Random Peds Clinic Info

• Umbilical cord stumps fall off between 1-3 weeks after birth; keep them dry and not super clean because the bacteria help the cord seperate.
• Little mobile bumps are pretty common on baby heads.
• With crushed fingers worry about infection or compound fractures. Tendons usually okay if can move the finger, but still may have spiral fracture.
• Enteroviruses are polio, echo, coxsackie.
• Herpangina has lesions in the front part of the mouth while coxsackie lesions are more posterior.