{"id":691,"date":"2022-12-20T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/?p=691"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:31:35","slug":"advice-for-parents-and-carers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/2022\/12\/20\/advice-for-parents-and-carers\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Parents and Carers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Advice to parents and carers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parents and carers may be concerned about scarlet fever and other group A strep infections. Public Health Scotland has published <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthscotland.scot\/news\/2022\/december\/new-data-on-group-a-strep-in-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"0\">information about the situation in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It can be difficult to tell the difference between a minor illness which can be cared for safely at home, and the small number of infections that are more serious and require specific medical treatment. NHS Inform is a reliable resource for health advice, including how to safely look after unwell children, when to seek medical advice, and what to look out for. In particular:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/illnesses-and-conditions\/infections-and-poisoning\/streptococcus-a-strep-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Group A strep information and advice<\/a>, which also links to information specifically about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/illnesses-and-conditions\/infections-and-poisoning\/scarlet-fever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"2\">scarlet fever<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/self-help-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Self-help guides<\/a>\u00a0for illnesses, including for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/self-help-guides\/self-help-guide-sore-throat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"4\">sore throat<\/a><\/li>\n<li>General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsfife.org\/news-updates\/campaigns-and-projects\/winter-advice\/stay-well-this-winter\/winter-ailments-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"5\">winter ailments<\/a>\u00a0advice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice to parents and carers Parents and carers may be concerned about scarlet fever and other group A strep infections. Public Health Scotland has published information about the situation in Scotland. It can be difficult to tell the difference between a minor illness which can be cared for safely at home, and the small number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/2022\/12\/20\/advice-for-parents-and-carers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advice for Parents and Carers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/northqueensferryprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}