Tips for Kids

We get asked the above question weekly in the ER. Parents arrive with the history that they think their child swallowed a foreign body. We as ER physicians sometimes will get a call from concerned parents, and it is always difficult to know the outcome straight away The reason for their suspicion is normally associated…

With the seasons changing, we’ve seen an increase of children with fever in the Emergency Room. This fever landscape is sometimes very difficult to navigate and parents should have a plan as to how to react to a fever. Most kids will have a fever illness every year, and parents WILL have to deal with…