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  • How to Prevent Tooth Decay in Your Baby
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Baby teeth are important. If baby teeth are lost too early, the teeth that are left may move and not leave any room for adult teeth to come in. Also, if tooth decay is not prevented, it can be costly to treat, cause pain, and lead to life-threatening infections.

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  • How to Take Your Child's Temperature
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Your temperature (TEM-pruh-chur) is how warm or cold your body is. Normal temperature for a child is 98°F to 99°F or 37°C. Anything over 100.4°F or 38°C is a fever.

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  • Imaging Tests: A Look Inside Your Child's Body
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Imaging tests are used to “look” inside the body. They can help diagnose injuries and illnesses from broken bones to cancer. Some tests can find problems before symptoms appear. Here is information from the American Academy of Pediatrics about imaging tests.

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  • Immunizations: What You Need To Know
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Immunizations have helped children stay healthy for more than 50 years. They are safe and they work. In fact, serious side effects are no more common than those from other types of medication. Vaccinations have reduced the number of infections from vaccine-preventable diseases by more than 90%! Yet many

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  • Infant Furniture: Cribs
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  • Influenza (Flu): What You Need to Know
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    All flu viruses cause a respiratory illness that can last a week or more. Flu symptoms include

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  • Inhaled and Intranasal Corticosteroids and Your Child
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    If your child has asthma or allergic rhinitis (hay fever), your pediatrician may prescribe a corticosteroid, also commonly referred to as a steroid. These medicines are the best available to decrease the swelling and irritation (inflammation) that occurs with persistent asthma or allergy. They are not

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  • Insect Repellents: What Parents Need to Know
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Mosquitoes, biting flies, and tick bites can make children miserable. While most children have only mild reactions to insect bites, some children can become very sick. Some insects carry dangerous germs such as West Nile virus, Lyme disease bacteria, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever bacteria.

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  • Is Your Toddler Communicating With You?
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Your baby is able to communicate with you long before he or she speaks a single word! A baby's cry, smile, and responses to you help you to understand his or her needs. In this publication the American Academy of Pediatrics shares information about how children communicate and what to do when there are

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  • Jaundice and Your Newborn
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Here is information from the American Academy of Pediatrics about jaundice, bilirubin levels, treatment of jaundice, when to follow up after discharge, and when to call the doctor.

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  • Keep Your Family Safe: Fire Safety and Burn Prevention at Home
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Fires and burns cause almost 4,000 deaths and about 20,000 hospitalizations every year. Winter is an especially dangerous time, as space heaters, fireplaces, and candles get more use in the home. It is no surprise that fires in the home are more common between December and February. However, you might

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  • Lead Is a Poison: What You Need to Know
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Lead in the body can affect child development and behavior. Lead is a metal that is found in a lot of places. Although you can’t usually see lead, you can do things to prevent your child from being exposed to it. No safe level of lead has been identified for children. Children have the most risk factors

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  • Lyme Disease
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Lyme disease is an important public health problem in some areas of the United States. Since its discovery in Lyme, CT, in 1975, thousands of cases of the disease have been reported across the United States and around the world. By knowing more about the disease and how to prevent it, you can help keep

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  • Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools—Preterm Newborns (Preemies): An Overview
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    One in 10 babies (9.6%) was born prematurely in the United States in 2016.

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  • Medicine and the Media: How to Make Sense of the Messages
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    Your child is sick or hurt and the first thought on your mind is, “How can I make my child better?” That's natural. No parent wants his or her child to suffer. So how do you decide what medicines to give or treatments to try?

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  • Middle Ear Fluid and Your Child
    Category: newborns_infants_and_toddlers

    The middle ear is the space behind the eardrum that is usually filled with air. When a child has middle ear fluid (otitis media with effusion), it means that a watery or mucus-like fluid has collected in the middle ear. Otitis media means middle ear inflammation, and effusion means fluid.

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