This month‘s newsletter has some helpful resources for parents of children of all ages. Also a reminder from Islington borough of London that children should be at school if they have minor illnesses. Everyone gets muddled up with HSP and ITP so we’ve put together a comparison table. Do leave comments below…
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by Alex Argyropoulos this month: risk, recognition and management. Surgical update on hernias, the difficulties of wearing masks for people who stutter and a helping hand from Harry the Hound for children worried about going back to school after covid.
Possible causes of macrocephaly this month. Also the start of a new series on causes of coca-cola coloured urine and updates on safeguarding CPD requirements and the terminology of children “in care”. Do leave comments below:
With thanks to Dr David Gardiner, one of our current paediatric FY2 doctors at Homerton University Hospital, for updating us on HUS.
News story in 1999News story from 2018. Less than 3% of patients die of HUS but 20-30% experience adverse renal outcomes. Think about it in children with bloody diarrhoea and, often, no fever.
Presentation:
Profuse diarrhoea that typically turns bloody after 1-3 days
Abdominal pain (crampy)
Vomiting
Fever (sometimes)
Oedema
Reduced urine output (abrupt onset) but also polyuria/normal urine output (rarer)
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