NHS warns parents to avoid 3 things when helping children with a common symptom

To tackle this, parents may be tempted to clean the ears with cotton buds, but the NHS advises against this approach. Instead, it's worth considering the use of painkillers, like paracetamol or ...
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A&Es under siege from hiccups and ingrowing toenails

Hundreds of thousands of patients attended A&E last winter for everyday niggles such as hiccups and ingrowing nails, according to shocking new NHS data. There were more than 200,000 A&E attendances ...

Patients clogging A&E with hiccups, sore throats and other niggles

Patients are being warned not to clog up A&E with everyday niggles as NHS figures show thousands turned to hospitals for ...

NHS warning as 200,000 visit A&E for hiccups, sore throats and blocked noses

More than 200,000 people were treated in A&E last year for conditions which could have been dealt with elsewhere, including ...