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Medical Articles Illnesses and Symptoms... Abdominal Pain - Female Abdominal Pain - Male Acne Animal or Human Bite Antibiotics: When Do They Help? Anxiety Attack Arm Injury Arm Pain Asthma Attack Athlete's Foot Back Pain Bed Bug Bite Bee or Yellow Jacket Sting Behavioral Health Problems Blisters Boil Bottle-Feeding (Formula) Questions Breast Symptoms-Child Breast Symptoms-Teen Breast-Feeding Questions Breath-holding Spell Breathing Trouble Bronchiolitis-RSV Bruises and Cuts Burn Chest Pain Chickenpox Circumcision Problems Colds Colds (0-12 Months) Constipation Cough Cough (0-12 Months) Coughs: Meds or Home Remedies? COVID-19 Diagnosed or Suspected COVID-19 Exposure, But No Symptoms COVID-19 or Influenza - How to Tell Cracked or Dry Skin Cradle Cap Croup Crying Baby - Before 3 Months Old Crying Child - 3 Months and Older Cut, Scrape, or Bruise Depression Diaper Rash Diarrhea Diarrhea (0-12 Months) Diarrhea Diseases From Travel Dizziness Drinking Fluids - Decreased Dry Skin Ear - Congestion Ear - Discharge Ear - Pulling At or Rubbing Ear - Swimmer's Ear Infection Questions Ear Injury Ear Piercing Symptoms Earache Earwax Buildup Ebola Exposure Eczema Emergency Symptoms Not to Miss Eye - Allergy Eye - Foreign Object Eye - Pus or Discharge Eye - Red Without Pus Eye Injury Eye Swelling Fainting Fever Fever - How to Take a Temperature (0-12 Months) Fever - How to Take the Temperature Fever - Myths Versus Facts Fever (0-12 Months) Fifth Disease-Viral Rash Finger Injury Fire Ant Sting Flu Fluid Intake Decreased Food Allergy Foreskin Care Questions Frostbite Genital Injury - Female Genital Injury - Male Hair Loss Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease-Viral Rash Hay Fever Head Injury Head Lice Headache Heat Exposure and Reactions Heat Rash Hives Hoarseness Human or Animal Bite Immunization Reactions Impetigo - Infected Sores Infection Exposure Questions Influenza - Seasonal Influenza Exposure Insect Bite Jaundiced Newborn Jellyfish Sting Jock Itch Leg Injury Leg Pain Lice - Head Lymph Nodes - Swollen Medicine - Refusal to Take Menstrual Cramps Menstrual Period - Missed or Late Mental Health Problems Molluscum-Wart Mosquito Bite Mosquito-Borne Diseases from Travel Motion Sickness Mouth Injury Mouth Ulcers Neck Pain or Stiffness Newborn Appearance Questions Newborn Illness - How to Recognize Newborn Rashes and Birthmarks Newborn Reflexes and Behavior Nose Allergy (Hay Fever) Nose Injury Nosebleed Panic Attack Penis-Scrotum Symptoms-Child Penis-Scrotum Symptoms-Teen Pinworms Poison Ivy - Oak - Sumac Puncture Wound Rash or Redness - Localized Rash or Redness - Widespread Reflux (Spitting Up) Ringworm Roseola-Viral Rash RSV-Bronchiolitis Scabies-Itch Mite Rash Scorpion Sting Scrape Sexually Transmitted Infections Sinus Pain or Congestion Skin Foreign Object Skin Injury Skin Lump Sliver or Splinter Solid Foods (Baby Foods) Sore Throat Spider Bite Spitting Up - Reflux STI Exposure Stomach Pain - Female Stomach Pain - Male Stools - Blood In Stools - Unusual Color Strep Throat Exposure Strep Throat Infection Sty Sunburn Suture Questions Swallowed Foreign Object Swallowed Harmless Substance Swimmer's Itch - Lakes and Oceans Tear Duct - Blocked Teething Thrush Tick Bite Toe Injury Toenail - Ingrown Tooth Injury Toothache Trouble Breathing Umbilical Cord Symptoms Urinary Tract Infection - Female Urination Pain - Female Urination Pain - Male Vaginal Bleeding Vaginal Symptoms-Child Vaginal Symptoms-Teen Vomiting (0-12 Months) Vomiting With Diarrhea Vomiting Without Diarrhea Warts Weakness and Fatigue Wheezing (Other Than Asthma) Wound Infection

Medical Articles Medical Conditions... Acute Ear Infections and Your Child Allergies in Children Anaphylaxis: What Parents Need to Know Anemia in Children and Teens Anesthesia and Your Child: Information for Parents Ankle Sprain Treatment (Care of the Young Athlete) Antibiotics Aren't Always Needed Anxiety Appendicitis Asthma Asthma and Your Child Asthma Triggers Bedbugs—Child Care and Schools Bedwetting Bedwetting and School-aged Children Bites (Human and Animal)—Child Care and Schools Boil/Abscess/Cellulitis—Child Care and Schools Breath-Holding Spells Bronchiolitis and Your Young Child Campylobacter—Child Care and Schools Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Infections)—Child Care and Schools Clean Intermittent Catheterization for Boys Clean Intermittent Catheterization for Girls Clostridioides difficile (Formerly Known as Clostridium