Childhood illness chart

CHILDHOOD ILLNESS CHART
SYMPTOMS
INCUBATION;
TREATMENT
CONTAGIOUSNESS
DURATION
Frequent coughing. Labored breathing, Possible Consult your doctor. If the child has fever, make sure he rests, give him plenty of juice and use a Fever. Discomfort. Itching. Pink or red spots on Consult your doctor. Rest is essential. Relieve the chest, stomach and back, which may spread to itching with calamine lotion or oatmeal powder the scalp and face. Spots change to blisters, which baths. Trim the child’s nails. Keep his utensils and Sneezing, stuffed or runny nose, sore throat, If the child has a fever, make sure he rests, give him watery eyes. Possible cough, chills, low fever plenty of juice and use a vaporizer. Keep him warm and avoid chilling. Consult doctor if the symptoms persist or worsen. Labored breathing, hoarseness, loud hacking Consult your doctor. Use a vaporizer. Keep the Ranges in severity. Sudden onset of watery Severe complications may cause hospitalization. diarrhea (frequently bloody), abdominal cramps, sometimes with vomiting and a low-grade fever. May have facial rash followed by a lacelike rash No specific treatment. Acetaminophen may relieve on the trunk, arms, and legs. Sometimes with sore some symptoms. Pregnant women should not be throat, runn nose, and low grade fever before the rash begins. Rash may disappear and reappear Chills. Low fever (sometimes high). Runny nose, If the child has a fever, make sure he rests, give him painful swelling of glands behind the ears. plenty of juice and use a vaporizer. Keep the child’s Usually there is a slightly raised fine red rash, hands clean. Launder his linen and clothes which begins on the face, then spreads over the Fever, sore throat and the appearance of small Exclusion is NOT necessary. Cover mouths when blister-like sores in and around the mouth, on sneezing or coughing, dispose of tissues with throat Blood-sucking insect that lives on the scalp. Examine all people regularly after outbreak, children allowed back after first treatment. Launder clothing/bedding in hot water (130 F) for a minimum of 20 minutes. Vacuum carpet and furniture. Chills, drowsiness, weakness, sudden high fever, Consult the doctor. If the child has fever, make sure headache, achiness, sore throat, no appetite, he rests, give him plenty of juice and use a vaporizer. SYMPTOMS
INCUBATION;
TREATMENT
CONTAGIOUSNESS
DURATION
Early symptoms include low fever, slight hacking Consult your doctor. If the child’s eyes are sensitive cough, fatigue, discomfort, eye irritation. Around to light, keep the room dim. If he has fever, make the 4th day, fever and cough worsen and a rash of sure he rests, give him plenty of juice and use a faint pink spots appear on the neck and cheek, then vaporizer. Keep his utensils and dishes separate. Swollen glands on one or both sides of the jaw. Consult your doctor. Rest is essential. Apply cool compresses to the cheeks. Do not give the child citrus juices. Keep his utensils and dishes separate. Scratchy filling in one or both eyes, and redness in See your doctor. Use good personal hygiene, clean the whites of the eyes. Possible discharge gluing soiled articles with hot soapy water. Disinfect Coughing, fever, rapid breathing, discomfort, Consult your doctor. Make sure the child rests. Give chills, weakness. Possible nausea and vomiting. him plenty of juice. Use a vaporizer. Keep in on a Sudden fever lasting several days. After fever is gone, a rash of flat or raised spots appears on the chest, stomach or back, then spreads to the rest of the body Caused by a mite that burrows into the skin. See your doctor. May return to daycare one day after Until all mites and eggs are Thread-like lesions (3/8” long) usually between treatment. Dry clean or launder garments, bed linens fingers, elbows, palms, wrists, armpits, buttocks and other things touched with 48 hours prior to and genitalia. Itch especially at night. treatment. Non cleanable items should be placed in Painful sore throat. Fever, nausea and vomiting. Consult your doctor. Make sure the child rests. Within 3 days a fine rash appears on the neck, Give him plenty of fluids. Check other family armpit and groin, then spreads over the body. Painful sore throat. Fever. Nausea and vomiting. Consult your doctor. If the child has fever, make sure he rests and give him plenty of juice. Check May begin with “cold-like” symptoms which progress to a cough. After several days severe coughing fits may cause the child to vomit or lose their breath.

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