Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 1.5: Understand how to support children who are unwell
Learning outcome: 1. Know common childhood illnesses
Assessment criteria: 1.2 Describe signs and symptoms of common childhood illnesses
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- Cold – fever, runny nose, sneezing, coughing
- Influenza (flu) – fever, headache, tired, aching muscles, chesty cough, sore throat
- Diarrhea/vomiting
- Ear infections – fever, pulling/rubbing ear, crying
- Tonsilitis – sore throat, fever, headache, white spots on tonsils
- Whooping cough – begins like a cold but turns to intense coughing which brings up phlegm and may lead to vomiting
- Chickenpox – mild fever and headache, itchy pink spots on skin all over body that turn to blisters
- Measles – cold-like symptoms, blotchy red rash on face, grey spots in mouth and throat, sensitivity to light
- German measles (rubella) – mild fever, rash of pink spots
- Mumps – cold-like symptoms followed by swelling of glands around throat
- Scabies – tiny, itchy rash, babies may get blisters on feet
- Hand, foot and mouth – fever, cough, mouth ulcers, sore throat, lethargy
- Impetigo – red sores/blisters around nose and mouth and on chest, may burst leaving yellow crust
- Scarlet fever – cold-like symptoms, rash of rough red blotches
- Meningitis – severe headache and fever, cold hands/feet,, crying sensitivity to light, tiredness, nausea, vomiting, fast breathing, bltchy red rash
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