difficile; Also Called “C diff”)—Child Care and Schools Common Childhood Infections Congenital Hip Dysplasia Constipation and Your Child Corticosteroids: What Parents Need to Know COVID: How to Prepare for Your Child’s COVID Vaccination COVID-19: What Families Need to Know Croup Croup and Your Young Child Croup: When Your Child Needs Hospital Care Crying and Your Baby: How to Calm a Fussy or Colicky Baby Cryptosporidiosis—Child Care and Schools Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection—Child Care and Schools Depression Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip Diaper Rash and Your baby Diarrhea and Your Child Diarrhea Caused by Specific Types of E coli (Escherichia coli)—Child Care and Schools Diarrhea—Child Care and Schools Ear Infection—Child Care and Schools Eating Disorders Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis) and Your Child Febrile Seizures Fever and Your Child Fever—Child Care and Schools Fifth Disease Fifth Disease (Human Parvovirus B19)—Child Care and Schools Food Allergies: What Parents Need to Know Food Borne Illnesses Gastroenteritis, Viral Gastroenteritis: When Your Child Needs Hospital Care Giardiasis—Child Care and Schools Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib)—Child Care and Schools Hand Foot and Mouth Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease—Child Care and Schools Head Lice Head Lice: What You Need to Know Hepatitis A Infection—Child Care and Schools Hepatitis B Infection—Child Care and Schools Herpes Simplex (Cold Sores)—Child Care and Schools Hip Dysplasia (Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip) HIV and AIDS: What You Need to Know HIV/AIDS—Child Care and Schools How to Take Your Child's Temperature Imaging Tests: A Look Inside Your Child's Body Immunizations Impetigo—Child Care and Schools Influenza (Flu): What You Need to Know Influenza—Child Care and Schools Lead Poisoning Learning Disabilities: What Parents Need to Know Lice (Pediculosis Capitis)—Child Care and Schools Lyme Disease Lyme Disease (and Other Tick-borne Diseases)—Child Care and Schools Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Allergic Skin Conditions Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Allergies: An Overview Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Anaphylaxis Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Asthma Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) Measles—Child Care and Schools Meningitis—Child Care and Schools Mental Health Middle Ear Fluid and Your Child Molluscum Contagiosum—Child Care and Schools Mononucleosis—Child Care and Schools Mosquito-borne Diseases—Child Care and Schools Mouth Sores—Child Care and Schools Mpox: What Parents Need to Know Mumps—Child Care and Schools Norovirus—Child Care and Schools Osgood-Schlatter Disease (Care of the Young Athlete) Pain Medicine After Medical Procedures: What Parents Need to Know Pain Medicine After Surgery: What Parents Need to Know Parasites - Giardia Pinkeye (Conjunctivitis)—Child Care and Schools Pinkeye and Your Child Pinworms—Child Care and Schools Pneumonia and Your Child Pneumonia—Child Care and Schools Protecting Your Child With the COVID-19 Vaccine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): What Parents Need to Know Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)—Child Care and Schools Ringworm—Child Care and Schools Roseola (Human Herpesvirus 6 and 7)—Child Care and Schools Rotavirus Rotavirus—Child Care and Schools Rubella (German measles)—Child Care and Schools Safety of Blood Transfusions Salmonella—Child Care and Schools Scabies—Child Care and Schools Shigella—Child Care and Schools Shingles (Herpes Zoster)—Child Care and Schools Sinusitis and Your Child Sleep Apnea and Your Child Staphylococcus aureus (Methicillin-Resistant [MRSA] and Methicillin-Sensitive [MSSA])—Child Care and Schools Strep Throat (Streptococcal Pharyngitis) and Scarlet Fever—Child Care and Schools Sty—Child Care and Schools Thrush (Candidiasis)—Child Care and Schools Tonsils and Adenoid Toxoplasmosis Tuberculosis (TB)—Child Care and Schools Type 2 Diabetes: Tips for Healthy Living Upper Respiratory Infection (Common Cold)—Child Care and Schools Urinary Tract Infection—Child Care and Schools Urinary Tract Infections in Young Children Vomiting—Child Care and Schools Warts (Human Papillomavirus)—Child Care and Schools Whooping Cough (Pertussis)—Child Care and Schools Your Child Has a Sore Throat: What's the Cause? 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