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What is are temper tantrums?
Common in children 1-4 years of age as they learn to express desires and fustrations, management focuses on protecting the child and others from harm and helping the child develop appropriate forms of expression.
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What is 1-2 months old?
By this age, a child recognizes parents.
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What is 3 years old?
By this age, a child builds a tower of 9-10 blocks and rides a tricycle.
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What is 3 years old?
By this age, a child uses 3-word phrases and knows their own name.
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What is a hearing evaluation?
Every child with delay in speech milestones should undergo one.
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What is breath holding?
Associated with IDA, this involuntary response to minor injury or anger in which LOC may occur usually resolves by 6 years of age.
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What is 5 years old?
By this age, a child displays magical thinking.
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What is 1 year old?
By this age, a child walks independently and stacks 2 cubes.
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What is 1-2 months old?
By this age a child vocalizes.
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What is the Cover test?
In an abnormal test, when the dominant eye is covered, the weaker eye will move to focus on an object.
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What is Strabismus?
While this may occur in infants up to 5 to 6 months of age, persistence may be initially treated with patching and exercises but may also need surgical correction.
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What is 6-8 months old?
By this age, stranger anxiety begins and the child sleeps through the night.
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What is 6-8 months old?
By this age, a child rolls from back to stomach, sits alone briefly, and passes objects between hands.
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What is 2 years old?
By this age, half of speech is comprehensible.
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What are intranasal desmopressin and imipramine?
Two pharmacologic therapies for enuresis.
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What are nightmares?
Most common in children 3-5 years of age, this phenomenon can occur in REM sleep in up to 50% of children.
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What is 18 months old?
By this age, stranger anxiety peaks.
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What is 1-2 months old?
By this age, a child rolls from side to back and holds head up.
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What is 1 year old?
By ths age a child uses "mama" and "dada" appropriately.
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What is encopresis?
Physiologic causes for this include dehydration, lack of stool bulk, anal fissue, GI disorders, and metabolic disorders such as hypothyroidism.
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What is colic?
This phenomenon is known by the "the rule of 3s": 3 hours a day, 3 days a week, for 3 weeks or more.
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What is 2 years old?
By this age, stranger anxiety subsides.
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What is 18 months old?
By this age, a child throws a ball and uses stairs with help.
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What is 9-11 months old?
By this age a child develops object permanence and follows 1-word commands.
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What is developmental delay?
Workup for this includes a physical exam for features of genetic syndromes, possible chromosome analysis and fragile X testing, lead levels, and testing of cognitive and adaptive skills.
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