Keeping Your Kids Healthy This Summer

If you are planning to travel to another country with your kids, be familiar with the risks of travel to help them stay safe and healthy. Children who travel to areas where malaria or other diseases are a risk should get vaccinated, just like their parents. According to the CDC, children should complete their routine childhood vaccines before traveling overseas. Some travel vaccines cannot be given to very young children and traveling to some areas may require no vaccinations at all, so it's important to check with your child's pediatrician as early as possible before travel. According to the CDC, vaccinations should be scheduled at least two weeks before travel because it takes roughly two weeks for vaccine immunity to develop.