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How to Recognise Meningitis in a Child
Meningitis is the diagnosis most parents quietly fear, and the fear is rational — it's one of the few illnesses in childhood that can move from lookin...
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Safety
When to Call Emergency Services
When a child is injured or ill, deciding whether to call emergency services can feel paralyzing. [Healthbooq](https://healthbooq.com/apps/healthbooq-k...
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Safety
What to Do if a Child Falls Into Water
Despite all prevention efforts, water emergencies can still occur. Knowing how to respond if a child falls into water or becomes unresponsive in water...
3 min read
Safety
If There's a Fire: The Plan You Decide On Now, Not at 3 a.m.
A working smoke alarm halves your chance of dying in a house fire. The other half is what you and the household actually do in the two or three minute...
11 min read
Safety
A Home First Aid Kit for Families with Children
Your child gets a scrape or develops a fever, and you need supplies immediately. A well-organized first aid kit allows you to respond to common injuri...
5 min read
Safety
Fire Safety in a Home with Small Children
House-fire deaths in the developed world have dropped dramatically over the past 40 years, and almost all of that gain is attributable to one thing: w...
7 min read
Safety
A Family Fire Plan That Actually Works (and Takes 30 Minutes to Set Up)
A modern house fire develops faster than the picture most people carry around. Older furniture (cotton, wool, solid wood) burned slowly enough that fa...
7 min read
Safety
Button Batteries: Why They're a True Emergency, and How to Prevent One
There is a small disc-shaped battery in your house right now — probably in a key fob, a remote control, a kitchen scale, a hearing aid, a light-up gre...
7 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
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...
6 min read
Daycare
Emergency Childcare: What to Have in Place
The morning your child cannot go to nursery is rarely the morning a backup is easy to find. The childminder catches Covid; nursery shuts the baby room...
8 min read
Health
Your Child's Health: From Newborn to Age Five
A new parent makes more health calls in the first year than in any other year of their life. Most of them turn out fine. The hard part is the differen...
10 min read
Health
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...
5 min read
Health
Recognising Meningitis in Young Children: Symptoms and Emergency Action
Most parents know to look for the rash. The problem is that the rash is often the last thing to show up — by the time a non-blanching purple spot appe...
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Health
Intussusception: A Serious Cause of Sudden Abdominal Pain in Infants
Intussusception is uncommon — somewhere between one and four cases per thousand babies in the UK — but it is one of the conditions paediatric A&E doct...
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Safety
Infant and Child CPR: What Every Parent Should Know
This is the article you hope you never need. Most parents never will. But the gap between knowing roughly what to do in the first two minutes of a pae...
6 min read
Safety
Head Injuries in Children: When to Worry and When to Wait
Children fall on their heads. Frequently, in many cases. The toddler who tumbles off the sofa, the preschooler who runs headlong into a door frame, th...
5 min read
Health
Dental Emergencies in Children: What to Do and When to Act
A child runs across the playground, trips, and plants their face on the concrete. Within 30 seconds you're looking at a bloody mouth, a panicked toddl...
7 min read
Health
Appendicitis in Children: Recognising It Before Perforation
Appendicitis is treatable and, caught before the appendix bursts, carries an excellent outcome. The hard part is the diagnosis. The textbook story — c...
5 min read
Health
Anaphylaxis in Children: Recognising It and Using an EpiPen
Anaphylaxis is rare but fast. A child can go from itchy lips after a bite of cashew to struggling to breathe within minutes. The parents who manage it...
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