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Living With a Child's Food Allergy: The Practical Day-to-Day
The diagnosis of a serious food allergy is one of those parental moments where the world reorganises itself in an afternoon. Suddenly every label matt...
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Food Allergy Tests in Children: What They Tell You and What They Don't
After a child has a food reaction — or even just suspected one — the natural next question is "what test will tell us?" The honest answer is more laye...
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Flat Head in Babies (Plagiocephaly): What to Do, and What Not to Worry About
The flat patch on a baby's head is one of the most common things parents ask about, and one of the things they get the most conflicting advice on. The...
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Flu in Young Children: How to Tell It from a Cold, and What Actually Helps
Flu is the illness most often misnamed in conversation — every bad cold tends to get called "the flu." Genuine influenza is a different beast, especia...
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Flat Feet in Children: When to Worry, When to Leave Alone
Flat feet are one of the most-marketed-to and least-treated conditions in childhood. The arch under your toddler's foot is supposed to be missing — it...
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First Period: What Your Daughter (and You) Need to Know
For all the time the puberty conversation gets, the first period itself often catches families off guard — sometimes at school, often at night, almost...
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Febrile Convulsions in Young Children: What They Are and What to Do
Watching a child have a febrile convulsion is one of the most frightening things a parent will experience. The child suddenly goes stiff, their eyes r...
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Managing Fever in Babies and Children: What to Do and When to Worry
The first time you see a high temperature on a thermometer in a small child, the instinct is alarm. Fever is one of the top reasons parents call NHS 1...
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Faltering Growth in Infants and Toddlers: What It Means and How It's Managed
The growth chart in the red book is one of the most anxiety-generating pages in early parenthood. A single weight that plots slightly lower than the p...
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Fainting in Children and Teenagers: Causes, Assessment and Management
Watching a child faint is frightening, especially the first time. They may go pale and sweaty with warning, or it may seem to come from nowhere. They...
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Epilepsy in Children: Types, Diagnosis, and Living Well
A first seizure in a child is one of the most frightening things a parent can witness. The combination of loss of consciousness, abnormal movements, a...
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Soiling in Children: Understanding Encopresis and How to Help
Soiling is one of the most distressing — and least talked-about — problems in childhood. Parents are embarrassed. Children are deeply ashamed. Teacher...
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Ear Infections in Babies and Toddlers: Treatment and When Antibiotics Help
Few illnesses send parents to the GP faster than a screaming, feverish toddler clutching one ear. And few have generated as much rethinking in primary...
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Ear Infections in Young Children: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
A baby tugging at one ear, fever climbing, sleep wrecked, and a parent pacing the bedroom at 2 a.m. — this is one of the most familiar scenes in early...
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Ear Infections in Babies and Toddlers: Signs and Treatment
Ear infections are one of the most common reasons parents end up at the GP with a young child, and one of the most misjudged at home. The classic stor...
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Down Syndrome: Diagnosis, Development and What to Expect
A diagnosis of Down syndrome — at the 12-week scan, at birth, or in early infancy — usually arrives as a sudden flood of information at exactly the mo...
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Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Babies and Toddlers: What to Do
A first stomach bug in a baby is genuinely alarming — projectile vomit, watery green stools, a tiny person who suddenly seems floppy and miserable. Mo...
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Type 1 Diabetes in Children: Recognising the Signs and Life After Diagnosis
A previously dry 5-year-old starts wetting the bed. He's drinking from the tap, complaining of being tired after school, and his face looks thinner th...
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Type 1 Diabetes in Young Children: Early Signs and What Diagnosis Means
Type 1 diabetes is uncommon in very young children but it does happen, sometimes in babies under one. The early signs are easy to read as something el...
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Dental Emergencies in Children: What to Do and When to Act
A child runs across the playground, trips, and plants their face on the concrete. Within 30 seconds you're looking at a bloody mouth, a panicked toddl...
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