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Constipation in Toddlers: Causes, Diet, and When to Seek Help
Constipation is one of the most common problems GPs see in toddlers and young children. It affects roughly one in three children at some point, and fo...
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Tic Disorders in Children: From Transient Tics to Tourette Syndrome
A child who suddenly starts blinking repeatedly, clearing their throat every few seconds, or making small jerking movements with their shoulder can be...
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Threadworms in Children: Treatment and Prevention
Threadworms are the most common intestinal parasite in the UK, and their prevalence is something of a social secret. Around 40 per cent of children un...
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Teenage Substance Use: Alcohol, Cannabis and Vaping -- What Parents Should Know
Discovering that a teenager is using substances -- whether it's the smell of alcohol, finding a vape, or noticing that their eyes are red -- produces...
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Stomatitis in Young Children: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Mouth pain in a small child is one of those symptoms that pulls everything else with it — they won't eat, won't drink, drool more than usual, sleep ba...
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Spina Bifida: Understanding the Condition and Supporting Your Child
Most spina bifida diagnoses now arrive before the baby does — picked up at the 20-week anomaly scan, sometimes earlier. That means many families are r...
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Social Anxiety in Teenagers: More Than Shyness
Most teenagers feel some degree of nervousness about social situations -- about fitting in, about being judged, about saying the wrong thing. Adolesce...
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Slapped Cheek Disease: What It Is and Why Pregnancy Exposure Matters
Slapped cheek is one of those childhood illnesses that causes little concern in the child having it, but can matter significantly in the households an...
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Sickle Cell Disease in Children: Living with a Complex Condition
Sickle cell disease is a condition many healthcare professionals outside specialist centres encounter infrequently, yet for affected families it is a...
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Short Stature in Children: When to Investigate and When to Reassure
Height anxiety is common among parents of children who are shorter than their peers. Most short children are short for entirely normal reasons -- they...
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Recognising Sepsis in Children: When to Act Fast
Sepsis is among the most important conditions for parents to know about, not because it is common, but because the window in which action makes a deci...
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Self-Harm in Teenagers: Understanding It and How to Help
Discovering that a teenager is self-harming is one of the most frightening experiences a parent can face. The instinct is often to react with alarm, t...
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Scoliosis in Children and Teenagers: What Parents Should Know
Most parents first notice scoliosis when they see that their child's spine doesn't look straight -- one shoulder higher than the other, a rib hump whe...
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Scarlet Fever in Children: Symptoms, Treatment, and Exclusion
Scarlet fever was a major cause of childhood death before the antibiotic era and remains one that parents sometimes recall as something serious, but i...
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Scabies in Children: Recognising and Treating It Properly
Scabies is one of those conditions that parents are initially reluctant to consider because it carries an unfair association with poor hygiene. In rea...
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Measles and Rubella in Children: Symptoms, Risks, and the MMR Vaccine
Measles and rubella are vaccine-preventable viral infections that were once among the most common childhood diseases before immunisation programmes dr...
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RSV in Babies and Young Children: What Parents Need to Know
Every parent with a child who has had bronchiolitis remembers the rapid breathing, the fast rise and fall of the chest, the crackling sound with each...
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Rotavirus in Young Children: What It Is and How to Manage It
Rotavirus was, before vaccination, the most feared cause of severe diarrhoeal illness in young children — not because it is a dangerous pathogen in we...
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Roseola: The Fever That Breaks and Then a Rash Appears
Roseola has a characteristic and slightly counterintuitive progression: a baby who has been unwell with a high fever for three to five days suddenly l...
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Ringworm in Children: What It Is, How to Treat It, and When to See a Doctor
The name is misleading and has confused parents for centuries. Ringworm contains no worm. It is a fungal infection, a dermatophyte that feeds on kerat...
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