Your Child Abroad: A Travel Health Guide

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ISBN-10: 184162120

ISBN-13: 9781841621203

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Table of Contents

PART ONE PLANNING: DISEASE PREVENTION

Chapter 1 Planning
Early decisions, Practical concerns, Immunisations and other preparations

Chapter 2 What to take
Packing, Protective items, Useful equipment for infants and small children, Equipment checklist

Chapter 3 Medical Kit and Treatment
Medical kit, Treatment abroad, Rules to consider when prescribing medicines for your family

Chapter 4 Journeys
Getting there, Fit to fly, Travelling around abroad

Chapter 5 Child Care from One Month to Adolescence
Tots to teens, Tropical health problems, Accident prevention, Feeding the baby, Other food hazards, What’s in a nappy?, Trivial but tedious problems

Chapter 6 Avoiding Diarrhoea
Food and drink

Chapter 7 Natural and Environmental Hazards
Bugs and biting beasts, Reptiles, Mammals, Plants which sting or irritate, Beach and seaside hazards, River and freshwater hazards, Sunburn, prickly heat and heatstroke, Mountains, the cold and altitude sickness, Hazards: a summary

PART TWO ACCIDENTS AND ILLNESS

Chapter 8 Accidents, Emergencies and Minor Injuries

Chapter 9 Illness in Infants 1-12 Months: Is My Baby Ill?

Chapter 10 Illness in Children over One Year: Diagnosis and Treatment

Chapter 11 Expatriate Life

Chapter 12 Returning Home after Travel Abroad

Appendix 1 Useful Addresses and Further Information and Advice

Appendix 2 Further Reading

Appendix 3 Glossary of Terms

Appendix 4 Communicating Medical Problems

Index

About the Authors

Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth is a general practitioner, medical director of a travel clinic, mother and zoologist who has worked in Asia, South America, Africa and England; these days she lives in East Anglia. Jane lectures on travel health to back-packers, gappers, budding development volunteers, doctors and nurses and has contributed a double page health feature to almost every issue of Wanderlust since it was launched in 1993. Her writing has also appeared in the Independent, the Guardian and BBC Wildlife magazine. Her website is www.wilson-howarth.com.

Dr Matthew Ellis is a consultant paediatrician and father who has practised in Sudan, Ethiopia and Nepal. He first studied social anthropology at Cambridge University and went on to train in paediatrics in Liverpool before heading for Ethiopia to run an innovative healthworker training project. He joined the Centre for International Child Health at University College London, to run a research programme aiming to reduce birth problems in Nepali hospitals. On his return to the UK became a consultant community paediatrician in Bristol specialising in neurodisability. This year, Matthew and Jane wrote a travel health chapter in a textbook for paediatricians.

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Notes from the Authors

"How do you organise and cope with the daunting responsibilities of travelling with a young family? This book will help you plan and will reassure you while abroad. It is aimed at anyone leaving home with children whether they are heading for Southend, Spain, Singapore or South America. It concentrates on prevention of illness and advises you what to do if your child seems to be off-colour or unwell. Since medical problems are at the front of many travelling parents' minds we have covered all illnesses likely to worry or assail you wherever you end up: whether in Makalu, Machu Picchu, Vanuatu, Timbuktu or Corfu.

We assume no medical knowledge and presume that there may be no competent medical help within a day or two of wherever you find yourselves; and then tell you how to manage the full range of possible medical problems. Where there is some debate about the 'best' treatment of a condition we have supplied information so you can make your own judgements. However, most parents, indeed most travellers, worry more about health matters than they need. Travelling families are unlikely to get struck down by horrendous tropical pox and the few real risks are highlighted and precautions for avoidance given. Throughout the book we have included case histories to illustrate the medical points; but one of the problems we have had is to accumulate good juicy scare-stories, since travelling families generally don't get into much trouble!"

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