By Taylor Nicioli, CNN Published 12:19 AM EST, Mon February 20, 2023 Fever-reducing medications may keep children comfortable, but unnecessary usage can postpone a diagnosis of what’s causing the fever.Konstantin Postumitenko/Adobe StockCNN — Many parents turn quickly to fever-reducing medication when their children begin to show signs of a fever, but pediatricians are warning that may...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory about a rise in children hospitalized with a severe respiratory illness who also test positive for the rhinovirus or enterovirus EV-D68. That particular enterovirus has been associated with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)—a rare polio-like illness that affects the nerve cells in the gray matter of...
by Columbia University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Last week, the CDC released an advisory regarding severe cases of parechovirus in young infants. Parechovirus is a common virus: most children have had it by the time they are five years old. Children with the virus often exhibit fever, cold symptoms (runny nose, cough, congestion), gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting),...
by Kara L Smythe, The Conversation Both parents can struggle with depression after the birth of their child. Credit: Antonio Guillem/ Shutterstock Many new parents struggle with mental health issues. Research suggests up to a quarter of new mothers and one in ten fathers experience depression after the birth of their child. Although there has been greater awareness and...
“The symptoms are virtually synonymous with the common cold—runny nose, congestion, maybe a little cough—but RSV is associated with a much higher risk of progression from an upper respiratory cold to a lower lung infection,” says Patrick Gavigan, pediatric infectious disease physician at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. “This includes viral pneumonia or bronchiolitis, which involves inflammation...
