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Sick children are usually cared for at home. When should you take your child to the doctor? How do you treat common conditions at home? We tell you how.

Prepare your child for visit to doc

A visit to the doctor can be scary for young children, especially if they're going to a new doctor.

How to treat bedwetting

Your child is wetting his bed and you don't know what to do. Medical treatment is not the only strategy that helps. Here are some handy hints.

Hair-raising facts about lice

Revulsion and alarm. These are the typical first reactions of parents whose children come home from school with head lice.

Handling childhood seizures

Children have seizures for reasons ranging from high fevers to underlying medical conditions. If your child has a seizure, here's what to do.

Infant diarrhoea: take action

Hundreds of children die every die as a result of diarrhoea. There is fortunately a lot parents can do to prevent a tragedy.

Foundation helps kids with cancer

The CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation assists parents of children with cancer.

Many benefits of sign language

Sign language opens many doors for parents and their hearing-impaired children, writes an expert.

First aid

Put together your own natural first aid kit, packed with herbal, aromatic and homeopathic remedies that can fix common ailments quickly and effectively.

Treating a dehydrated child

It doesn't take much for a child to become dehydrated. Here's how to check whether your child is dehydrated or not and how you should treat it.

Treating your child's eczema?

Some children may not outgrow eczema and will need continuous home treatment. Follow these handy homecare tips.

Should my sick child stay at home?

Your kid wakes up feeling lousy and complains of a stuffy head and sore throat. Should you keep him home or send him off to school?

What to do about nappy rash

There are several causes of nappy rash, but home treatment will help clear up the condition.

Moet jou kind dokter toe?

Is jy met vakansie in die middel van nêrens en bekommerd oor ‘n siek kind? Wanneer moet jy jou kind dokter toe neem?

Stock your first aid kit

Every household should have a well stocked first aid kit. Keep one in your home and one in your car. We show you how to compile your kit.

Cerebral palsy: parent guide

About one in every 400 babies is born with cerebral palsy. How much do you know about this condition? Would you cope if this happened to your child?

Headaches and your child

Headaches are just as real for children as they are for adults. A headache expert offers advice on how to deal with them.

Help for head lice

Every school has a head lice problem at some stage. Here is how to deal with it quickly and effectively.

Dealing with bedwetting

Bedwetting or nocturnal enuresis as it is known by people in white coats that had a bit of Latin in their first year in Med school, is a problem doctors deal with regularly.

How to handle bedwetting

Bedwetting is a problem that doctors deal with on a regular basis in their practices. A GP gives advice on how to deal with it at home.

Cure for swimmer's ear

Ear canal infection frequently occurs in children who swim a great deal. We list the symptoms and give you tips on how to handle it at home.

Head lice guest expert

Head lice affects millions of school children every year. Guest expert Professor Heinz Mehlhorn, one of the world’s leading experts on parasites, answers your questions.