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Impetigo in Children: Recognising and Treating This Common Skin Infection
Most parents do not need a long article on impetigo — they need a clear answer about which cream, how long, and when their child can go back to nurser...
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Joint Hypermobility in Children: What It Means and When It Matters
The kid who can put both palms flat on the floor without bending her knees, or bend her thumb back to her forearm, is a familiar party trick in any cl...
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Hydrocele in Baby Boys: What It Is and When It Resolves
You're changing your son's diaper and notice one side of his scrotum looks bigger than the other — soft, smooth, a bit shiny. Your first thought is so...
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Hives (Urticaria) in Children: What It Is and What to Watch For
A child who's been fine all day breaks out in raised, blotchy, intensely itchy patches that look alarming and seem to migrate around the body over hou...
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Strawberry Marks (Infantile Haemangiomas): What They Are and What to Expect
A red, slightly raised mark appears on a four-week-old baby. It wasn't there at birth, or barely was. It grows visibly week to week. Most parents in t...
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Hip Dysplasia in Babies: Screening, Diagnosis, and the Pavlik Harness
The hip examination at the newborn check is one of the more skilled bits of the routine postnatal review. It looks like a quick wiggle of the legs, bu...
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The Newborn Blood Spot (Heel Prick) Test: What's Tested and Why
At about day five, a midwife sits down with a small card, pricks the side of your baby's heel, and presses out a few drops of blood. The card goes off...
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Heat Rash in Babies: What It Is and What It's Telling You
Heat rash turns up reliably in two situations: the first warm weekend of British summer, when nobody has yet recalibrated what the baby should actuall...
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Hearing Loss in Children: Diagnosis, Types and Support
A referral from the newborn hearing screen, a health visitor flagging late speech, a teacher noticing a child who keeps mishearing — that's usually ho...
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Head Lice in Children: How to Treat Them Effectively
Head lice reliably generate parental anxiety out of proportion to the actual medical significance of the infestation — they are uncomfortable and inco...
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Hay Fever in Children: Symptoms, Treatment, and Managing the Pollen Season
Hay fever has a reputation as a minor nuisance, but for children with moderate to severe symptoms during exam season — which coincides almost exactly...
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Hand Hygiene for Families with Babies and Young Children
Hand hygiene is one of the least dramatic and most evidence-based health behaviours available to families with young children. The evidence from publi...
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Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Young Children: Symptoms and Management
Hand, foot and mouth disease is one of those childhood illnesses that parents often encounter for the first time when their child comes home from nurs...
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Baby Gut Health: Microbiome Development and the Role of Probiotics
Interest in the infant microbiome has grown enormously in the past decade, as research has revealed that the gut bacteria established in the first yea...
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Growing Pains in Children: What They Are and What They Are Not
The five-year-old who wakes crying at 10pm with aching legs, who is fine by morning and entirely normal the next day, is a very familiar presentation...
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Glue Ear in Children: Causes, Hearing Impact, and When Grommets Help
Glue ear is one of those conditions that is very common, often missed, and capable of causing real difficulty during a critical window for language de...
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Gastroenteritis in Young Children: Management and When to Seek Help
Gastroenteritis is distressing to witness in young children and exhausting for parents managing the repeated vomiting and loose stools that characteri...
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Functional Abdominal Pain in Children: When Tummy Aches Are Real But Not Explained by Disease
Few things are more exhausting for families than a child with persistent stomach aches that no test can explain. The child is clearly in pain. The pai...
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Foreskin Care in Boys: Leave It Alone (and What Counts as Different)
The foreskin is one of those areas where well-meaning advice has historically caused harm. Generations of parents — and some health professionals — we...
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Food Poisoning in Under-5s: How to Tell, How to Treat, When to Worry
A vomiting toddler in pyjamas at 2am is one of the more recognisable scenes of early parenthood. Most of the time it's gastroenteritis — viral or food...
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