Practical advice on childhood diseases directly from paediatricians. Here you will find the popular Acute Guide to Symptoms and articles on all common and important illnesses in children and babies. Then, in turn, there are articles about infections in children, diseases that cause rashes, allergies, diseases that affect breathing, blood diseases, diseases of the brain, blood, bowel and stomach.
Children's symptom guides
Children's ER symptom guides
Baby poo - what is normal? Green or slimy poo - what does it mean?
facts and advice on baby poo. Direct from paediatricians. Baby poo always raises questions. Is green poo a sign of illness. Can a baby have yellow poo? Should a baby have slimy poo
Children's ER symptom guides
Rashes and red spots in children - an image guide
Facts and advice about rashes and red spots in children. With pictures directly from paediatricians. When your child gets a rash or red spots, you of course wonder why. As a pediatrician, I can sometimes…
Children's ER symptom guides
Liquid replacement for children - recipes to prevent dehydration at home
Fluid replacement is indispensable when the children are sick, especially in the case of stomach ailments. Fluid replacement prevents dehydration and fluid deficiency in children. You can make your own liquid replacement after baby ...
Children's ER symptom guides
Febrile seizures or chills in children
Febrile seizures affect about one in twenty children at some time during infancy. It is most common between 6 months and 5 years of age. Febrile seizures are very scary for the parent, but so…
Children's ER symptom guides
Fever in Children- a paediatricians guide
Facts and advice on fever in children - direct from paediatricians. For many parents, the 40-degree fever is a magical limit. For a pediatrician, there are no magic temperature limits. Here you will read about what to do when the child has a fever and how to distinguish dangerous fevers from harmless ones.
Children's ER symptom guides
Pain in the chest of children - is it the heart?
Many children come to the ER every week with chest pain. The parents, and often the children, are worried that the child has a heart disease. For adults, especially middle-aged and older…
Breath
Baby with a common cold - how to comfort and help
The first time you as a parent have to take care of a baby with a cold comes with many questions. What to do? Will your baby cope with this? And it's probably not RS virus ... As a pediatrician, j ...
Breath
Frantic or strained breathing - guide when your child has difficulty breathing
Children who have frantic breathing, strained breathing or find it difficult to breathe are a large and important group for the pediatric nurse to care for. Many have a cold or asthma, others have croup . Some have…
Children's ER symptom guides
Lumps behind the ear, on the throat or in the neck of children
Have you noticed a lump behind the ear, throat or neck of your child? Maybe it's a lymph node, but should it really be there for so long? Can the lumps be something dangerous? To group ...
Children's ER symptom guides
Poor growth in children - investigate and interpret a growth curve
Suspicions of poor growth are common in children. In some way, the child has not followed their growth curve. As a paediatrician, I investigate many cases of poor weight gain or poor height growth and see many curves that are perfectly normal but that may have caused some concern.
Breath
Coughs in children - a guide on diseases and home remedies
Coughs protect the lungs from infections. In principle, all healthy children who catch a cold are coughing. It is good, and an important part of the body's protection against infections. Coughing up mucus and viruses that can…
Children's ER symptom guides
Recurrent fever and infections in children - a poor immune system?
How often can a child be sick without a reason? Are recurrent fever and infections indicative of poor immune system? Many parents ask this question, not least forward ...
