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Cleft Lip and Palate: What to Expect and How Treatment Works
A cleft lip or palate diagnosis — whether at the 20-week scan or in the delivery room — usually arrives without warning, and parents understandably go...
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ME/CFS in Children: What It Is and How It's Managed
For decades, children with ME/CFS were told to push through. The advice came from doctors, teachers, and well-meaning relatives who genuinely believed...
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Children's Feet: Normal Development and When to Get Checked
Children's feet generate a remarkable amount of parental anxiety. The observation that a toddler walks flat-footed, or that a child's feet point inwar...
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Vitamins and Nutritional Supplements for Children Under Five: What Is and Isn't Needed
The supplements and vitamins marketed for children represent a large and not always evidence-based industry. At the same time, genuine nutritional gap...
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Hives (Urticaria) in Children: Causes and Management
The first time a parent sees urticaria — a child arriving at bedtime covered in raised welts that are migrating around the body — it looks like an eme...
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Childhood Obesity: Understanding the Causes and What Actually Helps
Childhood obesity is one of the most stigmatised health conditions in the UK and one of the most poorly understood. The framing of "eat less, move mor...
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Migraine in Children: Recognition and Management
The child who is fine at the GP appointment but spent the previous evening green, vomiting, lying in a dark room with a hand over their eyes, and was...
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Why Childhood Vaccinations Matter: Understanding Immunisation and Its Benefits
Most parents under 50 in the UK have never seen a child with measles, paralytic polio, or diphtheria. This is not because these diseases became less d...
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Childhood Immunisation: The UK Vaccination Schedule Explained
The UK childhood immunisation schedule is a list of vaccines offered free to every child by the NHS, against the diseases that, before vaccination, ki...
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Childhood Cancer: Signs Parents Should Know
The aim of this article is to help parents recognise the small number of patterns that warrant a same-week GP appointment, without producing the anxio...
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Childhood Asthma: Inhalers, Spacers, and Managing Day-to-Day
Asthma is the most common long-term condition in UK children — about one in eleven, roughly one in every classroom. Most childhood asthma is well-cont...
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Chickenpox in Pregnancy and in Young Babies: What to Know
Chickenpox in a healthy child over a year old is usually a manageable two-week stretch of itching and calamine lotion. But there are three situations...
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Cerebral Palsy: Understanding the Diagnosis and What It Means for Your Child
A cerebral palsy diagnosis -- whether it arrives in the neonatal unit or after months of watching milestones not quite arrive -- is rarely a surprise...
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Chickenpox in Young Children: What to Expect and How to Manage It
Chickenpox is one of those childhood illnesses most parents will deal with at some point. In healthy young children it's usually mild, runs its course...
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Car Sickness in Young Children: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment
A child who reliably vomits on motorway journeys has a way of reshaping family travel around them. Car sickness in children is more common than in adu...
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CAMHS Referral: What to Expect and How to Navigate It
Being told your child needs a CAMHS referral rarely comes with a clear explanation of what happens next. The letter goes off, and then weeks or months...
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Bronchiolitis in Babies: Symptoms, Home Care, and Warning Signs
Bronchiolitis is the illness paediatric wards brace for every October. By January it will have hospitalised tens of thousands of babies in the UK. It...
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Bronchitis in Young Children: What Parents Need to Know
A child with a cough that has settled into the chest, sounds rattly or productive, and comes with a fever almost always prompts the same parental ques...
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Breath-Holding Spells in Toddlers: What Causes Them and What to Do
Watching your toddler hold their breath until they go blue or limp is genuinely terrifying. Every parental instinct screams that something is desperat...
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Bow Legs and Knock Knees in Young Children: Normal Development or Cause for Concern?
The new walker with the wide stance and curved-out legs. The four-year-old whose knees touch when she stands with her feet apart. Both look striking t...
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