Our family has taken three trips to Walt Disney World and are planning a fourth trip for the fall of this year.\u00a0 Before each trip we pray for good health, and we pack medicines for common ailments just in case.<\/p>\n
The best piece of health advice I can give is to be prepared.\u00a0 Make sure you carry headache medicine\/fever reducer, stomach medicine, and band-aids with you at all times.\u00a0 For children, the chewable or melt-away pain and fever reducers are handy to have on the go.\u00a0 I keep a Ziploc bag with medicine in my fanny pack and keep a larger supply of medicine (just in case) in our hotel room.\u00a0 If you forget something, there is a first-aid station in each park with common over-the-counter medications available.<\/p>\n
Be careful before your trip and try to minimize your family\u2019s exposure to sickness.\u00a0 The week before our trip, I think twice about allowing my boys to play with a friend who has a bad cough or runny nose.<\/p>\n
On our second visit to WDW, we spent one night on the road before arriving.\u00a0 I tucked the boys into bed at the Comfort Inn and thirty minutes later, my six-year-old was in the bathroom vomiting.\u00a0 We prayed that his sickness was nothing\u2014hopefully just the excitement of the trip.\u00a0 The next morning he seemed fine.\u00a0 We made sure he ate bland foods that day, and he had no more problems.\u00a0 Our prayers were answered, and we had a great trip!\u00a0 From that experience, I learned don\u2019t panic<\/em> and pray<\/em>.<\/p>\n Our third trip turned out to be more eventful in the sickness department.\u00a0 On day 5 of our 8-day vacation, my younger son, then six, woke up with a high fever.\u00a0 (What is it about being six?)\u00a0 My husband and I were not sure what to do.\u00a0 Should we take him to a walk-in clinic?\u00a0 Should we keep him in bed all day?\u00a0 It was the middle of our trip.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t ready to go home but wanted what was best for our boy.<\/p>\n We calmed ourselves down are started being systematic in trying to figure out what was wrong.\u00a0 We started with a dose of Children\u2019s Motrin.\u00a0 We knew he was overly tired because we had gone long and hard our first days at WDW.\u00a0 (As parents, we were kicking ourselves for allowing that to have happened.)\u00a0 We reviewed what he had eaten\u2014nothing unusual.\u00a0 We questioned him about other symptoms and looked at his throat\u2014nothing (but this is a good reason to always pack a flashlight).\u00a0 We talked about one parent taking the older boy to the park and the other parent staying with the sick child.\u00a0 However, our sick one begged and begged to be allowed to go.\u00a0 We were going to his favorite park, Animal Kingdom, on that day.<\/p>\n After about an hour, his fever had reacted well to the medicine, and he still showed no other symptoms.\u00a0 We looked up the phone number of the nearest clinic, packed up the children\u2019s Motrin and Tylenol in order to alternate doses, and decided to drive to the park in case we needed to leave quickly.\u00a0 Upon arrival at AK, we rented a wheel chair.\u00a0 Our son was slightly embarrassed by this, but he knew he would tire out too quickly on his feet.\u00a0 He was too tall to fit in a stroller, and the wheel chair was a less expensive rental.\u00a0 Another bonus to the wheel chair was that his brother could ride with him whenever he became tired.\u00a0 They could fit comfortably side by side.<\/p>\n We prayed and prayed for healing for him and wisdom for us.\u00a0 As it turned out, our sick one ran a low fever most of the day.\u00a0 We alternated his medicine every four to five hours.\u00a0 Since his fever never increased and no other symptoms emerged, we did not take him to the doctor.\u00a0 Thankfully, by the evening his fever was gone.\u00a0 We ended up renting a wheel chair our next two days in the park because we didn\u2019t want to tire out our six-year-old again.<\/p>\n It is hard to know what to do when someone becomes ill on vacation.\u00a0 I am grateful to God that neither of our incidents turned out to be serious. With each experience we learned something.\u00a0 I hope that no one in your party comes down with anything on your vacation, but if they do, maybe our experiences can help you.\u00a0 Just remember to pray, pack medicine, pack a flashlight, don\u2019t wear yourselves or your children out, look up a local walk-in clinic, rent a wheel chair, keep praying, but don\u2019t panic.<\/p>\n Our family has taken three trips to Walt Disney World and are planning a fourth trip for the fall of this year.\u00a0 Before each trip we pray for good health, and we pack medicines for common ailments just in case. 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