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Malaria
- shots for protection when you travel
Mantoux test for tuberculosis (TB)
Marijuana
Marine animal bites and stings
Martin-Bell syndrome
Massage, infant
Mastitis
Masturbation in preschoolers
Mattery eye
Meal planning
Measles
- general guidelines
- vaccine
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine
- rash
- reactions
- schedule
Medical procedures, comforting your child during
Medicine (see also Asthma)
- first aid kit
- form for medicines needed at school or day care
- help with swallowing
- home medicine chest
- overuse
- phenobarbital
- preventing unnecessary use of antibiotics
- safe use
Meningitis
- bacterial
  - admission and discharge instructions
  - general guidelines
- in newborn
- viral
Menstrual cramps
Menstrual period
- late or missed
- puberty for girls
Mental health professionals
Mental illness
- depression in children and teens
- resource list
Mental retardation
- Down syndrome
- fragile X syndrome
- general guidelines
- resource list
Metered-dose inhaler (MDI)
- how to use
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- use with a collapsible bag spacer
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- use with a spacer
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Methylphenidate
Middle ear fluid
Migraine headache
Milia (newborn rash)
Miliaria
Milk
- allergy
- calcium needs for children and teens
- cow's milk
- instructions for making high-calorie milk
- let-down reflex in breast-feeding
- sources of calcium in food
Misbehavior -- See Behavior; Discipline
Molding of newborn head
Mole
Molluscum contagiosum
Mongolian spots
Mononucleosis
- admission and discharge instructions
- general guidelines
Mother working outside the home
- general guidelines
- resource list
Mother, new parent
Motion sickness
Mountain sickness
Mouth problems and procedures
- bad breath
- canker sore
- cleft lip, cleft palate
- cold sore
- geographic tongue
- herpangina
- herpetic gingivostomatitis
- impetigo
- lip, swollen (local allergic reaction)
- mouth injury
- teeth injuries
- teething
- thrush
- tongue-tie
- tonsil and adenoid surgery
- tooth decay prevention
- tooth grinding (bruxism)
- toothache
Mouth ulcer
Movies, fears from
Moving
- helping a child adjust
- resource list
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus)
Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
Mumps
Murmur
- innocent
Muscle
- injury
- pain or strain
Muscular dystrophy

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