 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 […]
Filed Under: Outdoor Recreation, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: anesthetics, antihistamines, blisters, contagious, cortisone, hollister moisture barrier, itching, ivy, outdoors, plants, poison, poison ivy, poison ivy wash, poison oak, poison sumac, rash, tecnu ivy scrub, urishiol, urushiol, zanfel