Children's ER symptom guides
Blisters in the mouths of children
Several viral diseases can cause blisters in the mouths of children. A single blister, often called aphthas, need not cause much trouble. But diseases with blisters throughout the entire mouth and throat can cause fright…
Infections
Childhood diseases
Urinary tract infection (uvi) in children and babies - symptoms and treatment
Urinary tract infection (often called uvi) is common in infants and also quite common in older children. Urinary tract infection with fever, or renal pelvic inflammation, can be dangerous and needs treatment…
Childhood diseases
Coxsackie blisters in children - hand foot and mouth disease
Autumn blisters, or hand foot and mouth disease, are a viral disease that causes blisters in the mouth and blisters or dark rashes on the hands and feet. Hence the English term. The Swedish be…
Childhood diseases
Swine pox (impetigo) in children - infection and treatment
Swine fever or impetigo is a bacterial infection of the skin that is common in children. They are often rashes around the mouth or nose of young children. Staphylococci or streptococci are the bacteria that…
General facts about vaccines
This is how a baby's immune system works - through breastfeeding and antibodies
Facts about a baby's immune system, antibodies and breastfeeding. Direct from a Professor of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology. Do newborn babies have a functioning immune system or not? What do the antibodies in…
Breath
Whooping cough- symptoms, how it sounds, tests and treatment
Facts and advice on whooping cough. Direct from paediatricians. Standing next to a little baby with severe whooping cough is among the most worrysome thing I have ever been…
Childhood diseases
Borrelia in children - symptoms and treatment
Late summer and early fall are the high season for borrelia, a tick-borne bacterial disease that can cause symptoms from the skin, nervous system and joints. Round red ring growing = skin…
Childhood diseases
TBE in children - symptoms, infection, treatment
What is TBE? Facts and advice about TBE in children. TBE is an abbreviation for Tick-Borne Encephalitis, or tick-borne meningitis. The virus usually infects us through tick bites, but k…
Childhood diseases
Measles - symptoms, infection, treatment
Facts and advice on measles. Direct from paediatricians. Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases. The disease is unusual in Sweden, thanks to the vaccination. The measles was almost extinct…
Childhood diseases
Tick bites in children - how to remove ticks, signs of lyme disease and TBE
Tick bite is a risk to anyone staying in Sweden. Here you can read about how to remove ticks from your child, what diseases the child is at risk from and how to detect them. How s…
Childhood diseases
Tonsillitis, glandular fever and swollen lymph nodes in children
Throat and glandular fever are two throat infections in children where the lymph nodes on the throat become very swollen. The symptoms are fever, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing and quite often bad breath…
Childhood diseases
Otitis in children - symptoms and treatment
Facts and advice on ear infections direct from paediatricians. Symptoms of ear inflammation are heat or pain in the ear, fever and poor appetite. Many ear infections self-heal but sometimes ...
Childhood diseases
Streptococci in children - tonsillitis, strep throat and scarlet fever
Streptococci are bacteria that cause many different common infections in children. Tonsillitis, ear inflammation and swelling can be due to streptococci. Perenial dermatitis as well. Also a…
Children's ER symptom guides
Rashes and red spots in children - an image guide
Facts and advice about rashes and red spots in children. With pictures directly from paediatricians. When your child gets a rash or red spots, you of course wonder why. As a pediatrician, I can sometimes…
Childhood diseases
Stomach flu or winter sickness in children - infection, incubation time
Facts and advice about stomach ailments direct from paediatricians. Diarrhea and vomiting in children is almost always due to gastric disease, a viral infection which is also called stomach flu, winter vomiting or gastr ...
Children's ER symptom guides
Liquid replacement for children - recipes to prevent dehydration at home
Fluid replacement is indispensable when the children are sick, especially in the case of stomach ailments. Fluid replacement prevents dehydration and fluid deficiency in children. You can make your own liquid replacement after baby ...
Childhood diseases
Brain inflammation or meningitis in children - fever, neck stiffness, neck pain
Brain inflammation or meningitis as it is also called, is a feared infection in children. Bacterial meningitis is life-threatening and requires immediate care. Viral meningitis is so…
Children's ER symptom guides
Febrile seizures or chills in children
Febrile seizures affect about one in twenty children at some time during infancy. It is most common between 6 months and 5 years of age. Febrile seizures are very scary for the parent, but so…
Children's ER symptom guides
Fever in Children- a paediatricians guide
Facts and advice on fever in children - direct from paediatricians. For many parents, the 40-degree fever is a magical limit. For a pediatrician, there are no magic temperature limits. Here you will read about what to do when the child has a fever and how to distinguish dangerous fevers from harmless ones.
