Meningitis awareness week
THIS week is Meningitis Awareness Week and babyworld will be featuring the condition throughout this week. Meningitis is every parent’s nightmare. It can kill within hours and no one knows where or...
View ArticleSuspected Meningitis Should Be Treated With Antibiotics
Many babies and young children suffering from suspected meningitis aren’t being given drugs soon enough, a new report suggests. Government advice recommends that GPs who see youngsters first and...
View ArticleSpastic quadraplegic cerebral palsy
Deborah Orbell, whose son Craig had spastic quadraplegic cerebral palsy, says keeping positive can make the world of difference to how you cope with a situation. It was touch and go for a while Craig...
View ArticleExplaining Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia, also known as developmental co-ordination disorder, is a disability that affects movement and co-ordination. It is thought to be caused by a disruption in the way messages from the brain are...
View ArticleRaising a child with autism, asperger’s syndrome and ADHD
Elaine Carey talks about autism and bringing up two boys who lie on the Autistic Spectrum which include Asperger’s syndrome and ADHD. Diagnosing autism for my boys I have three children, two boys and...
View ArticleMeningitis : Illness diagnosis chart
Your child has a fever, and a rash but the glass-test is positive Meningitis is the biggest fear of all parents. The terror of meningitis has been fuelled by the intense media publicity surrounding the...
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