Article: KIDS AND BUG REPELLENT.(Home Front)

Byline: Jane Brody

During the summer, with youngsters spending more of their waking hours out of doors often skimpily attired, biting insects are finding easy targets for the blood they need to reproduce.

Products abound to protect children from such critters as gnats, mosquitoes, biting flies, chiggers and ticks, but not all are equally safe or effective.

In the current issue of Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr. Adelaide A. Hebert, a professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and Dr. Soni Carlton, an intern at the university's Galveston branch, discuss these products and the safest ways to use ...

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