Breath
Baby with a common cold - how to comfort and help
The first time you as a parent have to take care of a baby with a cold comes with many questions. What to do? Will your baby cope with this? And it's probably not RS virus ... As a pediatrician, j ...
Breath
RS virus in infants - symptoms, infection and danger
RS virus is a cold virus that spreads in the community during the winter season. In principle, all children have had RS virus infection before they are three years old. You get a certain immunity after a thorough ...
Breath
Croup or false croup in children - symptoms and treatment
False croup manifests itself as a barking cough, often at night, in young children. Sometimes the children have difficulty breathing. The true body, diphtheria, is extinct in Sweden thanks to our excellent child…
Childhood diseases
Chickenpox in children - infection, course, incubation time
Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral disease with fever and fluid-filled blisters that affects virtually all unvaccinated children in Sweden. The blisters itch and can be found all over the body. Incubation ...
Breath
Influensa in children - symptoms and treatment
Influenza is a viral disease that in most cases gives up to a week of high fever, cough, cold symptoms and muscle aches (especially in older children and adults). Most children…
Breath
Pneumonia in children - symptoms and treatment
Pneumonia, or pneumonia, is an infection with bacteria or viruses in the lungs of children. Children with pneumonia often have a cough and fever, and can also have stomach ache, be tired, lethargic…
Children's ER symptom guides
Recurrent fever and infections in children - a poor immune system?
How often can a child be sick without a reason? Are recurrent fever and infections indicative of poor immune system? Many parents ask this question, not least forward ...
Childhood diseases
Sore throats and colds in children
Sore throat is a common symptom in children. Often this is due to colds. In case of high fever, sore throat, difficult to swallow and no cough or sniff, you can suspect throat flux. In case of sore throat ...
Breast-feeding
Gastroenteritis and breastfeeding
I have had some questions about stomach ailments and breastfeeding, which I was going to answer. You can read more about stomach sickness in general in this post. 1. I breastfeed and got stomach sick, what should I…
Children's ER symptom guides
Blisters in the mouths of children
Several viral diseases can cause blisters in the mouths of children. A single blister, often called aphthas, need not cause much trouble. But diseases with blisters throughout the entire mouth and throat can cause fright…
Diseases with rash
Babies
Nappy eczema, fungus around the buttocks and red baby rash
A red baby tail can be diaper dermatitis, fungus in the buttocks or just hot and humid. Here you can learn how to distinguish diaper dermatitis from fungi, what to do to treat and prevent redness…
Childhood diseases
Coxsackie blisters in children - hand foot and mouth disease
Autumn blisters, or hand foot and mouth disease, are a viral disease that causes blisters in the mouth and blisters or dark rashes on the hands and feet. Hence the English term. The Swedish be…
Childhood diseases
Swine pox (impetigo) in children - infection and treatment
Swine fever or impetigo is a bacterial infection of the skin that is common in children. They are often rashes around the mouth or nose of young children. Staphylococci or streptococci are the bacteria that…
Childhood diseases
Measles - symptoms, infection, treatment
Facts and advice on measles. Direct from paediatricians. Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases. The disease is unusual in Sweden, thanks to the vaccination. The measles was almost extinct…
Childhood diseases
Babies scabies - you'll get rid of it
Scab is a completely harmless rash in babies' scalp. It is completely harmless and does not bother the baby, who does not have to see it. If you as a parent want to get rid of your baby's milk sausage, you can read…
Children's ER symptom guides
Rashes and red spots in children - an image guide
Facts and advice about rashes and red spots in children. With pictures directly from paediatricians. When your child gets a rash or red spots, you of course wonder why. As a pediatrician, I can sometimes…
Childhood diseases
Chickenpox in children - infection, course, incubation time
Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral disease with fever and fluid-filled blisters that affects virtually all unvaccinated children in Sweden. The blisters itch and can be found all over the body. Incubation ...
