Is the child asthmatic?

Yes No

Call the pediatrician or seek urgent care.

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Has this child been diagnosed with chronic bronchitis?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or pediatrician.

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Is the child experiencing severe difficulty breathing?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or the emergency room.

Would you like to see the nearest children's emergency room or Continue?

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Any wheezing sound while breathing?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or emergency room.

Would you like to see the nearest emergency room to you or Continue?

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Does the child have a fever ( over 104°F ? )

And this fever is not coming down?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or emergency room.

Like to see the nearest emergency room to you or Continue?

ER Continue

What about a fever that returned after being gone for 24 hours?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or emergency room.

Like to see the nearest emergency room to you or Continue?

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If you answered "No" so far, you may not have to go to the emergency room.

At least not for now. We are not out of the woods yet.

Just a few more questions.

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Very low temperature

Are you sure the child is running a temperature?

Would you like to continue or enter another temperature value?

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Normal or Low grade.

Older children with colds generally have a low fever or no fever.

Young children often run a fever around 100-102°F

Sometimes a low-grade fever can help your child get rid of the cold virus quicker.

Would you like to see the nearest children's urgent care clinic to you or Continue?

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Temperature is rising

Older children with colds generally have a low fever or no fever.

Young children often run a fever around 100-102°F

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Temperature is high.

You should call the pediatrician right away. Your child may be looking at the flu or something else.

Your child may be looking at the flu or something else.

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Very high temperature!

Call the pediatrician right away or take the child to the emergency room.

If your child is under 6 yrs, this high fever may be accompanied by a seizure. If this happens, lay your child on his or her side and call 911 if this is the first seizure or if it is lasting longer than 5 minutes.

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Yes?

Does the child pull on the ear?

Or complain of earache if child can talk?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or call the pediatrician.

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Is the child complaining of headache in addition to this fever?

Yes No

Yes?

What about severe body ache with this fever?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or emergency room.

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Are you looking at a child that look very sick?

Warning
If the child cannot talk but is crying and cannot be calmed down, regard that as a child that is very sick.

Yes No

Seek urgent care or emergency room.

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Does the child have a sore throat or headache?

But DOES NOT have runny nose, sneezing or nasal congestion?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or call the pediatrician.

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With this fever, any cough plus yellow / green mucus?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or call the pediatrician.

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Any diarrhea, nausea and/or vomiting?

Or headache / body ache?

Yes No

Seek urgent care or emergency room.

Suspect stomach flu if there is no runny nose, sneezing or nasal congestion.

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Those were causes of fever that mimics cold symptoms.

If you still think you are looking at a cold, let's continue.
Otherwise, would you like to see the nearest urgent care clinic to you?

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Alright.
A few more questions before seeing the pharmacist's over-the-counter recommendation.

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None of these?
Your child may not have a cold.

Would you like to continue with cold or check out something else?

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You said itchy eyes, nose, throat, or ear.

If that's the case, your child may be looking at an allergy situation .

If it started all of a sudden, then it is most likely allergy. We recommend you visit the allergy section for more information.

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Pain around eyes?
Probably looking at Sinusitis. Child's sinuses may be inflammed.

Suspect sinusitis if child also has headache and dry cough.

If that is the case, you should give the pediatrician a call or visit the nearest urgent care clinic.

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Just starting?

Alright, let's continue to see what a Pharmacist recommend using over the counter for this cold.

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Getting full blown.

Alright, let us continue to see what a Pharmacist recommend using over the counter for the cold.

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Sinus infection territory

It would be better to see a doctor. If symptoms are not improving, your child may be looking at a sinus infection.

Let us continue to see what to use over-the-counter for now until the child can see a doctor.

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Let's see what to use over the counter to manage this cold.

Expand on what to expect and so on.

Or would you like to go to the nearest children urgent care center to you from the discussions so far?

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Just a pain reliever?
Let's see what to use over the counter to manage this cold.

Expand on what to expect and so on.

Or would you like to go to the nearest children's urgent care center to you from the discussions so far?

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None of these?
We must have left some things out.

Anyway, let's continue to see what a pharmacist recommend you do to help your child get over the cold.

Or would you like to go to the nearest children's urgent care center to you from the discussions so far?

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