Paediatrics for Primary Care (and anyone else)

With wheeze in children becoming a major presentation again, it feels like a good time to explore the issue of deciding whether a child has ...

On the run-up to Christmas, this site will be delivering some rather minimalist FOAMed.  Instead of comprehensive explanations, there will b...

 This bronchiolitis season is going to be different.  While SARS-CoV2 virus does not seem to be a significant cause of wheeze in children  (...

If you’re unsure about how to manage viral wheeze in children, you’re not alone.  There is much confusion about this common paediatric pre...

We've come a long way in terms of reducing unnecessary tests in paediatrics.  It is within my career that it was standard to obtain a c...

In the previous post, I covered how best to make a diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).  Anyone who has the pleasure of w...

When a child or young person has one or more wheezy episode, there are various possible causes.  The vast majority of paediatric wheeze is ...

In my formative postgaduate years as a doctor, I was told by more than one mentor that antibiotics were a good treatment for children who we...

Every now and then, a clinician will go to see a child who appears to have increased work of breathing and is well (in the way that children...

There was interesting debate this week about using inhalers for bronchiolitis.  The interesting features included how heated it became (ther...

In the previous post, I concentrated on giving the correct label to the child under the age of five with recurrent episodes of wheeze .  ...