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Dehydration in Children: Signs, Causes, and When It Becomes Serious
A child throws up twice in the morning, refuses lunch, and goes quiet on the sofa. Most of the time this is a 24-hour stomach bug that resolves with p...
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Delayed Puberty: When Puberty Hasn't Started When Expected
Being two years behind your friends in physical development, in the years when peer comparison is at its most brutal, is genuinely hard. Most teenager...
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Dehydration in Babies and Toddlers: Signs, Treatment, and Prevention
A stomach bug runs through a nursery, and within 48 hours half the babies in the room are home with their parents. What surprises most first-time pare...
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Cow's Milk Protein Allergy in Babies: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Management
Cow's milk protein allergy is one of the most common diagnoses in the first year of life, and it is also one of the most commonly missed or delayed —...
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Cystic Fibrosis in Children: Diagnosis, Treatment and Daily Life
Cystic fibrosis has changed more in the past decade than in the previous fifty years combined. For families receiving a diagnosis now -- often at newb...
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Croup in Children: What It Is, What to Do, and When to Seek Help
Croup is one of the most recognisable and alarming childhood illnesses for parents who encounter it for the first time — the barking, seal-like cough...
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Crohn's Disease in Children: Recognising and Managing IBD
Inflammatory bowel disease in children is underdiagnosed. The symptoms -- abdominal pain, changes in bowel habit, fatigue, and poor weight gain -- ove...
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Cradle Cap: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Treat It
Cradle cap looks much worse than it is. New parents often see thick yellow-brown crust covering a previously perfect newborn scalp and assume somethin...
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Cow's Milk Protein Allergy in Babies: Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Milk Ladder
Cow's milk protein allergy is real, important, and treatable. It is also routinely over-diagnosed in UK babies — both in NHS and private practice — le...
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Preventing Constipation in Toddlers: Diet, Habits, and the Withholding Cycle
Constipation in toddlers is far more common than parents realise, and it has a way of taking over family life — bedtimes hijacked by reluctant toilet...
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Conjunctivitis in Toddlers: A Practical Parent's Guide
A toddler with red, sticky, weeping eyes is a routine experience in any family using nursery — these settings are essentially conjunctivitis factories...
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Newborn Bowels: What's Normal in Breastfed and Formula-Fed Babies
New parents stare at nappies more than they stare at almost anything else. The contents tell you something — about feeding, about the baby's gut, abou...
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Conjunctivitis in Children: Types, Treatment, and Red Flags
A child wakes up with one eye sealed shut by yellow crust. By lunchtime the other eye is going the same way. Their eye is bright pink and watering. Th...
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Sticky and Pink Eyes in Babies: Causes and What to Do
Sticky eyes are one of the first things to alarm new parents. The baby wakes up, one eye is gummed shut with yellow goo, and you're pulling apart eyel...
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Congenital Heart Disease in Children: An Overview for Families
"Heart defect" is one of the most frightening phrases a parent can hear. It pulls in pictures of intensive care, tiny chests sutured shut, machines do...
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Colour Blindness in Children: What It Means and How to Support Them
Colour blindness usually surfaces by accident. The child draws the sky in green and the grass in brown. They can't tell when a strawberry is ripe. The...
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Cold Sores in Children: First Infection, Recurrences, and When to Worry
The first time you see your toddler's mouth covered in painful ulcers, with fever and dribble running down their chin because swallowing hurts, it loo...
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Colic in Newborns: What Helps During Those Long Crying Episodes
You have a healthy, well-fed baby who screams every evening for hours, refuses to be put down, and looks like they're in agony. Nothing you do helps f...
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Coeliac Disease in Children: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and the Gluten-Free Diet
The textbook picture of coeliac disease — a thin, miserable toddler with chronic diarrhoea — is real, but it's the minority. Most children diagnosed t...
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Clubfoot (Talipes Equinovarus): The Ponseti Method, Step by Step
A clubfoot diagnosis can look much worse than its outcome. The foot at birth — turned down and inward, sometimes severely — looks like it could only b...
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