Again today, in A&E, 9 out out of 10 patients were Acute Gastroenteritis. The condition usually starts with vomiting and then may stop there or progress to diarrhoea as well. Sometimes it’s just diarrhoea without…
Date Archives August 2017
A useful article on hair loss in children.
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/hair-loss-in-children And a very old but excellent one http://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/68/5/702.full.pdf
My legs are hurting ! (Growing pains)
Many children, usually from 3-10, complain of pain in their legs, specially at night. Parents tend to massage their legs and ‘who doesn’t like their legs massaged?
Tests for allergies
They are mainly two types. Skin prick test and blood test for Specific IgE against allergen (thing causing allergy).
Chronic abdominal pain (Tummy ache).
Recently lot of children have presented with chronic abdominal pain, It might have started with an episode of diarrhoea but sometimes only vomiting. Usually it’s viral in nature and depending on the involvement of the…
Why is breastfeeding in public stigmatised?
http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/breastfeeding