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Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Aoife Fox

Feeling weak at the knees?

April 27, 2020 0

He’s always sick: ENT infections and immunodeficiency

Alasdair Munro

Community paediatrics / Emergency / General paediatrics / Immunology / Infectious Diseases

Is the child in front of you always getting sick?

August 19, 2019 0

Transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy

Clementine David

Community paediatrics / General paediatrics / Immunology

Cite this article as: David, C. Transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.17301 A 14-month-old boy is brought to your GP clinic by his mother with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections. His mother reports that he attends full time day care and he is ‘constantly sick.’ You note that one…

February 27, 2019 0

Kawasaki’s Disease

Alyssa Courtney

Cardiology / Dermatology / General paediatrics / Immunology / Infectious Diseases / Rheumatology

Diagnosing Kawasaki’s is not as easy as you think…

July 20, 2017

Food allergy week

Tessa Davis

Immunology

Cite this article as: Davis, T. Food allergy week, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2015. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.7444For those who missed our recent Food Allergy Week – here are all the posts in the one place:

September 10, 2015 0

Does consuming peanuts in infancy reduce the likelihood of allergy?

Tessa Davis

General paediatrics / Immunology

Cite this article as: Davis, T. Does consuming peanuts in infancy reduce the likelihood of allergy?, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2015. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.6727In a previous study, the authors of this paper found that Jewish children in the UK had 10 times the rate of peanut allergy as Jewish children in Israel. This also correlated with…

March 5, 2015 0

Community needlestick injury in children

Henry Goldstein

Emergency / General paediatrics / Immunology / Infectious Diseases

Cite this article as: Goldstein, H. Community needlestick injury in children, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2014. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.5241Alfie, 6, is playing at local playground under Mum’s watchful eye. He goes down the slide and jumps off, landing on his hands and feet. He starts to cry and shows his Mum a syringe lying in…

March 10, 2014 4

Egg allergy – predictors of future tolerance

Mike South

Immunology

Cite this article as: South, M. Egg allergy – predictors of future tolerance, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2013. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.4830Most young children with egg allergy become tolerant to egg over time. This report from the Melbourne HealthNuts study showed that nearly half of children with oral challenge-confirmed raw egg allergy had resolved by age…

December 31, 2013 0

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