This review provides an overview of the use of antihistamines in children. We discuss types of histamine receptors and their mechanism of action, absorption, onset and duration of action of ...

Department of Paediatric Neurosciences, Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and Saint Thomas' Foundation NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Charlie B R Fairhurst, Department of Paediatric ...

Determining severity of illness and undertaking an adequate risk assessment is a fundamental part of acute paediatric practice. This review highlights physiology, communication, heuristics and ...

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Correspondence to Dr C Gale, Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Campus, 369 Fulham Road, London SW10 9NH, UK; christopher.gale{at}imperial.ac.uk Electronic data are ...

1 Academic Unit of Child Health, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr David King, Academic ...

Correspondence to Dr Eva Germovsek, UCL Institute of Child Health, Inflammation, Infection and Rheumatology Section, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK; eva.germovsek.11{at}ucl.ac.uk The ...

Correspondence to Dr Aoife Ryan, Department of General Paediatrics, Royal Hospital for Children, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; aoife.ryan{at}nhs.scot If you ...

In paediatric practice feeding, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties are present in up to 1% of children. Dysphagia is any disruption to the swallow sequence that results in compromise to the ...

The EATERS mnemonic is a novel method for taking an allergy focused clinical history. It provides a degree of certainty for diagnosing food allergy and can be used in both IgE and non IgE mediated ...

1 Department of Nephrology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Chemical Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK ...

Approaching discussions and introducing the idea of dysmorphology to parents and families can be perceived as difficult and even daunting by health professionals resulting in uneasiness in how best to ...