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A runny nose is one of the most common symptoms of childhood, and most parents are well acquainted with the seemingly endless nasal discharge of the e...
Very few newborn behaviours cause as much parental anxiety as spitting up. The image of a baby who brings up a portion of every feed, soaks through se...
Rashes are one of the most common reasons parents call a GP, NHS 111, or a health visitor in the first few years — and one of the most variable in wha...
The first time a baby projectile-vomits across the room, parents tend to look at each other and ask whether that was *normal*. It isn't — not in the w...
Puberty conversations with boys tend to happen later, with less detail, and in fewer rounds than the equivalent conversations with girls. The cost of...
Psoriasis tends to look like a stubborn, slightly mysterious rash on the elbows and knees, and that is most of what gets flagged in a GP appointment....
The shelves of any chemist now carry probiotic drops, sachets, and powders aimed at babies, with claims that span colic, immunity, eczema, digestion,...
A premature birth scrambles the developmental timeline in a way that confuses parents and, at times, professionals. Standard milestone charts assume 4...
Bringing a premature baby home after weeks or months in the NICU is the moment most parents have been counting toward — and it is also the moment wher...
A parent noticing breast development in their six-year-old daughter, or pubic hair in their seven-year-old son, faces a confusing and worrying situati...
Pneumonia is a word that understandably alarms parents, but it is important to understand what it means and what it does not mean in the context of yo...
Period pain is so common among teenage girls that it is often dismissed -- by parents, by friends, and sometimes by healthcare professionals -- as som...
"He came out in a rash when he was two and was on amoxicillin -- he's been down as penicillin allergic ever since." This is one of the most common his...
PCOS is diagnosed too late in many young women, not because it is rare but because its features are easy to dismiss as ordinary adolescent variation....
The first time you spot a tiny white thread moving on a child's bottom at 11 pm, the instinct is roughly equal parts horror and shame — neither warran...
A 13-year-old's parents notice she's spending 45 minutes in the shower in the morning and again at night. The water bill is up. There's a missing patc...
There's a recognisable presentation parents bring to A&E with a toddler: a 2-year-old, dressed in coat and wellies, sitting on a parent's hip with one...
A school sends home a child with a stained jumper and the parent panics; in reality the volume on the fabric is two teaspoons of blood spread thin. No...
A nosebleed in a child looks worse than it almost ever is. The bathroom sink, the school jumper, the panicked text from nursery — all of it adds up to...
The thermometer reading on a newborn carries more weight than it will at any later point in childhood. A reading of 38°C means something different in...