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There is no treatment for this disease. Patients can take acetaminophen to reduce fever.
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There is no drug treatment for rubella. Bed rest, fluids, and acetaminophen for pain and temperatures over 102°F(38.9°C) are usually all that is necessary.Babies born with suspected CRS are isolated and cared for only by people who are s...
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There is no drug treatment for rubella. Bed rest, fluids, and acetaminophen for pain and temperatures over 102°F(38.9°C) are usually all that is necessary.Babies born with suspected CRS are isolated and cared for only by people who are s...
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Rather than vaccinating a healthy child against rubella, some alternative practitioners recommend allowing the child to contract the disease naturally at the age of five or six years, since the immunity conferred by contracting the disease natural...
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Detailed information on supportive (palliative) care for children Supportive, or palliative, care is care aimed at comfort versus cure and treatment. The decision to accept palliative care versus aggressive treatment is often a decision parents struggle with. It is an acceptance of a poor prognosis and an opportunity to provide a very special kind of care to a loved one. The dying process requires as much care and respect as the other stages in life. It is only through this care and respect that parents can truly "be there" for their child. It is a change of direction with new goals and new hopes: a peaceful, pain-free death in the presence of loved ones.
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Isolation refers to the precautions that are taken in the hospital to prevent the spread of an infectious agent from an infected or colonized patient to susceptible persons.Isolation practices are designed to minimize the transmission of infection...
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