Useful tips

Travelling with children

Parents should take special care when travelling with young children. Good preparation is important.

• Remember to include children in your travel insurance.
• Seek advice about vaccinations and anti-malarial medication from your doctor.
• Ask the airline about special seating and cots in good time.
• When travelling with a baby carry a bottle or dummy for the baby to suck on during take off and landing. This helps to equalise ear pressure and reduces discomfort.
• Keep some form of identification attached to your child in case you become separated.
• For emergency purposes, take along several recent photographs of your child. Leave extra copies with another family member.
• Be prepared for possible travel sickness.
• Take books or toys to relieve boredom.
• Use high factor sunscreens and keep children out of the midday sun.
• Give children frequent cool drinks to avoid dehydration.
• Be scrupulous about food and water hygene.
• Take rehydration sachets in case of diarrhoea.
• Keep children away from stray or sick animals.
• Seek medical advice immediately if an illness persists.

Travelling by car:

• Make sure cars or coaches have child seats and belts
• Respect childrens eating habits
• Respect childrens sleeping habits
• Take breaks every two hours
• Remember:
  • 1. Games
  • 2.Walkman
  • 3. CD-player
  • 4. A pillow
  • 5. Toy-Pets

Travel with children Resource:

Are narrow-band ultraviolet B home units a viable option for continuous or maintenance therapy of photoresponsive diseases?
Haykal KA, DesGroseilliers JP.
J Cutan Med Surg. 2006 Sep-Oct;10(5):234-40
Reconciling competing priorities in commissioning: the future of bone densitometry service for North Wales.
Atenstaedt RL, Payne S, Roberts R, Russell I, Russell D, Edwards RT.
Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2007 Jan 18;5:1
[Travel during pregnancy and possibilities of vaccination].
Adamkovicová E, Jarcuska P, Schréter I.
Klin Mikrobiol Infekc Lek. 2006 Dec;12(6):224-8. Review. Slovak.
New guidelines on malaria prevention: A summary.
Swales CA, Chiodini PL, Bannister BA; Health Protection Agency Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention in UK Travellers.
J Infect. 2007 Feb;54(2):107-10
Applying research evidence to optimize telehomecare.
Bowles KH, Baugh AC.
J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2007 Jan-Feb;22(1):5-15. Review
Traveler's diarrhea: a 50-year perspective. Proceedings of a conference organized by the International Society of Travel Medicine. June 12-14, 2004. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.
[No authors listed]
Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Dec 1;41 Suppl 8:S521-86. No abstract available.
Travel-related thrombosis: is this a problem?
Brenner B.
Isr Med Assoc J. 2006 Dec;8(12):859-61. Review. No abstract available.
Routine chemoprophylaxis for travel-associated thrombosis? No.
Lubetsky A.
Isr Med Assoc J. 2006 Dec;8(12):862-3. No abstract available.
Soft tissue infections in Belgian rugby players due to Streptococcus pyogenes emm type 81.
Quoilin S, Lambion N, Mak R, Denis O, Lammens C, Struelens M, Maes S, Goossens H.
Euro Surveill. 2006 Dec 21;11(12):E061221.2. No abstract available.
Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Jamaica, October-December 2006.
Lawrence J, Chiodini P.
Euro Surveill. 2006 Dec 14;11(12):E061214.3. No abstract available.
HIV/AIDS in Europe: trends and EU-wide priorities.
Hamers FF, Devaux I, Alix J, Nardone A.
Euro Surveill. 2006 Nov 23;11(11):E061123.1. No abstract available.
Unexplained summer increase in non-travel-related legionellosis in the UK and Netherlands.
Joseph CA, van der Sande M.
Euro Surveill. 2006 Oct 18;11(10):E061018.1. No abstract available.
Will the surgical world become flat?
Milstein A, Smith M.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Jan-Feb;26(1):137-41
Sedentary behaviours among Australian adolescents.
Hardy LL, Dobbins T, Booth ML, Denney-Wilson E, Okely AD.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2006 Dec;30(6):534-40
Tunga penetrans: a stowaway from around the world.
Sachse MM, Guldbakke KK, Khachemoune A.
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2007 Jan;21(1):11-6. Review
The waiting time for inter-country spread of pandemic influenza.
Caley P, Becker NG, Philp DJ.
PLoS One. 2007 Jan 3;2(1):e143
Case-control study of shigellosis in San Francisco: the role of sexual transmission and HIV infection.
Aragón TJ, Vugia DJ, Shallow S, Samuel MC, Reingold A, Angulo FJ, Bradford WZ.
Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Feb 1;44(3):327-34. Epub 2006 Dec 29
Acceptance of anti-retroviral therapy among patients infected with HIV and tuberculosis in rural Malawi is low and associated with cost of transport.
Zachariah R, Harries AD, Manzi M, Gomani P, Teck R, Phillips M, Firmenich P.
PLoS One. 2006 Dec 27;1:e121
Travel job focus.
Stanshine I.
Am J Nurs. 2007 Jan;107(1):74. No abstract available.
Effects of backpacking holidays in Australia on alcohol, tobacco and drug use of UK residents.
Bellis MA, Hughes KE, Dillon P, Copeland J, Gates P.
BMC Public Health. 2007 Jan 2;7:1
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