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Question: Toddler having fits
Q: “My daughter is 19 months old. About a year ago she was playing on the sofa and she fell off. When I went to pick her up, she had her mouth open like she was holding in her breath to let out a big cry, but instead her eyes rolled back in her head, her…
Spastic quadraplegic cerebral palsy
Deborah Orbell, whose son Craig had spastic quadraplegic cerebral palsy, says keeping positive can make the world of difference to how you cope with a situation. It was touch and go for a while Craig had a very difficult delivery. He suffered oxygen starvation at birth and emptied his bowels, swallowing quite a lot of meconium before his delivery.…
What is shaken baby syndrome
Shaking can kill young babies but studies have shown that 50 per cent of parents are unaware of the dangers of roughly handling a small child. It therefore will come as a shock for many parents that playing roughly with a tiny infant is the equivalent to an adult being attacked by a gorilla. We take a look…
Shaken baby syndrome
Shaking can kill young babies but studies have shown that 50 per cent of parents are unaware of the dangers of roughly handling a small child. It therefore will come as a surprise for many parents that even just playing roughly with an infant is the equivalent to an adult being attacked by a gorilla.…
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Cartoon danger
23 February THE everyday activities of watching cartoons and having a bath have been found to cause seizures in susceptible children in two separate studies. The BBC reports that an Italian study discovered that children prone to photosensitive epilepsy nearly all had reactions due to flickering of the screen. The study followed problems in Japan…
New vaccine for pneumococcal meningitis
With Meningitis Awareness Day on 24th April, a new vaccine will be very welcome news. Meningitis Research Foundation welcomed the news of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) receiving European Commission approval for its new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Synflorix, to protect against 10 strains of pneumococcal disease in the UK. Any advances in the protection offered to children against this…
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