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Services Provided by the Children's Travel Doc

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One consultation prepares you for every step of your trip:

 

Travel logistics & in-flight comfort:

  • Sleep in travel, sleep aids and jet lag prevention and treatment

  • Managing in flight ear pain

  • Child ID solutions (wristbands, tattoos, notarised letters), what to do if your child gets lost, how to report to authorities overseas

  • Choosing the right travel insurance cover for a child 

  • Transiting airports with breast or bottle milk

  • Airport scanner advice in pregnancy, in flight radiation in pregnancy 

 

Ensuring a happy holiday:

  • Culture shock prevention

  • Managing screen time, travel anxiety, and routine disruption

  • Motion sickness prevention and treatment

 

Health risks at destination:

  • Bite prevention for mosquito-borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue, and Zika

  • Choosing and apply insect repellent correctly

  • Management of insect and tick bites and heat rash in babies

  • Managing tummy bugs, preventative medications, recognising and responding to dehydration

  • Malaria medication options by age – and how to test medicine before travel

  • Rabies vaccine and management of animal bites

 

Vaccinations:

  • Planning the travel vaccines your child may need based on destination risk 

  • Country-specific entry vaccines like yellow fever

  • Discussing vaccine side effects and risk appetite

  • Ensuring routine vaccines (e.g. Flu, COVID) are up to date before transiting the airport 

  • Vaccines given in a child friendly environment with the latest distraction techniques and technology 

 

Safety and medical needs:

  • Water and pool safety

  • Drink spike safety for Young people

  • Managing allergies, asthma, ADHD, and use of restricted medications overseas 

  • Prescription of extra medications for travel

 

Dedicated Q&A time: Space for concerns and practical travel questions - from LGBTQ+ travel to replacing lost meds abroad

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