21 Travel Safety Tips for Babies and Young Children

Helping you have a fun time whilst keeping it safe with some good sense child safety travel tips

More people are travelling with children and babies than ever before. As part of what's become our Child Safety Season we've harvested this list of 21 travel safety tips for babies and young children.

The internet is awash with lists like this and we're certain you have your own ideas that are not included here. Please do drop us a comment to share your own thoughts and suggestions with others so that they can benefit from your ideas.

1. Take a medical kit
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2. Carry some over the counter antihistamines in your medical kit.
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3. Get an emergency ID wristband for children
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4. Get a GP appointment 10 weeks before travelling and ask about immunizations
5. Do a risk assessment of the room in which you'll stay
6. Consider taking reins for young or small children
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7. Use a permanent pen to write your mobile number on their wrist
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8. Allocate one adult responsible per child if possible
9. Wear safety vests on boat trips & excursions
10. Use bottled or filtered water to hydrate and teeth brushing
11. Take out adequate travel insurance for the destination you're going to
12. Take things slower if this is your first trip with little ones
13. If your child has special needs get specific tips from parents that have children with similar conditions
14. Take insect repellent
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15. Check the World Health Organisation's website for malaria endemic countries
16. Designate a meeting point at each place you visit in case anyone is separated
17. Choose clothes made from natural fibres to help stop or reduce sweat rash and prickly heat
18. Warn children about drinking from taps in foreign countries
19. Avoid buffet style food arrangements, which are more likely be laden with bacteria
20. Give children a straw if drinking from a bottles and cans or, clean the bottle / can first
21. Take a mosquito net to cover baby buggies, prams and cots.
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