Daycare
How to Support a Child During Periods of Frequent Colds (US)
The first year of daycare is often the year of many colds. A child who was barely sick before suddenly seems to have a runny nose for ten months strai...
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Daycare
How to Support a Child During Periods of Frequent Colds (UK)
The first year of daycare is often the year of many colds. A child who was barely sick before suddenly seems to have a runny nose for ten months strai...
4 min read
Daycare
How to Support a Child During Periods of Frequent Colds (Global)
The first year of daycare is often the year of many colds. A child who was barely sick before suddenly seems to have a runny nose for ten months strai...
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Health
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
Tonsillitis in Children Under Three: What to Look For
A toddler can't tell you their throat hurts. They go off their milk, get clingy, run a fever, and you spend the afternoon trying to work out whether t...
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Health
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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Health
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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Health
When to See a Doctor for Pyelonephritis
A urinary tract infection that has reached the kidney is a more serious situation than a straightforward bladder infection — and in young children the...
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Health
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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Health
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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Health
How to Recognise Cystitis in a Young Child
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in young children — commonly referred to as cystitis when confined to the bladder — are easily missed because the symp...
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Sleep
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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Safety
Seasonal Illness Season: A Realistic Plan to Keep Your Child Safer
Every September, parents brace for the wave of coughs, snots, fevers and broken nights that arrives with school and falls away around June. The wave i...
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Safety
When to Limit Contact with Other Children
Social interaction is essential for children's development, yet there are times when limiting contact with peers is medically and ethically important....
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Safety
Illness Prevention as Part of Child Safety
Child safety encompasses far more than preventing injuries and accidents. Preventing illness is an equally critical component of keeping children safe...
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Safety
Why Handwashing Beats Almost Every Other Hygiene Intervention
Handwashing is the single most over-recommended and under-explained hygiene intervention. Every authority says do it; few explain *why* it works, *whe...
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Health
Protecting a Newborn from Colds and Respiratory Illness
The vulnerability of a newborn to colds and respiratory illness is real, but it is also manageable — and the protective steps that work are simple and...
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Health
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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Parenting
Parenting With Chronic Illness or Disability
About 60% of US adults live with at least one chronic condition; about 26% live with a disability. A real number of those people are parenting young c...
9 min read
Health
How to Tell If a Baby Has a Cold: Recognising Illness in Young Infants
The hardest part of the first few months of parenting is not the broken sleep — it is being asked to assess medical situations on a brain running on 4...
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