Fever

I get lots of stressed calls from moms and dads because their baby or child has a high fever, and Rule Number 1 is treat the fever and don’t panic. Their main worries seem to be that a high fever can in itself be harmful to a child that a...

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Neonatal Jaundice

Jaundice is very common in newborn babies in the first week of life. In fact if you measure the jaundice level (bilirubin) in all babies it will rise until day 7-8, then drop to normal levels in the second week. The cause of this physiological...

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Teething

People have been speaking and writing about teething for centuries, so there are many views about what teething does to a child and what one should do about it. Most of these views are unproven. So I’ll look at a few facts about teething...

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