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Best Places to Visit During the Holiday Season for Kids

Holiday bring a lot of excitement for kids. They want to have a break from the routine life. Visiting their favorite destination is a good option but you should try new places as well. kids love entertainment parks, safari park and other such places, which seems challenging and exciting. Here are some places, where you can plan your visit for next holiday.

Costa Rica

The place is known to have exotic wildlife, particularly sloth and monkeys. Kids will enjoy the beaches and swimming under the waterfalls. Everyone loves zip lining and kayaking. “Safari floats”, a rapid river ride will be the highlight of this trip.

Photo by Anne Johnson from Pexels

The Black Hills

This place in South Dakota is known for the excitement it offers to its visitors, particular kids. They enjoy the longest wind cave of the world here. Horseback riding and wildlife watching are also loved by children. There is a wildlife loop road, where you can see deer, bison, mountain goats and elk roaming around. Reptile garden is also fascinating for kids.

Yellowstone National Park

An exciting place for the kids. If your kids have not been there, make sure they visit the park before they grow up. The most attractive features for kids include hot springs, mud spots and shoot steam, which goes to the height of 185 feet. Multicolored hot springs are loved by the kids. As it’s a wildlife park, kids can experience to see bison, elk even bear and wolf roaming around.

Cayman Islands

If your kids enjoy swimming and love sea life, this island is the best place to visit. The water around the island is very clear for swimming and you can see hundreds of stingrays in it. Children can feed these stingrays and enjoy swimming with these creatures.

Visiting a new place is always exciting, but make sure that your get enough information about the place and make bookings in advance.

Don’t ignore minor wounds

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PT editorial cartoon, January 2, 2015

For the New Year’s Eve Revelers who learned the hard way, this is for you:

Do not take for granted small wounds or scratch you incurred from an accidental firecracker and fireworks explosion. Innocent looking wounds can cause tetanus infection.

Clostridium tetani, is an acute bacterial disease causing rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles can easily enter the body even through a small scratch on the skin.

The bacteria is usually present in soil that has not been exposed to sunlight and in manures of horse, cow and carabao.

Presence of said bacteria is found in patients with firecracker or fireworks-related wound or injuries.

Previous studies revealed that horse manure is being used as expander by fireworks and firecracker manufacturer.

The incubation period of tetanus could be as short as one day to usually five to 21 days. But there is the so-called delayed setting of infection. These are wound that were not treated and have already healed.

Tetanus infection is often fatal. About 95 to 99 percent of the patients died from its complications. But recovery rate is also high if the infection is treated immediately.

Patients are given anti-tetanus immunoglobulin and tetanus toxoid vaccines as treatment.

Take note of the following signs and symptoms if you do have these innocent looking wounds.

Stiffness of the jaw muscles
Severe muscle spasms
Difficulty in breathing and swallowing.

If you worry that you might have the infection, seek medical help immediately. Do not self-medicate.

Source of information: phone interview with Dr. Franklin Diza, of the DOH. 
Inage credit: courierpostonline.com

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Today’s holidaymakers have never had it so good. Yes – the cost of living has gone up, the Euro is at crisis point and many of us can barely afford the taxi to the airport, let alone a week-long trip. But somehow we always manage to cobble together just enough to see us through, and when you reach your final destination, you know it’s certainly money well spent.

Thanks to the huge array of package holidays, weekend getaways, city breaks, beach weeks and low-cost scheduled flights available, there is a tantalising choice of destinations that can suit virtually every taste and budget. From Kos to Croatia, Malta to Morocco; city to coast and lake to mountain, there are thousands upon thousands of different options available to appeal to holidaymakers from all walks of life.

For those who like stress-free trips where everything is arranged, package holidays are usually the best option. Fly away safe in the knowledge that your flights, accommodation and local transfers are all taken care of, and you’ll also get a locally-based representative to help you during your stay. One such package holiday operator is Thomas Cook, a UK-based holiday giant that’s been in the business for decades. You can find Thomas Cook holidays online, making it easy to whittle down the options and compare prices, or pop into a high street branch to discuss your needs face-to-face.

For those who like to go their own way, you’ll find a seemingly endless choice of flights from dozens of UK airports, travelling here, there and everywhere. Take your pick. A weekend in Rome? A fortnight in the Caribbean? A cheap jaunt to the Spanish coast? The only problem you’ll have is deciding where to go.

It’s all there for the taking – it’s just a matter of finding your favourite.