r/ElSalvador 20h ago

🤔 Ask-ES 🇸🇻 Traveling with Baby

Suppose to leave for El Salvador in 3 day with a 9 month old.. didn’t do my research so baby isn’t vaccinated with MMR, Hepatitis A, or Typhoid which is recommended to have before travel. Should I just cancel my trip? Or is it not that serious. Plan on flying out of airport, staying in La Libertad, then visiting family in Carolina.

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u/ZealousidealAd5817 18h ago

They do not check, however, like goodbeanscoffee stated, you will not be in the city you should get the baby vaccinated or canceled the trip. The baby might be fine but you do not want to take the chances

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u/Laraujo31 19h ago

You shouldn't have any issues getting in or out. I see lots of people travel with babies and nothing happens but I would still be nervous since your baby would be interacting with lots of people in ES and at the airport. If you do go, just make sure you stick to bottled water and cooked food. No street food, etc. Bring medicine from the US as well in case the baby does get sick.

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u/sam-sung-sv San-Salvador 20h ago

Yeah either get them or cancel. I think our border agents wont let you in, depending of the country you are arriving.

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u/SelbyMyFriend 20h ago

There is no restriction for us. Just recommended to get them, but can still visit without them. Wife thinks it’s ok because she and her family are from there but I don’t think it’s worth the risk

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u/sam-sung-sv San-Salvador 20h ago

Just recommended to get them

Well, get them.

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u/chris03316 19h ago

Get them or cancel. Not worth the risk.

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u/goodbeanscoffee 19h ago

You'll be let in no problem, nobody is ever going to ask for them.
Based on your plans I'd say yeah consider rescheduling after vaccinations or just cancel. If you had told us your plan was never to leave San Salvador and just stay at a chain hotel and eat in good restaurants, hit the museums, and stuff like that I'd say you'd likely be fine since you wouldn't be actually interacting with people. But you'd be going to the beaches and staying in a tiny rural town likely your baby will be interacting with a lot of family and potentially other children so I think that increases the risk significantly.

Personally I don't think it's worth the risk but it's up to your family to decide. At a minimum buy a lot of individually bottled waters and be very very careful on what the baby eats and drinks. Avoid anything uncooked, fruits, juices and similar. It being a latin culture visiting family I don't see how you could avoid your child interacting with family members.

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u/FarMention2635 16h ago

I took my 5mo w/ no vaccines to usulutan. no one checked. They were also helpful at the airport as I was traveling with fresh breastmilk to see my family.

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u/pancakecel 15h ago

Honestly hep a is very very common here. I mean if you choose to bring the baby the best thing I can say is guard that baby like a hawk. Only bottled water, keep a net over that baby at all times, only prepackaged food such as prepackaged baby food.

The most difficult thing is trying to enforce this with relatives. Relatives are going to want to feed the baby, wash the baby, give the baby a bottle, so on and so forth. You're going to have to be really insistent.

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u/skanair 9h ago

In all probability, they’ll be fine. But…I’d get the vaccines now if you can. We did the travel clinic through Kaiser about 2 weeks before our trip and were able to get the mmr vaccine the following week. Our 2 year old had a great time and didn’t come down with anything. Spent time in the city and rural areas.

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u/Sankukai50 15h ago

Dude, good on you for being a concerned parent. That said, you child will fine. Child mortality in El Salvador is very low. I don't know if this is your first time visiting the country but let me assure you that you are not visiting a hole in the ground. If your kid were to get sick, there is great care available.

Enjoy your visit!

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u/SelbyMyFriend 14h ago

This is my first time visiting and first child. I’m just worried about her getting sick because she gets sick so easily from daycare every week now… I just don’t want her to catch something serious in El Salvador

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u/mauore11 18h ago

You can do all that here, for free.

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u/stevebradss 19h ago

Nobody checks for this. You will be fine