Practice Paediatrics questions with answers and explanations.
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Congenital heart disease is a structural or functional cardiac abnormality present from birth.
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Kawasaki disease is an acute childhood vasculitis associated with prolonged fever and risk of coronary complications.
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Nephrotic syndrome in childhood is proteinuria, hypoalbuminaemia and oedema, often steroid sensitive in children.
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Developmental milestone is an age-linked functional skill used to monitor child development.
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Oral rehydration solution is a glucose-electrolyte solution that promotes intestinal sodium and water absorption.
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Measles is a highly contagious viral illness with fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis and rash.
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Pertussis is a bacterial respiratory infection causing paroxysmal cough and possible apnoea in infants.
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Intussusception is telescoping of one bowel segment into another, causing episodic pain and obstruction.
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Acute gastroenteritis is acute diarrhoeal illness with risk of dehydration, especially in infants and young children.
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Severe acute malnutrition is a condition identified by very low anthropometry, oedema or other accepted criteria and associated with high clinical risk.
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Croup is an upper-airway viral illness characterised by barking cough and inspiratory stridor.
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Febrile seizure is a seizure associated with fever in a young child without central nervous system infection or another defined cause.
