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Uncommon Infant and Newborn Problems

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Summary

It can be scary when your baby is sick, especially when it is not an everyday problem like a cold or a fever. You may not know whether the problem is serious or how to treat it. If you have concerns about your baby's health, call your health care provider right away.

Learning information about your baby's condition can help ease your worry. Do not be afraid to ask questions about your baby's care. By working together with your health care provider, you make sure that your baby gets the best care possible.

Start Here

  • Getting the Most From a Doctor's Visit (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Sick Baby? When to Seek Medical Attention (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish

Diagnosis and Tests

  • Chest Pain in Infants and Children (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
  • Feeding Problems in Infants and Children (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
  • Genital Problems in Infants (Female) (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish

Treatments and Therapies

  • How to Give Your Child Medicine (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
  • Infantile pyloric stenosis - Series (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

Related Issues

  • Finding a Doctor for Your New Baby (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • When Your Baby's in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • When Your Child's in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish

Specifics

  • Anemia in the Newborn (Merck & Co., Inc.) Also in Spanish
  • Biliary Atresia (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Biliary Atresia From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) Also in Spanish
  • Common Childhood Orthopedic Conditions (Nemours Foundation)
  • Failure to Thrive (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Fetal Macrosomia (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
  • Intussusception (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Laryngomalacia (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Low Calcium in Babies (Hypocalcemia) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Neutropenia (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Pyloric Stenosis (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Reflux in Infants: MedlinePlus Health Topic From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine) Also in Spanish
  • Repeated Infections in Children (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
  • Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn (TTN) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish

Clinical Trials

  • ClinicalTrials.gov: Infant, Newborn, Diseases From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

  • Article: Global, regional, and national burden of neonatal diseases attributable to particulate...
  • Article: Enteral Nutrition in Neonatal Cholestasis: An Up-to-Date Overview.
  • Article: Complications in hospitalized neonates born to mothers with HDP subtypes: a...
  • Uncommon Infant and Newborn Problems -- see more articles

Find an Expert

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development From the National Institutes of Health Also in Spanish
  • Find a Pediatrician or Pediatric Specialist (American Academy of Pediatrics) Also in Spanish
  • KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation)

Patient Handouts

  • Brief resolved unexplained event -- BRUE (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Excessive crying in infants (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Failure to thrive (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Hyperglycemia - infants (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Neonatal sepsis (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Neutropenia - infants (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Vitamin K deficiency bleeding of the newborn (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

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Uncommon Infant and Newborn Problems

MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

  • Anemia caused by low iron - infants and toddlers
  • Brief resolved unexplained event -- BRUE
  • Caput succedaneum
  • Craniotabes
  • Excessive crying in infants
  • Exchange transfusion
  • Exchange transfusion - series
  • Failure to thrive
  • Fontanelles - bulging
  • Fontanelles - enlarged
  • Fontanelles - sunken
  • Frontal bossing
  • Fussy or irritable child
  • Home apnea monitor use - infants
  • Hyperglycemia - infants
  • Infantile pyloric stenosis - Series
  • Intussusception - children
  • Low calcium level - infants
  • Neonatal hypothyroidism
  • Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
  • Neonatal sepsis
  • Neutropenia - infants
  • Polycythemia - newborn
  • Pyloric stenosis in infants
  • Spasmus nutans
  • Tongue tie
  • Tracheoesophageal fistula and esophageal atresia repair
  • Tracheomalacia - acquired
  • Transient tachypnea - newborn
  • Vitamin K deficiency bleeding of the newborn

Related Health Topics

  • Baby Health Checkup
  • Birth Defects
  • Birth Weight
  • Common Infant and Newborn Problems
  • Infant and Newborn Care
  • Infant and Newborn Development
  • Infant and Newborn Nutrition
  • Medicines and Children
  • Premature Babies
  • Rh Incompatibility
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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