Critical Component: Caregiver Education

Question 1

Caregiver education

Answer 1

• difficulty breathing
• refusal to lie down
• blue, gray, or purple tint on lips and skin
• fever associated with difficulty breathing or abnormal skin color (pallor, bluish tinge, exceptionally pink)
• Fever with a headache or stiff neck
• Behavior changes such as lethargy, acting withdrawn, or becoming more unresponsive
• seizure activity in a child not known to have seizures with out a plan for managing seizures
• purple or red rash thats spreading quickly (rash that does not blanch -petechia)
• dehydration accompanied by lethargy, sunken eyes, no tears in an infant older than 2 months, decreased urine output
• vomiting blood or blood in stool