Allergy
Eczema in children
Eczema in children is common and consists of dry, red, itchy skin areas. In infants, eczema often sits on the cheeks. With slightly larger children, they move to arm folds and kneecaps and…
Childhood diseases
Grazes on children
So when spring comes, the overalls have been adapted to the storage room and the children run with shorts on gravel pitches and lawns, at least our patch storage starts to go in furious t…
Allergy
Allergy
Baby's milk protein allergy and milk-free formula for infants
Milk protein allergy, also called cow milk allergy, milk allergy or cow milk protein allergy is a tricky condition that is often suspected in screaming infants. These kids can feel better…
Allergy
Pollen allergy in children - cunning and runny red eyes
Pollen allergy in children results in runny, itchy red eyes, tingling, sneezing and sometimes asthma. The symptoms occur during the pollen season, which is spring and summer. Pollen season Pollen season b…
Allergy
Eczema in children
Eczema in children is common and consists of dry, red, itchy skin areas. In infants, eczema often sits on the cheeks. With slightly larger children, they move to arm folds and kneecaps and…
Allergy
Prevent allergies by sucking on childrens pacifiers!
Last week I wrote about allergies - the phobias of the immune system. There I explain that allergies occur when the body's immune system does not really manage to learn that nuts, or pollen, or labr ...
Allergy
What is allergy? Read about allergies - the phobias of the immune system
What is an allergy really? You will learn this in this article. Our immune system is there to fight off invaders in the body. The immune system has powerful weapons in its ass ...
Breath
Breath
Whooping cough- symptoms, how it sounds, tests and treatment
Facts and advice on whooping cough. Direct from paediatricians. Standing next to a little baby with severe whooping cough is among the most worrysome thing I have ever been…
Breath
Baby with a common cold - how to comfort and help
The first time you as a parent have to take care of a baby with a cold comes with many questions. What to do? Will your baby cope with this? And it's probably not RS virus ... As a pediatrician, j ...
Breath
RS virus in infants - symptoms, infection and danger
RS virus is a cold virus that spreads in the community during the winter season. In principle, all children have had RS virus infection before they are three years old. You get a certain immunity after a thorough ...
Breath
Croup or false croup in children - symptoms and treatment
False croup manifests itself as a barking cough, often at night, in young children. Sometimes the children have difficulty breathing. The true body, diphtheria, is extinct in Sweden thanks to our excellent child…
Breath
Frantic or strained breathing - guide when your child has difficulty breathing
Children who have frantic breathing, strained breathing or find it difficult to breathe are a large and important group for the pediatric nurse to care for. Many have a cold or asthma, others have croup . Some have…
Breath
Influensa in children - symptoms and treatment
Influenza is a viral disease that in most cases gives up to a week of high fever, cough, cold symptoms and muscle aches (especially in older children and adults). Most children…
Breath
Pneumonia in children - symptoms and treatment
Pneumonia, or pneumonia, is an infection with bacteria or viruses in the lungs of children. Children with pneumonia often have a cough and fever, and can also have stomach ache, be tired, lethargic…
Breath
Coughs in children - a guide on diseases and home remedies
Coughs protect the lungs from infections. In principle, all healthy children who catch a cold are coughing. It is good, and an important part of the body's protection against infections. Coughing up mucus and viruses that can…
Breath
Common cold from asthma in children- symptoms and treatment
Cold asthma is common in preschool children. The symptoms are difficulty breathing and very hard bouts of coughing, often mucus, when the child has a cold. The cough then often sits for many weeks, or a month ...
