What Should a Family with Children Have in Their Summer Suitcase?

Families with children experience the uneasiness of forgetting things at home while preparing holiday suitcases. Although they bring their own solutions to this situation with experience over time, it is useful to make a small reminder. Yeditepe University Koşuyolu Hospital Pediatrics Specialist Dr. Fatma Tülin Şimşek listed what should be in the suitcase during summer holidays for families with children…

Things that can be useful for holiday suitcases…

• At least 4 sets of thin cotton clothes should be put on. Lots of half-sleeves, shorts, T-shirts,
• Cotton pajamas to wear when sleeping at night,
• Children's own pillow,
• Nets for insect bites and mosquitos at night,
• Turtlenecks, armbands, swimsuits, and bikinis for holidays with a pool and sea (at least 2 pairs so as not to stay in a wet swimsuit.)
• In order to protect from the sun, a hat that covers the neck and UV A and UV B-protected sunglasses,
• 50-factor sunscreen for children under 1-year-old or 30-factor sunscreen for brunettes and older children, with mineral filters, specially made for children,
• Mosquito nets against mosquito bites and herbal lotions specially made for children to prevent mosquito bites.

Medicines that will be useful to have in your holiday suitcase

• Paracetamol or ibuprofen group painkiller, fever-reducing syrup that your doctor recommends has never been opened,
• Creams against falling/ bumps,
• Prebiotic chassis with doctor's recommendation in case of diarrhea, 
• Anti-itch gels for use in itchy allergic reactions and a few of the various antihistamine drugs at the dose recommended by your doctor,
• Creams that can be used for sunburn.