Children's Health: Infections

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  • Fever, Age 3 and Younger

    Article
    04/24/07, Healthwise

    Fever is the body's normal and healthy reaction to infection and other illnesses, both minor and serious. Fevers help the body fight infection. Fever is a symptom, not a disease. In most cases, fever means your child has a minor illnes

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  • Fever Seizures

    Article
    04/24/07, Healthwise

    Fever seizures (sometimes called fever convulsions) are uncontrolled muscle spasms that can occur in children who have a rapid increase in body temperature. You may not even know your child has a fever. The rapid increase in body tempe

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  • Monoclonal antibodies to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection

    Article
    08/09/06, Healthwise

    Palivizumab stops respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from reproducing. This medicine contains antibodies that are produced in the laboratory.

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  • Objects in the Nose

    Article
    04/20/07, Healthwise

    Young children are more likely than older children or adults to put small objects—such as beads, dried beans, popcorn, plastic toy pieces, foam rubber, or small batteries—up their noses. If the child doesn't tell you about

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  • How to control itching from the chickenpox rash

    Article
    06/13/06, Healthwise

    When you or your child has chickenpox, the rash that develops can be very uncomfortable.

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  • Febrile seizure

    Article
    01/04/08, MayoClinic.com

    Febrile seizures — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes of these frightening but generally harmless seizures.

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  • Roseola

    Article
    03/15/08, MayoClinic.com

    Roseola — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this common childhood infection and rash.

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  • Lyme Disease

    Article
    06/14/04, Children's Hospital Boston

    The number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States has more than doubled over the last decade, probably mostly as a result of increased public knowledge about the disease and more accurate diagnosing by doctors. But despite its prevale

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  • Ear Problems and Injuries, Age 11 and Younger

    Article
    02/23/06, Healthwise

    Ear pain in children may be a sign of an infection in the space behind the eardrum (middle ear). Ear infections (otitis media) most commonly occur when cold symptoms, such as a runny or stuffy nose and a cough, have been present

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  • Fever, Age 4 and Older

    Article
    04/24/07, Healthwise

    Fever is the body's normal and healthy reaction to infection and other illnesses, both minor and serious. It helps the body fight infection. Fever is a symptom, not a disease. In most cases, having a fever means you have a minor illness.

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