What's That Rash?
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-600-60513-3 (ISBN)
Description
This guide for parents looks at how to identify and treat conditions that may affect a child's skin. Incubation period, symptoms, diagnosis and medical treatments are explained, and there is advice on when to call the doctor, as well as extended coverage on hard-to-identify and dangerous rashes. At-a-glance diagnosis charts in every chapter refer readers to possible causes. Colour photographs and artworks throughout illustrate the appearance and site of the rash. The book includes suggestions for complementary and self-help treatments.
This guide for parents looks at how to identify and treat conditions that may affect a child's skin. Incubation period, symptoms, diagnosis and medical treatments are explained, and there is advice on when to call the doctor, as well as extended coverage on hard-to-identify and dangerous rashes. At-a-glance diagnosis charts in every chapter refer readers to possible causes. Colour photographs and artworks throughout illustrate the appearance and site of the rash. The book includes suggestions for complementary and self-help treatments.
This guide for parents looks at how to identify and treat conditions that may affect a child's skin. Incubation period, symptoms, diagnosis and medical treatments are explained, and there is advice on when to call the doctor, as well as extended coverage on hard-to-identify and dangerous rashes. At-a-glance diagnosis charts in every chapter refer readers to possible causes. Colour photographs and artworks throughout illustrate the appearance and site of the rash. The book includes suggestions for complementary and self-help treatments.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-600-60513-3 (9780600605133)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Prisca Middlemiss is a medical journalist, specializing in family and child health, and a regular contributor to one of Britain's best-read parent-and-baby magazines Practical Parenting. She is the author of The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Child Health (1998).
Prisca Middlemiss is a medical journalist, specializing in family and child health, and a regular contributor to one of Britain's best-read parent-and-baby magazines Practical Parenting. She is the author of The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Child Health (1998).
Prisca Middlemiss is a medical journalist, specializing in family and child health, and a regular contributor to one of Britain's best-read parent-and-baby magazines Practical Parenting. She is the author of The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Child Health (1998).
Content
Newborn and babies; rashes with fever; rashes spread by skin contact; non-contagious rashes.