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Anonymous wrote:I’m not canceling an overseas trip to visit family we planned 6 months ago because my daughter has a cold. Please only respond with medicine recs.
-OP

You absolutely can and should postpone your trip. Your poor child will be absolutely miserable on an overseas flight. And she might actually pop her eardrum. I feel bad for her. This is also a good lesson on why you shouldn’t take trips like this over winter break. Too much risk for illness at this time of year. Save it for summer.

everyone is so extreme on here. Have you never traveled, ever, with a cold? It’s not the flu. She may have some ear pain, but truly she will survive. Even if there is a minuscule chance her eardrum could burst which since this isn’t an ear infection, I doubt is likely - pediatricians only worry about this if you have an ACTIVE ear infection. And worst, worst case scenario her ear drum does burst, it’s very painful in that moment and then she will feel much better anyway. And it will heal. Obviously that all sounds horrible but you can’t make all your life decisions on the very unlikely scenarios or we would all just stay home always. M it’s a cold. I feel like people on here act like they never leave the house with a stuffy nose. This is an overseas trip to visit family, I would absolutely bring a preteen with a stuffy nose!

Have fun op! Hope she kicks it soon.