Travelling with kids not only gives them a great opportunity to learn and experience new things, but it also creates so many great memories that will stay with them for life.
Unfortunately though it is easy for kids to get sick while travelling, whether it be a mild form of car or plane motion sickness, to full blown bugs picked up in the local country.
Here’s a few tips to try to minimise the disturbance to your holiday through sickness:
- Water and food hygiene is critical to ensure nasty bugs do not ruin your holiday. Always take care, drink bottled water if you are unsure and use common sense with foods you buy. Also use an antibacterial sprayto kill germs in toilets, on table tops, in public transport, anywhere.
PSI Bands - great for motion sickness
- For motion sickness, try the PSI bands – they are fantastic drug free acupressure wrist bands perfect for the relief of nausea and they are safe for children
- Also always keep Chuckies Travel Sickness Bags in your bag in case nausea hits
- Ensure you have a letter from your doctor if you are carrying prescriptions, epipens or other medications
- Always have travel insurance suitable for your destination
- If travelling overseas or to a remote location, check what medical facilities are available, whether that is at the hotel, or local hospital or medical centre. You do not want to be looking for this information when your child is sick. Always pack a comprehensive medical kit appropriate to your destination.
- Check immunisations required, as for very young children certain destinations will not be suitable.
- If travelling overseas and to regional or remote locations, check in advance what flights are available (keep a print out in your luggage) back to a major city or your home, in the case of emergency this information could be critical.
- Chuckies Travel Sickness Bags
We would love to hear your experiences of how you overcame sickness when travelling, and some tips for others. We have 1 pack of 3 Chuckies to give away (6 in total) for the first 6 comments below.
Note Chuckies giveaway is for Australian residents only, please provide comments of around 20-40 words approx. (or more if you have some great tips for others!)
I keep a mini medical kit plus neurogenic / panadol in my handbag. The two times my lad has been crook on holidays it has hit when we couldn’t get to our luggage. In 15min he went from happy camper to a very hot temp, thanks to the drugs he was back to happy camper another 15min later. Also, my son can get a bit ‘bound up’ eating strange holiday food, so a mild childrens laxative in the medical kit has been handy too.
I’ve found that stopping for plenty of rest breaks and distractions such as singing help.
Fantastic post. Traveling with little ones can be daunting, but preparation is the key!
Best wishes, Alex
I play games which encourage us all to look out the front windscreen, avoiding looking down at all expense. Weather permitting, we have the windows down, these things really seem to help.
Scrunch up extra clothes in zip lock bags and secure with elastic bands if short on space. Really handy for a solution for the soiled clothes. Also kept a couple of presents wrapped up which helped to take their mind of feeling ill on a plane. Plenty of wet wipes and make friends with the stewards early on!
Take plenty of spare clothes when travelling and don’t forget a set for mum and dad. Having been covered from top to toe in kiddy vomit on a flight from Sydney to Hong Kong with another 18 hours of travel to go I will never again be caught short!
Limit the pre flight greasy food and try and get the in-flight meal first to rid it of chocolate and other sweet treats
Hi! I keep a supply of ginger tablets for my oldest boy. We have never had a problem since he started taking them…