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Rome (Agenzia Fides) – During the summertime, there are a growing number people that decide to take family trips for leisure or work, sometimes traveling with newborn babies. However, doing so increases the risk of the being infected with a disease or of importing diseases, especially infectious, unknown, or rare ones, into our country.
In the brochure distributed by the “Bambino Gesu” Children’s Hospital, which is a useful tool for doctors and families alike, there is a list of the potential health risks involved in traveling, the geographic locations with the highest risks, and the precautions that should be taken in traveling to far-off countries. The issues treated in the guide are: vaccinations, what to take in the suitcase, the environmental risks, food and drink, and the contraindications of international traveling.
As an example, we will report on what the guide says a traveler should include in packing his suitcase: bandages (for large and small wounds), cotton, syringes, safety pins, thermometer, disinfectant products, painkillers, fever reducer, anti-inflammatory medicine, antihistamine ointments/cortisone cream for insect bites and/or sunburn; motion-sickness medicines for the car, plain, sea; antibacterial cream for skin abrasions; multi-use antibiotics; therapeutic salts; chloroquine; pirimetamine+sulfametopirazine. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 25/7/2008)
