From: Intestinal microbiota composition after antibiotic treatment in early life: the INCA study
Coughing | Your infant coughs several times a day and/or has coughing. Regularly there are signs of cold. Don’t record cough because of choking. |
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Wheezing | During expiration you notice a whistling, wheezy sound coming from the lower airways. During expiration your child is trying to squeeze the air outwards. Don’t record wheezing coming from or through the nose. |
Fever >38 °C | Clear from itself, whereby it is important you use a rectal thermometer, measure twice and the temperature is >38 °C on both occasions. |
Runny nose | Signs of cold with white/yellow/green mucus running from the nose; |
Glue ear | Your child seems to have earache and/or grasps its ear (the ear frequently is high-colored or bends) and/or glue egresses from the ear. |
Rash | More than one day existing skin-redness (spots, rash, pimples) on the face, arms or legs, trunk. Disease-symptoms are not necessarily present. The rash can be eczema; eczema mostly is red, moistly, scaly and may itch. Infants cheeks are affected mostly. When children grow up, elbow and knees are preferred sites. |
Diarrhea | Increase in stool frequency to twice the usual number per day, that continues more than one day. The content may be watery or mucous. |
>3 crying hours a day | Clear from itself, whereby the total crying episodes add up to more than three hours a day (24Â h) in total. |