Sickness

Asthma is a common lung condition that affects 1 in 9 Australians. Essentially, people who suffer from asthma have sensitive airways that narrow because their small airways become swollen and inflamed. As you can imagine, this makes it super tricky...

Ever experienced lengthy periods where your little one just cries and cries? You’re not alone, and there’s actually a term for that! Colic babies can be described as babies who cry a lot or fail to settle for a lengthy...

  It’s 11 pm on a Thursday night, and I’ve been dispatched to a code 1 (bells and whistles) to a four-year-old with difficulty breathing. As soon as I walk through the front door, I can hear the tell-tale barking...

I am often asked, “why paediatric nursing?” How can you bear it? Isn’t it sad working with sick children every day? Well, the answer is yes. It is sad seeing babies and children who are unwell and injured. And often...

On the the 25th of August Jazymn was her normal, bright, bubbly and carefree self. At 10pm that evening Jazz had come down with a high temperature of 39 degrees and flu like symptoms. Jazmyn’s mother Sarah Parkyn believed that...

Everything You Need to Know About the Cold Sore Virus and your Baby After writing about my own experience as a mum when Nahla caught the cold sore virus, I had so many of you reach out with questions of...