Table 1 Description of symptoms

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 (24 h) in total.