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Warts and Verrucas in Children: What They Are and Whether Treatment Is Needed
Verrucas and warts produce outsized parental concern given that they are almost always harmless and most go away on their own. They are also extremely...
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Vaccination Concerns: Addressing Common Questions Honestly
Vaccine hesitancy is not simply ignorance that more information will fix. Research consistently shows that providing parents with vaccine safety data...
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Vaccinations in the First Year: What to Expect
The vaccination schedule for the first year of life can feel overwhelming when you first look at it — multiple appointments, several injections at a t...
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Urinary Tract Infections in Young Children: Recognising and Managing UTIs
The thing that catches families out about UTIs in young children is that they almost never look like a UTI. A six-month-old doesn't say her wee burns;...
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Urinary Tract Infections in Children: Symptoms, Treatment, and When to Investigate
The frustrating thing about UTIs in young children is the shape of the problem. Older children point to where it hurts; toddlers and babies don't, so...
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Undescended Testes: What Parents Need to Know
The newborn check is the moment a lot of parents first hear that something might be off. The midwife or doctor mentions that one testis isn't where it...
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Umbilical Hernia in Babies: What It Is and When It Resolves
You change a nappy, the baby cries, and suddenly there's a fleshy lump the size of a marble bulging out of the belly button. The first time, it looks...
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Umbilical Granuloma in Newborns: Causes, Treatment, and When to Worry
The cord stump dries up and drops off somewhere between days 5 and 21, and most babies are left with a clean little belly button. A few are left with...
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Ulcerative Colitis in Children: Diagnosis, Treatment and Living Well
A diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in a child usually arrives after months of being told it's a stomach bug, then anxiety, then maybe coeliac. By the t...
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Type 2 Diabetes in Children: A Growing Concern
A generation ago, telling a parent their twelve-year-old had type 2 diabetes was almost unheard of. It's now a regular conversation in paediatric clin...
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Type 1 Diabetes in Teenagers: Managing Transition and Independence
Most parents of children with type 1 diabetes brace for adolescence, and most still find it harder than they were ready for. The technical management...
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Type 1 Diabetes in Children: Living Well with Insulin Therapy
A type 1 diagnosis in a child usually arrives at speed and out of nowhere — a few weeks of more thirst than usual, more visits to the toilet than usua...
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Travel Sickness in Children: What Causes It and How to Manage It
A child who vomits in the car on every journey can change the entire shape of family life — short trips dreaded, long trips planned around laybys, pla...
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Travel Health for Children: Vaccinations, Sun, Insects and Tummy Bugs
Travel with children adds three things to a normal holiday list: vaccines you may need to start six weeks ahead, malaria tablets if you are heading an...
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Tourette Syndrome in Children: What It Is and How to Support Your Child
The picture most people carry of Tourette syndrome — shouted obscenities, dramatic body movements — is wrong for the great majority of children with t...
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Torticollis in Babies: Why a Baby Holds Their Head to One Side
A baby's head tilts to one side from the first weeks of life, or you notice they always look the same way at you across the cot — most of these babies...
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Children's Teeth: Development, Care, and Common Problems
The single most powerful thing a parent can do for their child's lifelong oral health takes 60 seconds, twice a day, with the right toothpaste — and t...
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Tonsillitis in Young Children: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
A sore throat in a small child throws a household off. They will not eat, the fever bounces overnight, swallowing hurts, and the question every parent...
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Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy: When Surgery Is Recommended and What to Expect
After a winter of repeated tonsillitis, almost every parent reaches the same point: surely it would be simpler to just take them out. Sometimes that i...
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Tongue Tie in Babies: Diagnosis, Impact on Feeding, and Treatment
Tongue tie is one of those topics where the conversation has run ahead of the evidence. A decade ago, plenty of significant ties were missed; today th...
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