blood Diseases
Food for children
Iron deficiency and anemia or anemia in infants, children and adolescents
Iron deficiency is the only nutritional deficiency that is fairly common in Swedish children today. The risk of iron deficiency and anemia or anemia is the reason why you should not heal for longer than u…
Diseases of the brain
child safety
Skull injuries and concussion when children hit their head
Facts and advice on skull injuries and concussion. Directly by paediatricians. Children often fall and hit themselves on the head. Here you will find out how you know when it is ok and when to seek help. And is…
Childhood diseases
TBE in children - symptoms, infection, treatment
What is TBE? Facts and advice about TBE in children. TBE is an abbreviation for Tick-Borne Encephalitis, or tick-borne meningitis. The virus usually infects us through tick bites, but k…
Childhood diseases
Measles - symptoms, infection, treatment
Facts and advice on measles. Direct from paediatricians. Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases. The disease is unusual in Sweden, thanks to the vaccination. The measles was almost extinct…
child safety
Never shake a baby
If you shake a baby violently, the head is thrown back and forth, the blood vessels under the hard cornea are torn off. Then brain bleeding is created which can be very large. This one…
Childhood diseases
Brain inflammation or meningitis in children - fever, neck stiffness, neck pain
Brain inflammation or meningitis as it is also called, is a feared infection in children. Bacterial meningitis is life-threatening and requires immediate care. Viral meningitis is so…
Children's ER symptom guides
Febrile seizures or chills in children
Febrile seizures affect about one in twenty children at some time during infancy. It is most common between 6 months and 5 years of age. Febrile seizures are very scary for the parent, but so…
Babies
When a newborn has trouble starting to breathe - does it lack oxygen?
In the mother's stomach, a baby does not need to be able to breathe; When the umbilical cord is cut, this no longer works and the newborn has to start breathing. In most cases…
Urine and poo
Childhood diseases
Urinary tract infection (uvi) in children and babies - symptoms and treatment
Urinary tract infection (often called uvi) is common in infants and also quite common in older children. Urinary tract infection with fever, or renal pelvic inflammation, can be dangerous and needs treatment…
Babies
Nappy eczema, fungus around the buttocks and red baby rash
A red baby tail can be diaper dermatitis, fungus in the buttocks or just hot and humid. Here you can learn how to distinguish diaper dermatitis from fungi, what to do to treat and prevent redness…
Childhood diseases
Constipation in children - what helps against hardness in the stomach
Constipation, or being hard in the stomach, is a very common problem in children of all ages. The exception is fully breastfed babies who are rarely constipated. On the other hand, it is common for ...
Childhood diseases
Wetting themselves - treatment of bed wetting and daily incontinence in children
It is common for children to pee. Most children are expected to be day-dry at age five and night-dry at age 6, but many will be earlier than that. And some later. That ki…
Children's ER symptom guides
Baby poo - what is normal? Green or slimy poo - what does it mean?
facts and advice on baby poo. Direct from paediatricians. Baby poo always raises questions. Is green poo a sign of illness. Can a baby have yellow poo? Should a baby have slimy poo
Babies
Potty training - how to become nappy free and when to stop with nappies
Facts and advice on potty training and getting the baby diaper-free from pediatricians. Pot training but it is more about creating a routine than a pure workout. It is often a long process to stop bleeding…
Stomach
Childhood diseases
Constipation in children - what helps against hardness in the stomach
Constipation, or being hard in the stomach, is a very common problem in children of all ages. The exception is fully breastfed babies who are rarely constipated. On the other hand, it is common for ...
Childhood diseases
Stomach pain in children - can it be appendicitis and what to do?
It is very common for children of preschool and school age to have stomach ache. Some have it more or less every day for a long time and some get it more urgently. This post is about it…
Food for children
Gluten intolerance or coeliac disease in children
Gluten intolerance, or coeliac disease, is a bowel disease in which the immune system destroys the intestinal mucosa if the person with coeliac disease eats gluten. Paediatricians don't usually use the word gluten allergy but it…
Children's ER symptom guides
Baby poo - what is normal? Green or slimy poo - what does it mean?
facts and advice on baby poo. Direct from paediatricians. Baby poo always raises questions. Is green poo a sign of illness. Can a baby have yellow poo? Should a baby have slimy poo
Food for children
Lactose intolerance in children- symptoms, tests and treatment
Facts and advice on lactose intolerance in children- direct from paediatricians. No baby is born with lactose intolerance. In school age children, some are lactose intolerant...
