Advice for Families Traveling to Developing Countries With Young Children. (September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doan, Sylvia; Steele, Russell W.
• Is Part Of: Clinical pediatrics. Volume 52:Number 9(2013)
• Page Start: 803
• Page End: 811
• Publication Date: 2013-09
• Subjects: travel -- travel medicine -- travel vaccines -- malaria -- traveler's diarrhea; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; 618.920005
• DOI: 10.1177/0009922813491313
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-9228

Abstract

Young children are most likely to travel to developing countries with their parents to visit relatives. Preparation for such travel must include careful counseling and optimal use of preventive vaccines and chemoprophylaxis. For infants and very young children, data defining safety and efficacy of these agents are often limited. However, accumulated experience suggests that young travelers may be managed similarly to older children and adults.