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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

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Exposure-based Traffic Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel in British Columbia.
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Neuronal Mechanisms and the Treatment of Motion Sickness.
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Automated actuation of nasal spray products: effect of hand-related variability on the in vitro performance of Flonase nasal spray.
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Drug Dev Ind Pharm. 2013 Apr 17. [Epub ahead of print
Determinants of vitamin d status in fair-skinned women of childbearing age at northern latitudes.
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PLoS One. 2013 Apr 9;8(4):e60864. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060864. Print 2013
Fears of Violence During Morning Travel to School.
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Modifiable lifestyle behavior patterns, sedentary time and physical activity contexts: A cluster analysis among middle school boys and girls in the SALTA study.
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J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2013 Apr 3. doi: 10.1038/jes.2013.11. [Epub ahead of print
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Local public health response to vaccine-associated measles: case report.
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Seroepidemiology of dengue fever in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Pakistan.
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Using information technology and social networking for recruitment of research participants: experience from an exploratory study of pediatric Klinefelter syndrome.
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