Children Flashcards
Respiratory symptoms + vomiting + mental changes +/- seizure/ coma
Reye syndrome
Pallor + drowsiness + fever
Meningitis
Pallor + abdominal pain (severe and intermittent) + inactivity
Intussusception
Malaise + fever + poly arthritis (flitting) +/- rash +/- chorea
Rheumatic fever
Bronchiolitis
Pyloric stenosis
Neonate: vomiting after first feeds + drooling + abdominal distension
Oesophageal or duodenal atresia
Malaise + pallor + oral problems (gingival hypertrophy, bleeding, ulceration )
Acute myeloid leukaemia
Malaise + pallor + bone pain
Acute lymphatic leukaemia
Abdominal pain + pallor + a/n/v
Acute appendicitis
Abdominal pain + malar flush + fever + URTI
Mesenteric adenitis
During gastroenteritis epidemic: extreme malaise + diarrhoea + severe abdominal pain
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
Drowsiness + tachypnoea + chest wall recession
Pneumonia
Drowsiness + fever + purpuric rash
Meningococcal infection
Extreme lethargy + drooling saliva + snoring stridor
Acute epiglottitis