Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
Managing summer’s crop of itchy red bumps on the skin
Managing summer’s crop of itchy red bumps on the skin
Maggie brings her 12-year-old son Hunter into the pharmacy; his legs are covered in bites. The bites are mainly around his ankles, but he has a few in a straight line on his stomach. They have just returned from the Milford Track, but they then stayed with a friend who has a dog, so she is not sure whether the bites are from sandflies, mosquitoes, bedbugs or even fleas. She asks you how you can tell and what you would recommend putting on them as they are very itchy.
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