Your Child Abroad: A Travel Health Guide [Paperback]

Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth (Author), Dr Matthew Ellis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

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

Editorial Reviews

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"...offers practical no-nonsense advice." The Times "An invaluable publication for parents travelling off the beaten track (and even on it)." Family Travel "...straightforward advice about planning and preparation as well as information on preventative care...in an easy-to-use format." Geographical Magazine "Peace of mind has rarely been so immediate and compact." Sunday Times "Excellent." The Independent "The answer for stress-free independent family travel." Outdoor Pursuits magazine

From the Back Cover

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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 2nd edition (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184162120X
• ISBN-13: 978-1841621203
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,043,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable for parents traveling with children, April 11, 2000

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Wendy Leonard - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Traveling Parents (Paperback)

This book is so informative and so interesting, it is absolutely mandatory for parents traveling with children in areas of the world where there are health issues beyond your experience. There is a prodigious amount of up-to-date and accessible information packed into this volume--and it's the kind of book that you want to read from cover to cover, even the parts less relevant to your needs. My husband and I recently returned from a six-month sojourn in Thailand, Laos and Burma with our four children (aged 7, 5, 3 and 1). We carried this book as part of our medical kit, and it was invaluable in preparing that medical kit and also in helping to plan our trip itinerary (i.e., the book convinced us that malaria was the one nonnegotiable health issue). Memorable anecdotes from expatriate and traveling families pepper the book. There's nothing else like this out there.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Guide on Travel Concern for Parents, July 29, 2009

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littleplum "littleplum" (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Child Abroad: A Travel Health Guide (Paperback)

This book is now the only book I take on our travel (Taiwan, U.K., France, etc) -- it is an excellent resource addressing everything from the likelihood of certain diseases in different regions of the world to how to handle health concerns for kids and when/how to take action when needed. I'd highly recommend this to parents traveling with kids. Not to mention, I got our best air travel tip from this book (wrapping up some toys/books as presents on long trips as a special surprise).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A little out-of-date, but still helpful, January 4, 2012

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R&A (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Your Child Abroad: A Travel Health Guide (Paperback)

I wish the author and publisher of this book would update it! Some of its information is a little out-of-date (especially about vaccinations, such as for Japanese Encephalitis), but I still find the book helpful as I prepare to birth my first child in a foreign country. My husband and I currently use this book when we have questions about our own maladies. I find the book to be organized a little counter-intuitively for some purposes since everything is divided by area of the body and/or symptom; I can't easily look up the symptoms of a specific malady if I suspect we might have it. Nevertheless, I am sure I will consult this book first when I'm worried about whether I should take my child to the doctor.