A third-grade student refuses to go back to school after the winter break. She now needs her mother to go to sleep with her and complains of headache, bellyache, and muscle pain. The physical exam is totally normal, but you notice the child is very clingy to the mother. The most likely diagnosis is

A third-grade student refuses to go back to school after the winter break. She now needs her mother to go to sleep with her and complains of headache, bellyache, and muscle pain. The physical exam is totally normal, but you notice the child is very clingy to the mother. The most likely diagnosis is

Pediatricians are likely to experience unique problems in managing childhood victims of biologic or chemical attacks. The very rapid onset of neuromuscular symptoms after an exposure should lead the clinician to consider

A significant risk factor in the development of allergic rhinitis in children is

What percentage of allergic rhinitis patients has allergic conjunctivitis?

Recurrent coughing and wheezing occurs in 35% of preschool-age children. Those who continue to have persistent asthma into later childhood are approximately