Time for the doctor

By Amity Dry
Updated February 22 2013 - 9:23am, first published July 18 2012 - 12:31pm
Feeling poorly ... knowing when it's time to take your sick child to the doctor can save you a lot of worry.
Feeling poorly ... knowing when it's time to take your sick child to the doctor can save you a lot of worry.

It’s an unfortunate reality that babies and young children, particularly toddlers, get sick pretty frequently. It seems to happen most often between the ages of  one and two years, when they're putting everything in their mouth, going to childcare or playgroup and mixing more with older kids, all while building up their immunity. The winter when my first child was around this age I visited the GP so many times I jokingly asked if they had a frequent patient system, with my tenth visit for free!

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