When your child isn’t feeling well and has a fever it is important for you as the parent to try your best to comfort the child. Some children are very uncomfortable when they are running a high temperature, while other children act perfectly normal. As a parent, you need to know your child to properly ...
If you have ever gone through a febrile seizure with your child for the first time, you might know what it feels like to experience the fear of death. In 1986, when I was a young mother, I took my daughter who was 6 months old to the doctor to check out a high fever ...
What is Pneumococcus? Pneumococcus is a bacteria commonly associated with pneumonia, but which can also cause meningitis, sinusitis, otitis media, osteomyelitis, and other infectious diseases. Pneumococcus resides in the nasal passages and throats of about 10% of all adults and 40% of all healthy children at any given time. It is more prolific among groups ...
A mild infection that affects children in their early years, roseola can occasionally be contracted by adults as well. Roseola is so commonplace that most kids have been exposed to it before they enter kindergarten. Roseola is caused by a pair of viruses, and results in a fever that can linger for several days followed ...
In youth, a variety of causes can precipitate seizures. This happens often enough that approximately 3% of children have a seizure before the age of 15. Severity of the seizures, including the cause, can help determine the type of treatment that is necessary. While the majority of seizures in children are caused by fever (febrile ...
My daughter is a regular user of Advil and Tylenol to keep her fevers down. If she doesn’t use them she has febrile seizures. Using them so much has taught me a lot about how they work, and which one is actually better. I will compare the two in this article. Price: I just wanted ...
When your child has a fever it can be a very scary thing, and unless you know how to treat this fever it may even cause many parents to panic. However, educating yourself on the best ways to reduce a fever is much better than panicking! Stay calm, and keep reading. First off the most ...
A febrile seizure is a seizure in a young child that is caused by a high fever. Generally the seizure happens when the fever is rising for whatever reasons. Many parents have not even realized their child has a fever until the seizure happens. These seizures are extremely scary while they are happening, but relaxing ...
Right now, my 11-month old daughter has roseola. She is cranky, miserable, and sure that I can fix it. (But I can’t.) Since I didn’t know roseola existed before my first baby got it, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned with new parents. Roseola is a highly contagious childhood virus that most commonly affects ...
In 1995, chickenpox suddenly became a major health problem. Six childrenwere reported to have died from chickenpox; frequent and repeated TVcoverage lasted for weeks without anyone mentioning that two of the sixchildren had leukemia and the others were on cortico-steroids. – Dr. F. Edward Yazbak For most of us adults, chickenpox was a right of ...
