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Vomiting in Young Children: When to Manage at Home and When to Call

Vomiting is one of the most common reasons parents call a health professional in the first three years. Most of it is a stomach bug that runs its cour...

6 min read

Health

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...

4 min read

Health

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...

4 min read

Safety

Heat Exhaustion in Young Children: What to Watch For

Heat-related illness in young children rarely arrives with warning. One minute they're playing, the next they're floppy in your lap with hot pink chee...

6 min read

Health

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...

7 min read

Parenting

Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Severe Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy

There's a version of pregnancy sickness that crackers and ginger fix. And there's a version where you have vomited 18 times in a day, can't keep water...

8 min read

Health

Dehydration in Children: Signs, Causes, and When It Becomes Serious

A child throws up twice in the morning, refuses lunch, and goes quiet on the sofa. Most of the time this is a 24-hour stomach bug that resolves with p...

7 min read

Health

Dehydration in Babies and Toddlers: Signs, Treatment, and Prevention

A stomach bug runs through a nursery, and within 48 hours half the babies in the room are home with their parents. What surprises most first-time pare...

7 min read