Common childhood illnesses
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advice or treatment for any specific medical condition
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Common cold
The common cold is regarded as the most common illness in
small children. The child’s immune system is not fully developed
until he reaches the age of five years.
Hence a child may catch a
cold several times in one year. Cold symptoms include runny
nose, watery eyes, sore throat, cough, sneezing and low-‐grade
fever.
There are more than two hundred
viruses that can affect the
upper respiratory tract, which leads to a cold.
The cold is a mild respiratory illness caused by one of these
viruses.
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