National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
With only 1 of the following:
- Unexplained feeding difficulties (for example, refusing to feed, gagging or choking)
- Distressed behaviour
- Faltering growth
- Chronic cough
- Hoarseness
- A single episode of pneumonia.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Consider urinary tract infection in a child aged 3 months or older with fever and 1 or more of the following:
- vomiting
- poor feeding
- lethargy
- irritability
- abdominal pain or tenderness
- urinary frequency or dysuria
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
The committee noted that the evidence supported current practice of not using an aminosalicylate in managing recurrent diverticulitis. Aminosalicylates are not licensed to treat diverticulitis in the UK and there is little evidence to support their use in this area.
The committee agreed that there was insufficient evidence to support the use of antibiotics to prevent recurrent diverticular disease. In support of antibiotic stewardship and to avoid antibiotic resistance the committee ...
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- tachypnoea (respiratory rate greater than 60 breaths per minute, age 0–5 months; greater than 50 breaths per minute, age 6–12 months; greater than 40 breaths per minute, age older than 12 months)
- crackles in the chest
- nasal flaring
- chest indrawing
- cyanosis
- oxygen saturation of 95% or less when breathing air