Tips for having good holiday health travel habits

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Christmas is close astir the corner, and radical are checking disconnected their vacation list.

"Holidays are a clip for america to truly walk clip with family," said Dr. Mitul Patel, a pediatrician with Kaiser Permanente successful Fresno. "But determination is added accent due to the fact that of each the other tasks involved."

As you get acceptable for your vacation trips and gatherings, determination are immoderate things doctors privation you to support successful mind.

"Making definite our kids person their due wellness checks, whether that's physicals, but particularly their vaccinations," said Dr. Patel. "The flu is going to beryllium a beauteous terrible flu."

According to the CDC, flu enactment is expanding nationally, with wellness experts seeing a spike successful cases among children and young adults.

Doctors are particularly watching a caller variant of the flu, known arsenic Subclade K.

"What we're each expecting to hap is that there's going to beryllium this immense highest that comes retired beauteous quickly," said Dr. Patel. "Unfortunately, with the holidays coming, it's going to beryllium astir the vacation season. So close aft Christmas, close aft New Year's."

Whether your plans support you adjacent to location oregon retired of town, Dr. Patel stresses making definite you're up to day connected your vaccines, whether it's flu, COVID, oregon adjacent the measles.

"If you're traveling internationally oregon retired of state, we are, unfortunately, seeing pockets of measles popping up a lot," said Dr. Patel.

For those who person planned agelong trips with aerial travel, Dr. Patel suggests packing manus wipes, other medicine and adjacent a spare acceptable of apparel successful that carry-on.

"Involving your kids successful your planning," said Dr. Patel. "Let them assistance you prime retired the snacks they want, the games they privation to play and immoderate stuffed animals they privation to take."

Taking the other clip and steps to hole tin marque the vacation question little turbulent and chaotic.

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