Child and Family Travel Clinic

Traveling to different elements of the world can increase the chance for infectious ailments, like malaria and typhoid. However, you may take steps forward of time to scale back this danger. At our journey clinic for households, you will get vaccinations  together with sensible ideas that may assist your loved ones keep away from getting sick.

Board-certified pediatric infectious illness docs use the most recent proof to tailor steerage to your youngster’s wants. Our crew additionally contains physicians with coaching in adolescent and grownup journey drugs, enabling us to care on your entire household.

Who Should Visit the Child and Family Travel Clinic?

International journey can expose your youngster and household to ailments that aren’t frequent within the U.S. Visiting our journey clinic helps you obtain applicable vaccinations, drugs and security recommendation.

Our journey clinic for households sees youngsters in addition to total households (dad and mom and youngsters) for vaccinations and schooling. For adults-only care, go to our journey well being companies.

Come see us just a few weeks earlier than your journey when you’re:

• Visiting international locations with a excessive danger for infectious ailments, similar to India, Brazil, Ghana, or different elements of Africa, Central and South America, Asia, or the Middle East
• Traveling for volunteer work, adoption or long-term stays overseas
• Preparing for journeys involving rural settings or restricted entry to medical care
• In want of required vaccines, similar to yellow fever, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, Chikungunya or meningitis
• Concerned about malaria prevention, foodborne sickness or water security
• Traveling with younger youngsters, adolescents or people with continual medical circumstances

We additionally see youngsters born outdoors the U.S. who’re returning to their nation of origin for the primary time or after a few years.

Before You Travel: Vaccinations for Infectious Diseases

Whether your youngster is getting ready for a visit, you’re visiting household, otherwise you’re occurring a household trip, we may help.

You might profit from journey vaccinations to guard in opposition to:

Our Services: Infectious Disease Prevention for Travelers

Our journey clinic companies concentrate on prevention and mirror the most recent tips. Offerings embody: 

• Itinerary assessment: Recommendations are based mostly on the place you’re going, how lengthy you’ll be there and what you’ll be doing.
• Country-specific steerage: You obtain data on well being dangers within the nation you might be visiting.
• Disease prevention methods: We talk about methods to decrease the chance of travel-related diseases, together with these unfold by meals, water, or bugs.
• Immunization assessment: Infectious illness specialists test your youngster’s vaccine historical past and suggest any catch-up or destination-specific pictures.
• Travel vaccinations: Our crew offers required and advisable pictures your youngster or household might have.
• Documentation: We share a abstract of vaccines and drugs along with your youngster’s major care supplier through our digital well being report.