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How Dangerous Is Ringworm in Infants
The name does most of the damage on its own. Ringworm sounds like a parasitic infestation; it's actually a fungal infection of the skin, and in health...
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Allergies in Infants: How to Identify the Cause
Working out what an infant is reacting to is harder than the parenting forums make it look. Babies meet five new foods in a fortnight, the worst eczem...
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Safety
When Babies Can Use Sunscreen
Sun protection in the first three years matters disproportionately. Childhood sunburn is one of the most consistent risk factors in melanoma research...
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Safety
Sun Safety for Young Children: What's Actually Risky and How to Protect Without Hiding Indoors
Sun safety for young children isn't about avoiding the outdoors. Children need vitamin D, fresh air, exercise, and the unstructured outdoor time that...
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Health
Newborn Skin Colour: What's Normal, What's Not
A newborn is not the smooth, uniform pink baby on the formula tin. In the first weeks expect bluish hands and feet, a yellow tinge across the face and...
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Care
Caring for Skin Folds in Newborns and Infants: Preventing and Treating Irritation
Babies have folds — at the neck, the armpits, the groin, behind the knees, behind the ears, the wrists. Those rolls trap milk, sweat, and the warm dam...
6 min read
Health
Rashes in Children: How to Tell What's Serious
A rash on a child is one of the most anxiety-provoking symptoms for parents, and one of the most common. The worry about meningitis is almost universa...
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Health
Warts and Verrucas in Children: What They Are and Whether Treatment Is Needed
Verrucas and warts produce outsized parental concern given that they are almost always harmless and most go away on their own. They are also extremely...
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Health
Scabies in Children: Recognising and Treating It Properly
Scabies is one of those conditions that parents are initially reluctant to consider because it carries an unfair association with poor hygiene. In rea...
4 min read
Health
Ringworm in Children: What It Is, How to Treat It, and When to See a Doctor
The name is misleading and has confused parents for centuries. Ringworm contains no worm. It is a fungal infection, a dermatophyte that feeds on kerat...
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Health
Psoriasis in Children: What It Is and How It's Managed
Psoriasis tends to look like a stubborn, slightly mysterious rash on the elbows and knees, and that is most of what gets flagged in a GP appointment....
7 min read
Care
Newborn Skin: What Is Normal and How to Care for It
A newborn's skin is the topic of more anxious WhatsApp messages than almost anything else in the first weeks. Peeling on the feet, blotchy red patches...
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Care
Newborn Skin Care: What to Use, What to Avoid, and Common Skin Conditions
The infant skincare aisle is enormous and almost none of it is necessary. NHS guidance for the first month is plain water, no soap, no fragranced wipe...
6 min read
Health
Newborn Jaundice: Normal or Not?
A yellow tint to a newborn's skin or eye whites is one of the most common findings in the first week. For most babies it is part of the normal newborn...
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Health
Neonatal Jaundice: Causes, What Is Normal, and When Treatment Is Needed
Yellow tint to the skin and the whites of the eyes is one of the most common things parents notice in the first week. For most babies it is part of th...
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Care
Nappy Rash: Causes, Treatment, and When to Get Help
Nappy rash is one of the few near-universal experiences of infancy. Almost every baby will have it at least once, and a real minority — usually those...
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Health
Molluscum Contagiosum in Children: A Guide for Parents
Most parents meet molluscum the same way: a few odd, pearly little bumps appear on a 4-year-old's tummy, you Google, and the Google results are unsett...
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Health
Milk Spots (Milia) and Other Newborn Skin Conditions That Look Alarming but Aren't
The newborns in stock photos do not exist. Real newborn skin in the first weeks is blotchy, peeling, sometimes pimpled, occasionally yellow-scaled, an...
6 min read
Health
Impetigo in Children: What It Looks Like, How It Spreads, and How to Treat It
Impetigo is the rash most parents recognise the second time they see it. Honey-coloured crust, usually around a 3-year-old's nose or mouth, appearing...
4 min read
Health
Food Allergy Tests in Children: What They Tell You and What They Don't
After a child has a food reaction — or even just suspected one — the natural next question is "what test will tell us?" The honest answer is more laye...
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