Allergy
Baby's milk protein allergy and milk-free formula for infants
Milk protein allergy, also called cow milk allergy, milk allergy or cow milk protein allergy is a tricky condition that is often suspected in screaming infants. These kids can feel better…
Childhood diseases
Colic in infants - gastric drops, acupuncture, what helps?
Facts and advice on colic from pediatricians and survival tips to colic parents. Infant colic affects between 3 and 30% of all infants. It's about babies screaming inconsolably several ...
Childhood diseases
Stomach flu or winter sickness in children - infection, incubation time
Facts and advice about stomach ailments direct from paediatricians. Diarrhea and vomiting in children is almost always due to gastric disease, a viral infection which is also called stomach flu, winter vomiting or gastr ...
Breast-feeding
Gastroenteritis and breastfeeding
I have had some questions about stomach ailments and breastfeeding, which I was going to answer. You can read more about stomach sickness in general in this post. 1. I breastfeed and got stomach sick, what should I…
Growth
Food for children
Healthy food for children
Facts and advice on wholesome food for children. Direct from paediatricians. It is not so difficult to give nutritious food to children. Meatballs, fish fingers, sausages and...
Food for children
Food for young children who eat poorly or refuse food
Children who eat poorly, often take after their parents. Pre-school children are often fussy over food and don't like much variety. Plenty of children (not all) think it is....
Food for children
BMI in children with obesity
Facts and advice about BMI and obesity in children. Directly by pediatricians. BMI is a measure that determines whether a child is normal or overweight. As children grow their normal BMI varies…
Children's ER symptom guides
Poor growth in children - investigate and interpret a growth curve
Suspicions of poor growth are common in children. In some way, the child has not followed their growth curve. As a paediatrician, I investigate many cases of poor weight gain or poor height growth and see many curves that are perfectly normal but that may have caused some concern.
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Trying to read the link "urinary tract infections" but it seems to be removed. Sin! Have a little girl here at home who got UVI. Otherwise think your blog is top! Mvh Ylva
Hey! Thanks for the information. Now the link is fixed!
I would really appreciate more info on fur allergy / hay allergy. How children are affected by growing up with fur animals In the house. We have ex guinea pigs that must have a lot of hay in their cage. When I googled this, I get dark! It feels like I'm a bad mom who brought this into my house! As if the children will become allergic to hay, guinea pigs and as a result also other animals etc. etc. How to notice that children become allergic. How long it can take to develop an allergy to fur animals, etc. Unfortunately, we live a little and the guinea pig's cage is in the seven-year-old's room, so she is exposed to these substances during both day and night. She is also a horse girl who rides once a week for six months. I wonder if the proximity to the guinea pigs and hay can trigger allergies to horses. Hay is in the stable. We did not have these thoughts when the animals were acquired but now I am worried about the slightest sneeze! Our children are 7 years, 3.5 years and 8 months. Perhaps one would have waited until the children got older to get pets. It feels so sad, since you got the animals when you thought about the positive effects, such as taking responsibility and having a small friend!
That said, more info on allergies and how it works! If there are animals that are "better" or "worse" etc.
Sincerely
Lift welding
I wonder if you could write a little about how to treat mild burns at home. eg fingertips and the like in children.
Of course it is easy for accidents to happen and of course you go in if there are major injuries but how do you do with small ones?
A few days ago, the first time we had a small accident, I received many good advice on what to do, all different (!?!), Some of whom gave advice were healthcare professionals…
thanks for a great blog with great useful info.
Such a post is on the list of posts that will be written soon!