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Most children have a mild respiratory illness or fever caused by a viral infection about one to four weeks before developing symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis.
Untreated, this infection can damage or destroy the heart valves or cause a stroke. Antibiotics may be recommended before dental care to prevent this infection.
If you have a "strep'' infection, you should keep using this medicine for at least 10 days. ... Children weighing 10 kilograms (kg) or more—Dose ... child are using ...
Pinworm infection occurs most often in school-age children, and the tiny (microscopic) eggs are easily spread from child to child. Treatment involves oral drugs ...
Septic arthritis. Infection within bones can spread into a nearby joint. Impaired growth. Osteomyelitis can affect the growth of bones in children. This is ...
Strep throat and scarlet fever are caused by an infection with streptococcus (strep-toe-KOK-us) bacteria. Rheumatic fever most often affects children ages 5 to ...
A surgical site infection (SSI) is one that happens after surgery in the part of the body where the surgery was done. Surgical site infections can sometimes be ...
It's usually spread by skin-to-skin contact. At-risk populations include groups such as high school wrestlers, child care workers and people who live in crowded ...
Healthy adults usually recover from infection with E. coli O157:H7 within a week. Young children and older adults have a greater risk of developing a life- ...
Complications · Dehydration. Areas where the skin has shed lose fluids. · Blood infection (sepsis). Sepsis occurs when bacteria from an infection enter the ...
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