PEDIATRICS Vol. 76 No. 6 December 1985, pp. 1018
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Flying, Peanuts, and Crying Babies

ELISABETH M. STAFFORD MC, USA1

1 Department of Pediatrics, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX 79920-5001

To the Editor.—

Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics for injury prevention state that "physicians caring for children should counsel parents in age-appropriate, season-appropriate, locality-appropriate strategies which reduce common serious injuries".1 In keeping with this philosophy, many pediatricians educate parents about foods that may be unsafe for their child at a given age. Yet, there seems to be a substantial number of caretakers whom we obviously have not reached, judging by my observations of travelers feeding peanuts to toddlers on airplanes.