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![]() ![]() Diverticular disease and diverticulitis: Treating acute diverticulitis. "Sigmoid diverticulitis mimicking cholecystitis" a clinical challenge. Pulzato I, Boero E, Shaipi E, Cardinale L. Colonoscopy for Diagnostic Evaluation and Interventions to Prevent Recurrence After Acute Left-Sided Colonic Diverticulitis: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Qaseem A, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Lin JS, Fitterman N, Shamliyan T, Wilt TJ, et al. Role of dietary habits in the prevention of diverticular disease complications: A systematic review. Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of diverticulitis. Diverticulosis today: unfashionable and still under-researched. AGA clinical practice update on medical management of colonic diverticulitis: Expert review. Diverticulitis: a comprehensive review with usual and unusual complications. Onur MR, Akpinar E, Karaosmanoglu AD, Isayev C, Karcaaltincaba M. The burden of diverticular disease and its complications: West versus east. ![]() Symptoms & causes of diverticular diseases. When it comes to your child’s health and the health of all the other children at school or daycare, it’s better to be safe than sorry.National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. If you’re on the fence, call your doctor for advice you can always take your child in a bit later if you get the go-ahead. But a really bad cough not only makes it hard for a child to learn or play, it also warrants a call to the doctor, as does breathing that sounds or looks different from usual. If we kept every child with a cold home during the winter months, there would be a lot of empty classrooms. Coughing that won’t stop - or anything different about your child’s breathing. Ask a doctor before using this medicine if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Ask your doctor before using Imodium A-D to treat diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. Keep them home and call your doctor instead.Ĥ. Ask a doctor or pharmacist if it is safe for you to use this medicine if you have: a fever mucus in your stools liver disease or. Pain is always something you want to keep an eye on. But if the pain is anything more than mild, don’t do it. ![]() If your child has a sore knee or a mild headache but is otherwise acting okay, it’s likely fine to give some medicine and send them off. You do not want to be the parent responsible for an outbreak of norovirus at your school or daycare, trust me.ģ. Some viruses, such as norovirus, can be contagious for an extra day or so. The same 20-24 hour rule applies, although it’s worth checking with your doctor for advice. It’s unfair all around - to the child and the school or daycare - to send a child with vomiting or diarrhea no matter how well they might look to you. ![]() I’d suggest going by how your child is acting if they are acting sick, keeping them home and keeping an eye on them might be a good idea.Ģ. But as a parent I’ve certainly been called by a school nurse to pick up a child with a temp of 100, and often it can be the sign of a brewing illness. What if your child has a temp of 99.9 or 100? Officially that’s not a fever. That is very reasonable, but for practical purposes I think 20 hours is okay, meaning that if by lunchtime the fever is gone, I think they are okay to go back the next day. Most schools say that a child should be fever-free for 24 hours before going back (no fair giving ibuprofen or acetaminophen regularly to tamp it down). There’s just no way you can know whether things will get better or worse - and while giving them medicine might bring the fever down, it won’t stop them from being contagious. Not only are fevers a sign of some sort of infection, it also usually means that they are shedding germs right and left. Any temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit (38° Centigrade) is a fever, and children shouldn’t go to school with fevers. Here are symptoms that mean your child must stay home:ġ. But sometimes kids don’t look so bad and the decision is less clear. Your kid looks awful and you can’t imagine sitting them up, let alone sending them anywhere. So it’s a decision that should be made as wisely as possible. But besides the fact that it’s not practical to keep a child home for every sniffle, keeping a child home can be a real hardship for working parents - and it means that a child is missing out on learning and other activities. If your child is sick, of course they shouldn’t go to school or daycare. Follow me on Twitter a decision every parent faces regularly: whether or not to keep a sick child home from school. ![]()
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