Hiccups- Give student a glass of water. Tell the student that you are going to stand behind him/her and put your hands over their ears while they drink the entire glass of water. It has worked every time for me.
Nose blowing-For young children with runny noses that don’t know how to blow-I hold a tissue [...]

When my oldest son was 17 or 18 he came to me one day and said his right great toe hurt. It only took a second for me to realize that he had an ingrown toenail. It was red, swollen, and was draining pus. I also note that his toenail had been cut rounded on [...]

The painful pilonidal cyst, perhaps this is where we derived the expression “pain in the butt”.  My first clue when suspecting a pilonidal cyst is when the student states he “I have a pimple or something on the top of my butt crack that hurts”.(I use he because thus far I have seen three students [...]

Symptoms:
The honey colored crust that forms on the sore is one of the symptoms unique to impetigo. Impetigo is one of the most common skin infections. It usually appears around the mouth, nose, neck and hands although it can affect any area of the body. Many children that have habits such as thumb sucking, [...]