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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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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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Pyloric Stenosis in Babies: Recognising the Signs and What Treatment Involves
The first time a baby projectile-vomits across the room, parents tend to look at each other and ask whether that was *normal*. It isn't — not in the w...
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Parenting
Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Severe Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
There's a version of pregnancy sickness that crackers and ginger fix. And there's a version where you have vomited 18 times in a day, can't keep water...
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Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Babies and Toddlers: What to Do
A first stomach bug in a baby is genuinely alarming — projectile vomit, watery green stools, a tiny person who suddenly seems floppy and miserable. Mo...
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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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