Should I be worried about a child with a febrile convulsion?
Follow @paedspearls Tweet (Taken from the July Emergency Department edition of Paediatric Pearls) ‘A febrile seizure usually occurs between 3 months and 5 years of age, associated with fever but...
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Follow @paedspearls Tweet This month’s Paediatric Pearls digest PDF for General Practitioners is available here. Topics include: febrile convulsions, neonatal jaundice and enuresis Please use the...
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Follow @paedspearls Tweet This month’s emergency department version of Paediatric Pearls has information on dehydration from the NICE guideline on gastroenteritis in the under 5s, a bit on seizures and...
View ArticleAntipyretics – single or dual therapy?
Follow @paedspearls Tweet Managing Fever in Children with thanks to Dr Ranjev Kainth Fever, both in primary and secondary care is a frequent presentation. Often, it is a sign of an illness and in the...
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Follow @paedspearls Tweet Do you know your valgus from your varus? Or your myclonic epilepsy from your sleep myoclonus? A link this month to new asthma patient information leaflets and some reminders...
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Follow @paedspearls Tweet Seasonal treats this month in the form of bronchiolitis treatments and the use of antipyretics in febrile convulsions. Perennial subjects include obesity, BCG lymphadenitis...
View ArticleHappy New Year 2018! January newsletter uploaded.
Follow @paedspearls Tweet Raised intracranial pressure this month, nappy rash, complex febrile seizures, tingling side effects of recreational nitrous oxide use and Vitamin D – again…. Please do leave...
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Follow @paedspearls Tweet June 2018 features include the rotavirus immunisation, febrile myoclonus, investigating normochromic anaemia, complications of sinusitis and the first in our adolescence...
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Follow @paedspearls Tweet August brings more returning travellers, this time with dengue fever. Also adolescent sleep problems, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), an update on rhinitis and the...
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