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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.
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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.
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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...
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Dehydration is the excessive loss of water from body tissues accompanied by an imbalance in essential electrolytes, such as sodium, potassium, and chloride.
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Dehydration is the loss of water and salts essential for normal body function.
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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...
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Dehydration is the loss of water and salts that are essential for normal body function.
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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.
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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]).
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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...
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