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Pain
- abdominal
- back
- bone, muscle, and joint
- chest
- diary
  - chart
  - text
- drug dosages for relief
- headache
- limb
- neck, acute
Parental relationships, resource list
Parenting (see also Behavior; Discipline)
- adoption
- childproofing the home
- day care, helping your child adjust
- divorce, helping children cope
- economics of a new baby
- mother working outside the home, advice for
- moving, helping child adjust
- new father
- new mother
- problems of early parenthood
- remarriage, helping children cope
- resource lists
  - adoption
  - divorce
  - family relationships
  - general
  - moving
  - parental relationships
  - parenting teenagers
  - remarriage and stepparenting
  - sibling of newborn
  - working parents
- sex education for young children
- sexually abused child
- sibling rivalry with newborn
- single parenting
- sleep problems, prevention from 6 months to 2 years
- sleep problems, prevention from birth to 6 months
- stepparenting
- toddler discipline
- toy safety
  - child (age 6 to 9 years)
  - infant (0 to 18 months)
  - preschooler (3 to 6 years)
  - toddler (age 18 months to 3 years)
Paronychia (fingernail infection)
Partial vision loss
Parvovirus (fifth disease)
Passive smoking
- effect on children
- effect on children with asthma
Patellofemoral pain syndrome (runner's knee)
- illustration
- text
Peak flow meter
- record chart
- using the zone system
- using the zone system (for teens)
Peanut allergy
Pediculosis capitis (head lice)
Pediculosis pubis (crab lice)
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
Penis
- circumcision care
- decision to circumcise
- foreskin care and problems
Perthes disease
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Pertussis prevention in teens
Pervasive developmental disorder
- autism
- overview
- resource list
Pes planus
Pets
- death of, resource list
- mistreating
Pharyngitis (sore throat)
Phenobarbital
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Phenylketonuria, newborn screening test
Physical abuse
- effects of family violence on children
- parenting sexually abused child
- protecting children from sexual assault
- shaken baby syndrome
Physical disability, resource list
Physical fighting and spitting
Physical punishment
Physician visits (see also Forms)
- comforting your child
- making visits easier
- preparation for calling a physician
- resource list
Physiologic heart murmur
Picky eaters
Pierced-ear infection
Pigeon toe
Pimple
Pink eye -- See Conjunctivitis
Pinworm
Pityriasis alba
Pityriasis rosea
PKU (phenylketonuria)
Play
- independent
- social play
- sports and children
- toy safety and materials
Pneumonia
- admission and discharge instructions
- general guidelines
Pneumothorax in newborn
Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac
- illustration
Poisoning
- general guidelines
- prevention
Poisonous plants
Poking and stalling about dressing
Polio vaccine
- reactions
- schedule
Pool safety, diarrhea
Portuguese man-of-war or jellyfish sting
Position for sleep for young infants
Positional plagiocephaly
Postinfectious arthritis
Postnasal drip
Postpartum blues
Postpartum breast engorgement
Precocious puberty
- boys
- girls
Precordial catch syndrome
Pregnancy prevention
Premature baby
- anemia
- apnea
- care of infant weighing less than 3 pounds
- infection
- intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH)
- resource list
- respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- transient tachypnea (TTN)
Preparation for calling a physician
Preschool
- preparing for the first day
- resource list
Prevention
- aggressive behavior
- animal bites
- baby walker injuries
- bicycle safety
- burns
- childproofing the home
- choking
- diarrhea from contaminated pool water
- drowning
- electrical shock
- flu shot
- head injury
- heat reactions
- heat, smoke, and carbon monoxide detectors
- hot water temperature
- immunizations
  - travel
- lead poisoning
- passive smoking
- poisoning
- pregnancy
- sexually transmitted disease
- sleep problems, 6 months to 2 years
- sleep problems, infant
- spoiled children
- suffocation of infants and toddlers
- sunburn
- tooth decay
- trampoline injuries
- whooping cough in teens
Pseudostuttering
Psychotherapy
- how to choose a therapist
Puberty
- for boys
- for girls
- precocious
  - boys
  - girls
Public places
- rules and discipline for misbehavior
- teaching good behavior
Pulling at ear
Puncture wound
Punishment -- See Discipline
Purpura, anaphylactoid
- admission and discharge instructions
- general guidelines
Pyelonephritis (kidney infection)
- admission and discharge instructions
- general guidelines
Pyloric stenosis
Pyloric stenosis, discharge instructions

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