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Fever and Diarrhoea During Teething: What to Do
The belief that teething causes fever and diarrhoea is one of the stickiest pieces of received parenting wisdom. It also has a long track record of le...
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How to Recognize Illness in a Newborn
Newborns can deteriorate fast and they can't tell you what's wrong, so the question parents really need answered isn't 'what's the diagnosis?' but 'do...
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How to Treat the Flu in Young Children
Influenza (flu) in young children is often more severe than in older children or healthy adults. Understanding how to manage it at home, when to seek...
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Teething and Fever or Diarrhoea: What the Evidence Shows
Ask most parents of a teething baby whether teething causes fever and diarrhoea, and the majority will say yes. This belief is so widespread and so co...
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How Illness Affects a Child's Sleep
Every parent knows that a sick child sleeps differently — sometimes more, sometimes less, and often in patterns that disrupt the family's usual sleep...
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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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Fever Without Other Symptoms in Infants: When to Be Concerned
A fever in a baby with a runny nose, a cough, and a recent infectious contact is, paediatrically, a fairly comfortable problem: the cause is obvious,...
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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...
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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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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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Night Sweats in Children: What's Normal and When to Worry
Lifting a toddler out of bed and finding their hair plastered down with sweat looks like illness. Most of the time it isn't. Children — particularly u...
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Managing Fever in Children at Home: What to Do and When to Worry
Fever causes more parental anxiety than almost any other part of childhood illness, and a lot of that anxiety is built on misunderstandings. The tempe...
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Kawasaki Disease: The Fever That Must Not Be Missed
Most childhood fevers are viral and self-limiting — three or four miserable days, paracetamol, fluids, and they bounce back. Kawasaki disease is the o...
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Influenza in Children: What Makes It Different From a Cold
Most parents who have nursed a child through actual influenza recognise it instantly the next time. There's no gradual build, no week of progressively...
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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...
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