Practical travel tips for family vacations
Summer, sun, beach and sea – with a few travel tips you and your family can enjoy your vacation relaxed. Whether eating, swimming or protecting yourself from insects – we have summarized the most important travel tips for you here for more safety.
Travel tips for more safety at a glance
Especially when you go on vacation with your whole family in the summer, something unforeseen often happens. Whether fever , diarrhea or insect bites – there are some travel tips with which you can protect yourself and your family. In addition to the classic travel diseases, serious diseases such as hepatitis , malaria or typhoid can also occur in risk areas.
In any case, find out early on whether you need the appropriate travel vaccinations, for example. In the following article we tell you why you should get vaccinated:
Travel Tip #1: Be careful when eating
- Not allowed: water from the tap, ice cubes, soft ice, loose ice cream, salads, fruit that has not been peeled and food that is kept warm, unfamiliar spices.
Better: hot and thoroughly freshly cooked food, boiling water or carbonated mineral water – also for brushing your teeth, boiling milk before drinking, bottled water or juice are usually harmless. Rule of thumb: “Cook it, peel it or leave it!”
Travel Tip #2: Beware of the heat and sun
- Headgear is essential for children
- Sunscreen with a high sun protection factor and preferably waterproof for your child
- If possible, avoid air conditioning, as your child usually does not cope with the temperature fluctuations so well and catches cold so easily
- Make sure that your child drinks enough – more than at home – and does not threaten to dehydrate. The need for liquid increases when it is hot.
Find out in the following articles how best to protect your offspring from the sun.
Travel tip #3: Be careful when swimming
- Especially in tropical countries there are some bodies of water in which larvae swim, so you and your child should avoid them. These can cause eye, ear, and intestinal infections.
- You can swim where there are lifeguards. Even chlorinated swimming pools are not dangerous. You should not let your child go into the sea unobserved, as they cannot yet assess the currents on their own. To prevent your child from getting cold, do not let them stay in the water for more than 15-30 minutes.
- You should also avoid that your child drinks sea or swimming pool water.
- Possibly bathing shoes should be worn in the sea due to corals.
- When the sun is strong, put a t-shirt on your child for the first few days at the beach to protect them from sunburn .
Travel tip #4: Beware of ticks
- Wear long clothes when hiking in the forest
- Use insect repellent sprays, they also deter ticks
- Thoroughly check your body for ticks after a walk!
- Possibly get vaccinated in advance if it is a risk area
Find out everything about the dangerous little parasites in our special “Ticks”: