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Worm Infections in Children: What Parents Need to Know
Worm infections in children -- particularly threadworm -- are extremely common. Many parents are understandably alarmed when they discover a child has...
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Vomiting in Children: When to See a Doctor and When to Wait
Vomiting is one of the most common reasons parents contact their GP or seek urgent care, and it is often possible to manage safely at home once the un...
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Vitamins and Supplements for Babies and Children: What's Recommended
The question of whether and what vitamins to give children is one that parents encounter early, receive inconsistent advice about, and often find conf...
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Development
Sensory Sensitivity in Young Children: What's Normal and When to Seek Help
Some children cover their ears in the supermarket. Some gag when certain textures touch their mouths. Some seek constant physical movement or pressure...
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Health
Runny Nose in Children: What Causes It and When to Seek Help
Young children get a lot of runny noses. This is not a reflection of inadequate care; it is a consequence of the number of respiratory viruses circula...
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Rotavirus in Children: What to Expect and How to Care for Your Child
Before 2013, rotavirus was one of the most common reasons young children were admitted to hospital in the UK. Almost every child contracted it before...
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Health
Pyelonephritis in Children: When a Urine Infection Reaches the Kidney
Most childhood urine infections are confined to the bladder and clear with a short course of antibiotics. A smaller subset reaches the kidney — pyelon...
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Pharyngitis in Young Children: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
A sore throat in a young child -- painful swallowing, refusal to eat, a flushed and miserable appearance -- is one of the most common presentations to...
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Play
Outdoor Play for Children: Why It Matters and How to Make the Most of It
A 7-year-old in 1971 was, on average, allowed to walk to school alone, ride their bike to a friend's house in the next street, and play unsupervised i...
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Hay Fever in Children: Symptoms, Triggers, and Treatment
Hay fever is among the most common allergic conditions in the UK. For affected children, the spring and summer months bring a predictable deterioratio...
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Health
Food Poisoning in Children: What to Watch For, What to Do
A child who has been eating happily and is now vomiting and miserable is alarming. Most of the time it's a self-limiting infection that will be over i...
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Health
Burns and Scalds in Children: First Aid That Actually Works
Childhood burns are frighteningly fast — a pulled-down mug of tea, a grab at a hair straightener, a trip into a hot bath. The peak age is 1 to 3 years...
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Ear Infections in Children: Causes, Symptoms, and When Antibiotics Help
Ear infections show up in nearly every family with young children. They cause real pain, wreck nights of sleep, and account for a huge slice of GP app...
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Health
Dysentery in Young Children: Facts, Myths, and When to Seek Help
"Dysentery" is a word that lands hard on parents — it sounds Victorian, exotic, and serious all at once. The reality is more ordinary and more managea...
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Diarrhoea in Young Children: First Aid and Home Management
A toddler with proper diarrhoea — six, eight, ten loose stools a day — is exhausting, messy, and can be worrying. The reassuring part: in the under-5...
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Cystitis in Young Children: Recognising and Treating Bladder Infections
Urinary tract infections are among the most common bacterial infections in childhood, and cystitis -- infection of the bladder -- is the most frequent...
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Play
Creative Play in Children: Why It Matters and How to Support It
A toddler dragging a crayon across paper. A four-year-old running around a living room shouting "I'm a vet and you're the dog." A three-year-old build...
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Family Life
Cooking With Children: What's Realistic at Each Age
There's a reason children eat the cake they helped make even when they've turned their nose up at every other dessert that week. Helping prepare food...
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Health
Conjunctivitis Treatment in Children: A Practical Guide
You've worked out it's conjunctivitis. Now what? The treatment differs depending on which type you're dealing with, and a surprising amount of conjunc...
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Health
How to Treat Viral Respiratory Infections (URTI) in Young Children
The common cold in a young child generates a lot of parental worry and is one of the top reasons for GP appointments in the under-5s. In most cases, t...
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