Assume that all local water supplies, and ice made from these supplies, are unsafe to drink or to use while brushing your teeth. Make sure all milk products have been boiled or pasteurized. Mild to moderate cases of traveler's diarrhea can be treated with fluid replacement therapy and easily digested foods such as rice, bananas, and dry toast or crackers. Breast-fed infants should continue to be allowed to nurse on demand. Disease carriers may pose special risks to kids Vector-borne diseases are caused by an organism and a carrier.
Children can get malaria by being bitten by a female mosquito carrying the malaria organism.
Children are at higher risk simply because they are less concerned with protection and more often exposed to mosquitoes. Preventive malaria medications can be discussed with your travel medicine specialist, physician, or pediatrician. Schistosomiasis is caused by a parasite that uses a freshwater snail as a host to complete its life cycle. The free-swimming parasite larvae exit the snail and can enter a person's body through unbroken skin or infested drinking water. Even standing in freshwater lakes should be avoided.