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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...
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Myths and Facts About Dysentery in Young Children
Dysentery is a term that causes alarm — partly because of its historical association with severe illness and death. In modern practice, in a well-reso...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Blood in a Child's Stool: What It Means and When to Seek Help
Seeing blood in your child's nappy or on the toilet paper is frightening, even when the amount is tiny. In children, the cause is usually benign and t...
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