Pediatric Report's Child Health Newsletter articles from April 1992

Pediatric Report's Child Health Newsletter archives from April 1992

What's a safe shoe?
April 1, 1992... What's a safe shoe? The results of a study in Pediatric Emergency Care will come as no surprise to most parents. But at least it will verify by scientific research what they might have instinctively felt all along. The study sought to...

Febrile seizures. (medication not recommended)
April 1, 1992... Febrile seizures If there is one thing that induces panic in parents, it's watching their child have a convulsion. Although the seizure may in fact be brief, it appears to last forever. Not only is the seizure itself frightening,...

Psychosomatic complaints of young children.
April 1, 1992... Psychosomatic complaints of young children Anxious or stressed children may develop a variety of symptoms. Traditionally it has been felt that headaches and stomachaches were the most typical forms of psychosomatic complaints. However,...

Kawasaki syndrome: does rug or carpet cleaning put children at risk?
April 1, 1992... Does rug or carpet cleaning put children at risk? In 1967, there appeared in a Japanese medical journal an article by Dr. T. Kawasaki entitled, "Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of...

Newborn hemorrhage. (prevention with vitamin K shot)
April 1, 1992... Newborn hemorrhage There is a disease that most parents have never heard of. It causes bleeding in babies from birth through the first few months of life. In most instances the bleeding is of no concern, but in a few situations, it...

How parents deal with infant and toddler sleep problems.
April 1, 1992... How parents deal with infant and toddler sleep problems Common childhood sleep problems and how parents deal with them was the subject of a report in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The authors conducted a telephone survey of...

Sudden infant death syndrome. (associated factors)
April 1, 1992... Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a horrible problem. We have heard theory after theory, but no real answer. Apparently healthy babies die for no apparent reason. Early in the 1970's, researchers...