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A recent American study analyzed the ‘diseases of travelers’ most frequently related to younger and found that the health problems suffered by children are often different from those affecting adults after international protests. The results of this work published out in the latest edition of the journal Pediatrics.

As noted study leader Dr. Stefan Hagmann, Bronx New York Hospital-Lebanon (United States), one of the main issues is that children tend to travel less prepared than their elders. It is worth mentioning that this work was based on nearly 1,600 children from 19 countries who had traveled to 218 different destinations.

Other outstanding features is that small family often require medical care to return before the adults, and are usually admitted because of their condition or undergoing treatment for longer.

The map of traveler’s diseases in children is then as follows: 28 percent of children’s issues the return match with diarrhea, 25 percent, to skin problems, 23 percent to fevers, and a 11 percent to respiratory disorders, ie, that these four disorders for 86 percent of the total.

By region, skin rashes and other skin conditions occur more in cases of children returning from holidays in Latin America, such gastrointestinal problems have been observed mostly after mobilizations to the Middle East and North Africa, while regions Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa tend to cause more fevers in children who visit them.

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