Synopses & Reviews
Your Child Abroad: A Travel Health Guide is a down-to-earth guide for anyone traveling overseas with children, whether on a two-week family vacation or a long-stay posting in the developing world. The approach is both reassuring and practical, showing how to deal with situations ranging from the relatively minor to the life-threatening. A checklist of symptoms for common complaints and a range of useful contacts and further sources of information will prove invaluable for parents who are far from on-the-ground medical attention. This new edition provides a thorough update on the latest medical advice, including data on anti-malarial drugs, insect repellents, and immunizations.
This guide features:
>Accidents, first-aid advice, and what to include in a medical kit
>Region-by-region analysis of potential health risks and basic medical questions in five languages
>Natural and environmental hazards, including parasites
>Traveling with children and medical treatment abroad
Synopsis
A down-to-earth guide for anyone traveling overseas with children, whether on a two-week family vacation or a long-stay posting in the developing world.
Synopsis
Your Child Abroad: A Travel Health Guide is a down-to-earth guide for anyone traveling overseas with children, whether on a family vacation or a long-stay in the tropics. Reassuring and practical, it shows how to deal with situations ranging from minor illnesses to life-threatening emergencies.
Fully updated and revised for this second edition, this guide remains the best source of advice about planning and preparation, disease prevention, recognition of symptoms and how to react.
* By practicing doctors who have traveled widely and are child-health experts
* Advice on diagnosis and treatment
* Who is fit to fly; traveling with allergies
* New antimalarials and bite-prevention gismos
* First-aid guidance and suggested kits
* Basic medical questions in five languages
* Region-by-region analysis of risk
* Special notes for expatriates
About the Author
Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is a general practitioner who has worked in England, Asia, South America, and Africa. She presently lives in Cambridge.
Dr. Matthew Ellis is a pediatrician and father who has practiced in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Nepal, and is now working in Bristol.
Table of Contents
(1) Planning (2) What to Take (3) Medical Kit and Treatment (4) Journeys (5) Child Care from One Month to Adolescence (6) Avoiding Diarrhea (7) Natural and Environmental Hazards (8) Accidents, Emergencies and Minor Injuries (9) Illness in Infants 1-12 Months: Is My Baby Ill? (10) Illness in Children over One Year: Diagnosis and Treatment (11) Expatriate Life (12) Returning Home after Travel Abroad