Common Causes of Paediatric Illness Flashcards
What are the common causes of developmental delay?
- Neglect
- Cerebral palsy / HIE
- Iron deficiency
What are the common causes of learning difficulties?
- Hearing impairment
- Visual impairment
- Low IQ
What are the common causes of poor social skills / repetitive behaviour?
- ASD
What are the common causes of feeding problems, sleep disorder, excessive crying, aggressive behaviour and hyperactivity?
- Eating disorders - anorexia, bulimia
- Anxiety
- ADHD
What are the common causes of chronic / unexplained symptoms?
- Somatisation
What are the common causes of dysmorphism?
- Down’s
- Turner’s
- Noonan’s
What are the common causes of neonatal collapse?
- Sepsis
- Congenital heart disease
What are the common causes of neonatal jaundice?
- Physiological - worried parents
- Breast milk jaundice
- Sepsis
- Feeding difficulties
What are the common causes of neonatal rashes?
- Nappy rash
- Milia - small, raised bump on the skin filled with keratin
- Erythema toxicum
- Mongolian blue spot - type of pigmented birthmark
What are the common causes of neonatal jittery baby?
- Hypoglycaemia
What are the common causes of neonatal seizures / abnormal neurology?
- Hypoglycaemia
- HIE
What are the common causes of neonatal breathing difficulties?
- Transient tachypnoea of the newborn
- Sepsis
- Pneumonia
What are the common causes of neonatal blue baby?
- Cyanotic CHD
What are the common causes of neonatal feeding difficulties (>10% WL)?
- Inexperienced mother
What are the common causes of childhood fever?
- URTI
- Viral chest infection
- Otitis media
- Pharyngitis
- Skin infection
- UTI
- Gastroenteritis