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Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Learning Center

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The prognosis for a child with hand-foot-mouth disease is excellent. The child is usually completely recovered within about a week of the start of the illness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
The prognosis for a child with hand-foot-and-mouth disease is excellent. The child is usually completely better within about a week of the start of the illness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dehydration means your body does not have as much water and fluids as it should. Dehydration can be caused by losing too much fluid, not drinking enough water or fluids, or both. Vomiting and diarrhea are common causes. Infants and children are mo...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 8, 2009
Dehydration is the excessive loss of water from body tissues accompanied by an imbalance in essential electrolytes, such as sodium, potassium, and chloride.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Dehydration is the loss of water and salts essential for normal body function.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dehydration is the excessive loss of water from the body. Water can be lost through urine, sweat, feces, respiration, and through the skin. Symptoms of dehydration in order of severity are: thirst, nausea , chills, clammy skin, increased heart rat...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
Dehydration is the loss of water and salts that are essential for normal body function.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
A febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child triggered by a fever. These convulsions occur without any brain or spinal cord infection or other nervous system (neurologic) cause.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 2, 2008
Febrile seizures are convulsions of sudden onset due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain that is caused by fever . Fever is a condition in which body temperature is elevated above normal (generally above 100.4°F [38°C]).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Febrile seizures are the most common type of convulsions in infants or small children and are triggered by fever. It is not in the strict sense an epilepsy syndrome but rather a symptom of a febrile illness, and it normally affects children betwee...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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