My Three S’s: Snug, Secure, Safe Carseats
The proper use of infant, car and booster seats, as well as the perils of airbags and aircraft seats, are important for every parent to understand. With the Ford Motor Company recently...
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Germs, Germs, Go Away: Hand Hygiene
If you don't think hand-washing warrants a three-page report, after reading this you may want to sanitize the computer mouse you're using.If you don't think hand-washing warrants a three-page...
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A Healthy Family Beach Vacation
In winter, the doctor prescribes the beach for a family vacation, along with health tips for plane travel and a safe, worry-free vacation in the sun. As the weather gets colder, the snow shovel’s...
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Fleeing The Flu
When the cold weather approaches, Doc Holiday says it's time to consider the new flu vaccine, potentially a family traveler's best friend.When the cold weather approaches, Doc Holiday says it's...
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Health Tips For Safe Snowsports
When you've got family headed to ski resorts and mountains, it's time to think about making snowboarding and skiing vacations as safe and healthy as possible. When you've got family headed...
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Negotiating Family Airline Travel in the 21st Century
Here are 10 tips on what to bring to make family airline flights fly by Airline travel may be down this year, but there’s still the risk of H1N1 and the added airline expenses associated...
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How To Snag Quality Time With Your Doctor
Do you feel rushed by your doctor after waiting patiently in his waiting room? Here's how to make the most of your visit, and how to get attention after you've returned home.Do you feel rushed...
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Safety First For Our Kids
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children shares valuable safety tips for the holidays, and throughout the year.Just in time for the winter 2007-2008 holiday shopping season, the National...
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Are Your Healthy Habits Making You Sick?
Is too much of a good thing a bad thing? Read a doctor's advice.Is too much of a good thing a bad thing? Read a doctor's advice. As a society, we are constantly striving to lead healthier,...
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Back to School Tips
A doctor offers sound advice for parents on healthy lunches and playground safety. With the school season right around the corner, this is the perfect time to start preparing your elementary-school-aged...
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Healthy Flying: Yoga For Mid-Air Stress Reduction
Plane yoga? Be conscious of your body during air travel and keep comfortable while cramped in a seat high above the earth with these therapeutic exercise tips.We all know that statistically, air...
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Safety Tips for Back-To-School Sports Players
Do your kids play school sports? Read helpful tips from the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society in case of injuries.Thirty million children and teens are busy gearing up for the fall athletic...
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Swing Into Playground Safety
The CPSC shares tips on safety during National Playground Safety Week, with information that is valuable every day.Playgrounds may be the site of much fun and play, but playground safety is a serious...
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Keeping Allergies And Asthma in Check
Here are some medically proven allergy prevention tips, designed to help you identify and overcome travel situations likely to aggravate asthma or allergies, and cause problems that can ruin a vacation. Did...
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Swine Flu Prevention
Read a doctor's practical tips on preventing swine flu both at home and in the classroom. Here's what you need to know and do, without getting everyone hysterical.As kids gear up for...
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Is The Baby Sick? Should We Call The Doctor?
First time parents are nervous every time a new baby coughs, sniffles or sneezes. How do they know if they should be? Here are a doctor's useful tips and advice for making sure you know when...
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Safe Travels for Families with Peanut, Tree Nut, Egg and Dairy Allergies
I was visiting Disney World with my family when I happened upon the Divvies treats. My son, who has a severe Nut allergy was so excited that he found chocolate chip cookies and caramel...
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Breastfeeding Moms: Are You Deficient in Key Nutrients?
Keeping out of the sun is healthy for your skin, but is it healthy for your infants? New research finds that Vitamin D is essential for healthy lactation and healthy babies. Are breastfeeding...
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Pickpockets: Where To Find Them And How To Avoid Them
Thanks to the popular hotel review site, TripAdvisor, we have some fresh thoughts on how to avoid pickpockets, the bane of every traveler's existence. Well, some would say that airport security...
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Mother Nature’s Poisonous Plants
What to watch out for in the wilderness and how to cope if your child brushes up against a poisonous ivy, oak, sumac or other dangerous plant.Emily had just discovered the joys of running through...
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Tropical Climates Demand Medical Precautions
Tips on prevention and simple remedies if anyone in your family succumbs to common ailments while traveling in tropical climates with kids.When traveling with young children to any tropical climate...
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Tourism Industry Works To Protect Children’s Rights
Find out how ECPAT and UNICEF have been working internationally with the tourism industry to curb child sex tourism. When ECPAT...
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Travel and the Common Cold
Feed a cold and starve a fever? Or is it starve a cold and feed a fever? Read on to find out the best way to deal with that annoying cold.The traveler who laments, "Whenever our kids go away,...
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The Responsible Traveler
A Brief Guideline to the Health Issues and Cultural Codes of Traveling from the International Society of Travel Medicine. Whether traveling from state to state or across the ocean, cultural, hygienic,...
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Protecting Young Eyes
FTF's resident doctor explains how early eye protection measures can prevent eye and eyelid damage from occuring during a child's adult years.You're aware of the need to protect your child's...
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Travel Jitters: Coping With Real Concerns
Family Travel Forum's tips on traveling safe 'n' sound, plus securing your vacation investment in a changing world.Family Travel Forum's tips on traveling safe 'n' sound, plus securing...
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Doctor in the Casa?
Family Travel Forum provides a resource for health-related travel issues Becoming ill in a foreign country is one of the biggest fears faced by international travelers with children. Different...
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Bike Smart
Using the acronym b.i.k.e.s.m.a.r.t. with your kids will introduce them to the basic rules of bicycling safety. Using the term "bike smart," the Virginia...
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Avoiding Turista, Coping with Travelers’ Diarrhea
Studies presented at the annual International Society of Travel Medicine Conference offer new preventive measures for avoiding the most common travel illness.When you run a travel medicine clinic...
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Doc Holiday’s Hygiene Tips For Healthy Travel
After the Spring 2009 flu outbreak made travelers across the globe afraid to fly, FTF's resident doctor saw a need to share simple health tips to ease parents' worries.After the Spring 2009 flu...
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Medical Risks In Adventure Travel
Medical practitioners caution parents to watch out for the really common things that most often go wrong.Adventure travel is growing substantially, and the family travel sector of this market is...
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Skiing 101: Adult Novices Feel No Shame
A West Coast mom and an East Coast dad throw caution to the wind and become middle age novice skiers.One of the best things about having kids is that when they're younger, they make their parents...
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Travel Anxiety or Mummy Tummy?
What to do when your child has a tummy ache, from FTF's MD.Abdominal pain, or bellyache, is a common childhood complaint which extends to the teen years, with everything from flu, to school...
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Keeping Kids Healthy and Eating Nutritious Foods
Follow these suggestions for creating healthy eating habits at home and on the road.One thing that most parents have in common is the struggle to insure that their kids eat healthy foods. For many,...
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Safe Travels
For most of us, travel doesn't seem dangerous. In fact, it seems kind of glamorous. It's easy to be seduced by the idea of wandering the streets of Dubai, floating in the Dead Sea, or seeing the iconic...
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