Childhood Illnesses: Older Child

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Explaining Illness and Death to Children

Please help me. My 10 year old daughter is having a difficult time accepting her grandmother's fatal illness. It will be a matter of time before she dies. My daughter is angry, hurt and afraid. I have tried to confort her and explain what is going on but she still very upset. Has anyone had this experience? What do you recommend?

Chicken Pox

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Chicken POX... 17 Month

HELP.. My niece is on her way with my sister from France. They discovered my niece has chicken pox in the airport! How do I keep them apart? what can i do to reduce the symptoms for my little guy?!

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Is It Chicken Pox???

Help, My son has a rash all over his chest, tummy and sides. They started...

Hand, Foot & Mouth

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Hand Foot and Mouth Disease

i just found out that my 14 month old has hand foot and mouth disease. my doctor gave me a print out about HFMD but i find it to be not very helpful. i have been researching it on the internet, but i was hoping someone that has been through this with their kids and will have some advice or insite on what to do and how she could have caught this.

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Hand Foot and Mouth

My daughter was diagnosed with Hand, foot and Mouth disease yesterday. I am...

Head Lice

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Is It Lice???

Hello Our friend came over with his daughter Saturday and found lice on her Sunday...I have vacuumed, disinfected and thrown away the costumes she was playing with. So here's the question my 2 year old has sticky white dandruff looking gunk on the top of her scalp(she is late to get hair so when wet you can see scalp) I didn't see anything moving what is it? What should I do?? She has not been scratching at all, and her brothers look fine. She also loves to rub yogurt in hair...don't ask...and hates to have her scalp scrubbed, which i...

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We Have LICE

My itchy head woes continued as we did a lice check yesterday. I have it,...

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Question About Lice

My 15 month old has lice. My mom discovered last week when we went over to...