What symptoms need medical attention?
Changes in your child’s behavior, changes in his activity level, or other symptoms that worry you are reasons to call the doctor. • Changes in color (paleness or bluish color around the lips, face, or nails; yellowish skin or eyes) • Body becomes unusually floppy or stiff • One or both eyes are pink, red, swollen, or leaking sticky fluid • Navel is red or tender • White patches in the mouth • Difficulty breathing, swallowing, nursing, eating, or speaking • Blood in the stools or vomit • Crying for a long time, child can’t be comforted • Refusal to eat • Unusually cranky or tired • Chills that make the body shake • Loses consciousness for a period (child faints, has a seizure, etc.) • Severe headache • Nasal fluid is strange color, smells bad, or is bloody • Earache • Hearing loss • Blood or fluid coming out of the mouth or ears • Changes in vision, eyes are hurt by light • Stiffness or pain in the neck • Severe sore throat, uncontrolled drooling • Rapid breathing • Severe cough, cough
