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Home Treatment Tips
Learn about at home treatments for common medical conditions and symptoms, like vomiting, colds, sprains, strains, etc.
Treatments for Vomiting and Diarrhea
Review how to take care of your child with diarrhea and vomiting and how to tell if they are getting dehydrated.
Reducing Your Child's Fever
Review how to lower your child's temperature when they have a fever, especially when they won't take medicine, such as Tylenol or Motrin.
Treating Sprains and Strains
Learn how to treat your child's sprains and strains using RICE - rest, ice, compession, elevation, and then rehabilitation.
Cold and Flu Treatments
Typically, parents are told to just treat the symptoms of a cold or the flu and make their child comfortable, because these common infections are caused by viruses and there are no treatments. While symptomatic treatments are important to help your child feel better, this is not totally true anymore. There are many medications available now to help treat the flu.
