Keep your child home. Most schools and medical experts recommend your child miss school if their body temperature rises above ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its advice that kids get an annual flu shot at a time when flu cases ...

The kids are back to school, and that could mean trips back to the doctor as illnesses start to spread throughout the household. “But it's very important that parents know that young kids get sick,” ...

SAN ANTONIO – Pediatric doctors in San Antonio say 2025 brought a familiar post-COVID pattern: more childhood viruses emerging outside their usual seasons and some infections hitting harder than they ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Schools often promote student sick day guidelines advising parents to send children to school with colds. Many ...

Kids are really the germiest members of the household. In case you didn’t know that from experience, new research published in the journal Pediatrics confirmed that respiratory viruses circulate ...

If the flu or other viruses have hit your family, then you know how miserable it can be. When you’re a mom, you’re likely to ...

This year, respiratory illnesses are on the rise, and our family has added to that count more than once. Well, most of our family. You see, I’m sick in bed — because my kid has coughed, sneezed and, ...

Genexa, the first clean medicine brand, founded by parents to transform the medicine aisle, today released its 2025 State of the Sick Day. A national YouGov survey commissioned by Genexa, of 1,000 U.S ...

Some Maryland health experts are concerned about new federal language on the flu shot that could lead to more children ...

Plenty of people – about 1 in 3, according to some studies — feel bad for a day or two after they get a flu shot. The most common symptoms include headaches, muscle aches, fatigue and fever, all of ...