Entries Categorized as 'Safe & Healthy Travel'
January 15, 2012
Fasten your seatbelts – family air travel is heading for turbulence. Children are becoming persona non grata in the supposedly friendly skies.
London’s Daily Mail reports that several major airlines are considering child-free sections on aircraft and child-free flights. The Wall Street Journal asks, “Will new airline seating proposals create “baby ghettos” in the back of [...]
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January 4, 2012
This is Part 2 of a two part series. To read Part 1, please click here.
You need not be under suspicion of possessing narcotics to be hassled by security and customs inspectors at airports. Families have been hassled for merely carrying everyday, over-the-counter medications, have had the medications confiscated, missed their flights and, very rarely, [...]
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December 11, 2011
Are you familiar with the harmful effects that may result from medications you give your children? That when you give more than one medication, the two may interact and cause adverse reactions not caused by one alone? That travel-related factors can cause additional interactions?
(This is Part 1, one of a two-part series. Watch for our [...]
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November 24, 2011
There is an old saying that children always become ill at inopportune times. But are there opportune times?
Especially exasperating is when they choose family vacations for their illnesses. Worse, you then discover that your insurance policy does not reimburse you for medical expenses incurred away from home, provides no assistance in finding medical care, and [...]
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October 3, 2011
Thank you for making our website, KidsTravelDoc and our newsletter, TenTips the sources for keeping kids healthy and safe for travel and outdoor recreational activities. TenTips has almost 7,000 subscribers in about 55 countries. Our articles frequently make the top five references on Google.
In fact, we have many more readers than subscribers. Many of you [...]
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September 17, 2011
Children/Airport Security/ New Rules
Good news for parents traveling by air with their children. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that it is easing airport security screening procedures for children under the age of 12 years, and is also easing the rules for carrying liquid medications. But expect occasional exceptions to the new rules.
Here [...]
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August 24, 2011
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 temperature. [...]
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August 7, 2011
Common sense, air conditioning and readily available drinking water have greatly reduced the incidence of heat-related illness in infants and children. But don’t let your vigil down. Cases do still occur, generally due to lack of forethought, and sometimes with horrific results.
Here is what you must know:
1. The younger the child, the more susceptible to [...]
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July 17, 2011
Motor vehicle-related accidents – not illnesses – are the biggest threat for families traveling overseas. While illnesses occur far more frequently – and children are especially susceptible – most illnesses are minor. On the other hand, injuries, whether to car occupants or pedestrians, are the leading cause of death of Americans overseas and of British [...]
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July 4, 2011
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 less likely [...]
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