{"id":267,"date":"2022-12-14T08:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T08:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/?p=267"},"modified":"2022-12-14T08:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T08:19:49","slug":"strep-a-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/2022\/12\/14\/strep-a-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Strep A Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Advice to parents and carers<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Parents and carers may be concerned about scarlet fever and other group A strep infections. Public Health Scotland has published\u00a0<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 class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">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<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><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 class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><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 class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">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 \u00a0 Parents and carers may be concerned about scarlet fever and other group A strep infections. Public Health Scotland has published\u00a0information 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;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/parkhillps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}