The Baby Who Turned Blue While Feeding
Cyanotic spells worsened by feeding or crying with a systolic murmur.
FREEOpen Mystery →👶 Paediatrics
Fifty story-driven cases selected across the core chapters of Paediatrics. Titles conceal the diagnosis; each story ends with the reveal, key learning points and a take-home message.
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The Murmur That Came With Poor Weight Gain
Pansystolic murmur with tachypnea, sweating during feeds and poor growth.
FREEOpen Mystery →The Pulse Missing From the Legs
Upper-limb hypertension with weak/delayed femoral pulses.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Fever That Inflamed the Coronaries
Prolonged fever with mucocutaneous inflammation and cervical lymphadenopathy.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Cough That Sounded Like a Seal
Barking cough, hoarseness and inspiratory stridor after viral prodrome.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Suddenly Could Not Breathe After Peanuts
Sudden cough or choking with unilateral wheeze or reduced air entry.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Wheeze That Kept Coming Back
Recurrent variable wheeze, cough and breathlessness with triggers.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Infant Breathing Fast in Winter
Coryza followed by tachypnea, wheeze/crackles and feeding difficulty in an infant.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Fever With a Silent Chest
Fever, respiratory distress and focal reduced air entry or consolidation.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Coughed for Weeks and Lost Weight
Persistent cough, weight loss or poor growth with tb exposure.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Diarrhea That Took Away the Pulse
Profuse diarrhea with lethargy, poor perfusion and reduced urine output.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Blood in Stool After Antibiotics Was Not the Story
Episodic colicky pain, vomiting and red currant jelly stool.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Vomiting Baby With an Olive
Progressive projectile non-bilious vomiting with hunger after feeds.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Newborn Who Never Passed Meconium
Delayed meconium passage, distension and explosive stool after rectal examination.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Became Yellow After Fava Beans
Acute jaundice and anemia after oxidative trigger.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Pale Child Who Ate Mud
Pallor, pica and microcytic anemia with dietary risk.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child With Recurrent Painful Hands
Pain crises, dactylitis or anemia with infection susceptibility.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Bruises With a Normal Child Between Episodes
Petechiae and bruising after viral illness with isolated thrombocytopenia.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Fever With Bone Pain and Too Many Blasts
Fever, pallor, bruising, bone pain and cytopenias/blasts.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Abdominal Mass That Crossed the Midline
Firm abdominal mass, systemic symptoms and possible catecholamine effects.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Kidney Mass Found During a Bath
Painless abdominal mass in a young child, usually not crossing midline.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Headache That Was Worst in the Morning
Morning headache, vomiting, ataxia or papilledema.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Fever With a Stiff Neck
Fever, altered behavior, neck stiffness or bulging fontanelle.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Seizure That Followed a Fever
Generalized brief seizure with fever in a neurologically normal young child.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Stared and Came Back Instantly
Frequent brief staring spells with abrupt onset and immediate recovery.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Schoolboy Who Became Clumsy and Weak
Proximal weakness, gowers sign and calf pseudohypertrophy.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Toddler Who Lost Words He Already Knew
Persistent social-communication differences with restricted/repetitive behavior and developmental regression concerns.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Could Not Sit Still Anywhere
Developmentally inappropriate inattention and/or hyperactivity across more than one setting.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Short Child With a Normal Mind
Poor linear growth with preserved or increased weight and delayed bone age.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Tall Glucose Reading in a Thin Child
Polyuria, polydipsia, weight loss and hyperglycemia.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Deep Breathing That Was Not Pneumonia
Polyuria followed by vomiting, dehydration and kussmaul breathing.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Was Always Cold and Constipated
Prolonged jaundice, lethargy, constipation or developmental risk.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Salt-Losing Newborn With Ambiguous Genitalia
Vomiting, dehydration, hyponatremia/hyperkalemia with virilization in some infants.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Puffy Eyes That Came After a Sore Throat
Cola urine, edema and hypertension after streptococcal infection.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Puffy Child With Frothy Urine
Generalized edema, heavy proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child With Fever and Red Urine After Diarrhea
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and aki after diarrheal illness.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Urine Infection That Kept Returning
Recurrent febrile utis in a child.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Limp That Followed a Viral Fever
Acute limp or hip pain after viral illness with well appearance.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Limp With Fever That Could Not Wait
Fever with severe joint pain, restricted movement and inability to bear weight.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Purple Rash That Hurt the Abdomen
Palpable purpura on legs with abdominal pain, arthralgia and possible renal involvement.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Fever That Would Not End and the Joints That Swelled
Quotidian fever with arthritis and evanescent rash.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Swelled After a Bee Sting
Rapid multisystem allergic reaction with airway, breathing or circulatory compromise.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Rash That Started Behind the Ears
Fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis and descending morbilliform rash.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Weakness That Climbed Upward
Progressive symmetric weakness with reduced reflexes after infection.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Floppy Baby With a Bright Mind
Hypotonia and symmetric proximal weakness with preserved alertness.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Child Who Drank Kerosene
Coughing or respiratory symptoms after kerosene ingestion.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Tablets That Made the Child Sweat and Bradycardic
Salivation, lacrimation, diarrhea, miosis, bronchorrhea and bradycardia.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Fever With Shock and a Strawberry Tongue
High fever, hypotension, diffuse rash and multisystem involvement.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Newborn Who Became Yellow on Day One
Jaundice within first 24 hours or rapidly rising bilirubin.
🔒 PREMIUMOpen Mystery →The Preterm Baby Who Suddenly Needed More Oxygen
Prematurity with early grunting, retractions and oxygen requirement.
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