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• Acid and chemical burns

  Find out about acid and chemical burns including what causes them, where to get help, how to do first aid, and how they're treated.

• Japanese encephalitis

  Find out about Japanese encephalitis including who's most at risk of getting it, how to avoid it, what the symptoms are and how it's treated.

• Febrile seizures

  Find out about febrile seizures (febrile convulsions or fits), which can sometimes happen when a child has a high temperature (fever).

• Epiglottitis

  Find out about epiglottitis, where the flap that covers your windpipe when you swallow (the epiglottis) becomes swollen and covers your windpipe, making it difficult to breathe.

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

  Find out about acute respiratory distress syndrome, including who’s at risk of getting it, the symptoms, how it’s treated and what causes it.

• Blood transfusion

  Find out about blood transfusions, what they are, why they are done and what happens during the procedure.

• Heart attack

  Find out about heart attacks, a serious medical emergency in which the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly blocked, usually by a blood clot.

• Heat exhaustion and heatstroke

  Heat exhaustion and heatstroke can happen if you get too hot. They can be serious. They usually happen during a heatwave or in a hot climate, but can also be caused by very intense exercise.

• Expressing and storing breast milk

  Everything you need to know about expressing and storing your breast milk, including tips on hand expressing and electric breast pumps, and how to freeze, defrost and warm breast milk.

• Legionnaires' disease

  Find out more about Legionnaires' disease, an uncommon but serious lung infection you can get from inhaling droplets of water containing bacteria that cause the infection.