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 [...]
Families/Overseas travel/Medications Part 2 of 2
January 4, 2012
Dr. Neumann’s KidsTravelDoc: Children/Airport Security/New Procedures
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 [...]
Dr. Karl Neumann’s Kids Travel Doc: Children/Measles /Travel
March 4, 2011
Caution: travel is hazardous for children who are not fully immunized. And it doesn’t matter who is doing the traveling – your child or perfect strangers. • Example: Last month, a woman with a communicable case of measles traveled by air from London to New Mexico, stopping at airports in Baltimore, Denver, and Albuquerque. Similar [...]
Dr. Karl Neumann’s Kids Travel Doc: Air travel/ infants/crying/remedies
December 6, 2010
For many people one of the biggest fear of flying is sitting next to a screaming child, says the New York Times, “Please Refrain from Tantrums Aboard,” (November 14.) According to the article, some travelers are doing some fussing of their own. They’re calling for airlines to implement child-free flights, designate “family-only” sections, or provide [...]
Dr. Neumann’s Kid Travel Doc: Air travel/children/hot beverages/aisle seats/injuries
October 3, 2010
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 [...]
Dr. Karl’s Neumann’s Kids Travel Doc: Air Travel/Breast feeding/Infant death
September 11, 2010
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 [...]
Dr. Neumann’s Travel Advice: Infants and Young Children/Air Travel/Ear Problems
September 2, 2010
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 [...]
Dr. Neumann’s TenTips: Newborns/Air Travel/Health and Safety
August 5, 2010
There is nothing novel about infants traveling by air. They have been doing so since time immemorial, long before adults. Legend has it that they were “delivered” by storks, and were never the worse for their trips. Of course, stork flights skimmed rooftops, eliminating concerns of high altitude and accompanying ear issues, dehydration, and excessive [...]
Infants/air travel/in-flight comfort/feeding – Just the facts!
July 3, 2010
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 [...]
Infants/sleeping/away from home/cribs/health and safety
April 5, 2010
Before traveling with an infant, consider the following: How will he or she sleep (or not sleep) away from home? Should your infant sleep in your bed? Are car seats OK for overnight sleeping? Are hand-me-down cribs at grandmother’s house acceptable? What about cribs available in hotels? Are portable travel cribs safe? Here is what [...]
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