Airplane travel for preterm

[JACK]

Is there any safe minimum weight/corrected gestational age for preterm babies to fly in airplanes? (Preterm with no chronic lung disease. )

Any references ?

[Stefan Johansson]

This is a common question among parents also in Sweden... and our answer is that noone really knows and that parents need to decide for themselves when they want to travel with their babies by plane. There are no Swedish guidelines but British guidelines published here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/93/6/528.extract

[JACK]

Thanks Stefan for the link....

That led me to further nice reading

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1746859/?tool=pubmed

http://www.earlyhumandevelopment.com/article/S0378-3782%2807%2900160-0/abstract

http://adc.bmj.com/content/94/8/621.abstract

http://adc.bmj.com/content/94/7/562.1.extract