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Infant air travel, bronchiolitis, and the environment
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Editor,—Probably like most doctors looking after children, we feel uneasy when asked whether it would “be alright” to take small children and infants on plane journeys for holidays. Controversy continues as to whether flying might be harmful for infants,1-4 and it is questionable whether infants benefit from weekend breaks or long distance holidays in search of better weather. However, we suspect that the air travelling population will get increasingly younger and we will be asked more frequently. As long as solid data about the safety of …