Common Illnesses of Infants and Children

 

• • VIRAL VERSUS BACTERIAL INFECTIONS/ USE OF ANTIBIOTICS
  • FEVER
  VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS/COLDS/COUGH

• VOMITING AND DIARRHEA
• ASTHMA/REACTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE (RAD)

ADDITIONAL READING:

• Caring For Your Baby And Young Child: Academy of Pediatrics; Stephen Shelov, Editor Bantam Doubleday; Revised 1998
• American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Symptoms:  The Official Home Reference, Birth Through Adolescence; Stephen Shelov, Editor, Villard Books, 1997
• Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems; Richard Ferber, Simon & Schuster, 1986
• What Every Baby Knows; T. Berry Brazleton, Ballentine Books, 1988