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Bradt Guide Your Child's Health Abroad
Ref: BRA006
Your Child Abroad is a down-to-earth guide for anyone travelling 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 check-list 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 information on anti-malarial drugs, insect repellents and immunisations as well as case histories to learn from.
• 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, from parasites to piranhas
• Travelling with children and medical treatment abroad
Book Reviews
"...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
Author's Note, by Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth & Dr Matthew Ellis
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!
Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth is a general practitioner and mother who has worked in England, Asia, South America and Africa, and presently lives in Cambridge. Dr Matthew Ellis is a paediatrician and father who has practised in Sudan, Ethiopia and Nepal, and is now working in Bristol.
£10.95
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