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What D.D. do you suggest for a child of 4 months with R.D,fever,cough,lymphocytosis 90% ,neutrophil 6%,total count 16,000 ,esr 90mm ,CXR,bilateral mottled shadow ,PPD -ve ,PBF no abnormal cells ,bonemarrow no abnormal cells ,clinically few notes and hepatospleenomegally. Poor response to AT therapy ,although use of addtional steroid ,reduced ESR to 30 .
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Need information on how to distinguish between viral illnesses and bacterial illnesses.
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To,dr.irashah. Madam,kindly clarify about the use of azithromycin in typhoid fever and what is the duration of treatment and what is the dosage? You have mentioned about azithromycin in your article .thank you .dr.n.p.viswanathan
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Doctors IS Tuberculosis currable in a 4 yr child and what is the precaution to be taken and what whould he eat in lunch and dinner. Thanks
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My 14 m girl has relapse of UTI with E.coli & klebsiella under prophylaxy with Cephalexin. Sonographic and conventional VCUG study was normal except Cystitist. her BW is 9 kg .Her bith W was 3160 g . she can not tolerate nitrofurantoin. Would You please consult me , how I can treat her UTI. Many Thanks R. Bekhradi, GP
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A breast feeding mother having atwo month infant develops Chicken pox.How is the infant and mother to be managed?Is Aclovir to be given to the mother?Is the infant to be given VZIG/Acyclovir?
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1.Is mumps recurrent? 2.Is infant botulism can be blamed as acause of floppiness for achild who survive the acute illness and for how long its effect will remain?
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My child age-9 months has been having fever on and off since 2 months.Initially we thought it was malaria and got her treated with anti malarials but the fever came back after 10 days ,then we trated her for enteric fever with cefuroxime axetil for 14 days but on the 13th day she developed fever again.urine routine showed pus cell over 25 hpf .kindly guide us on what treatment to give.our pediatrician is not sure why the fever is occuring.
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Please let me the prognosis for a 9 year old child with a diagnosis of GLANDULAR FEVER .I donot have details except that antibodies to CMV are raised . does this mean it is infectious mononucleosis caused by EBV /CMV virus ,Are there long term implicatuions , if so what can the parents look our for. the doctors here do not share information and i would like to help my friend with more than just reassurances and thanks for a good site . It has brought back memories of my student days so many years ago . I would also look for articles on psychosomatic manifestations / chronic stress symptoms and mental health issues of children in your website . thanks again sincerely sandhya
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What is a soft spot on the head of a young child and what is it's significance?does a hit on this part make some difference?
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Dear sir,how does sickle cell protect a person from severe malarial infcetion.why is it that this is only posible for heterogenous not for those who are sickle cell anemia(homogenous).whats the mechanism thank you
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Can acyclovir be given to a child who already shows vesicular lesions, may be in third or fourth day of the disease-chicken pox? if yes, what dose? Does acyclovir reduce the severity of Rash outbreak and what are the chances that the child may get second episode of chicken pox later on in his/her life due to first abortive episode?
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ASOM can present as diarrhoea in children.How should we treat such cases as antibiotics used to treat ASOM can also cause diarrhoea?
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How important is the role of determination of Adenosine Dea- -minase as a diagnostic aid for Childhood Tuberculosis ?
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A child with ramsy hunt syndrome what is the treatment ? 1-steroid 2-ab 3-cyclovir
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