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Caring For A Sick Child
Parents can take a number of steps to help children who are sick with a cold or influenza. Children need to rest ...
Source: Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
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Choose a Diet Carefully When Your Child is Ill
Parents must carefully choose a child's diet to control nausea and diarrhea. You may want to ask your child's physician ...
Source: Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
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Tips on Giving Your Child Medicine
Following are tips that will help you safely give medicine to your child:Make certain you know about the medications ...
Source: Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
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Fever and Taking Your Child's Temperature
You've probably experienced waking in the middle of the night to find your child flushed, hot, and sweaty. Your little ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Mononucleosis
What Is "Mono"?Mononucleosis — or "mono" — is an infection that produces flu-like symptoms, and usually ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Is My Child Too Sick to Go to School?
I'm usually a pretty good judge of when my kids are too sick to go to school or daycare, but other times — like ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Fever: What You Need to Know
Are fevers dangerous?Not usually. A fever is the body’s natural response to an infection caused by virus or ...
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Group A Streptococcal Infections
OVERVIEW Group A streptococcal (strep) infections are caused by group A streptococcus, a bacterium responsible for a ...
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Keeping Teens Healthy - Immunizations for Teens
What’s it all about?Teens need immunizations. Many people don’t know that immunizations are just as ...
Source: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
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Other Health Impairment
DefinitionOther Health Impairment means having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened ...
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Rx for School Nursing
When Sandy Murray became a principal 15 years ago, she never thought she’d need to know so much about ringworm, fever,...
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Increasing Concerns About School Indoor Air Quality
We all know what to do when the TV weatherman issues a Code Red air pollution warning: Stay indoors if at all possible....
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Knowing Your Child's Medical History
When providing emergency care, doctors, nurses, and emergency personnel ...
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Kindergarten: Childhood Diseases
Your child's age, habits and surroundings lead to contact with a variety of germs that affect his health. Kindergarten...
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Instruction Sheets
It's practically impossible to parent a child from infancy to adolescence without encountering a situation, be it minor...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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