Introduction: Health knowledge seeking behaviour is increasing throughout the world. Our study is trying to fi nd out this attitude among parents of children with pneumonia. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted to analyse all admitted children with pneumonia at Dhulikhel Hospital from September 1, 2006 to August 31, 2007. “Duration of illness at home prior to hospital presentation” was taken as the index of health seeking behaviour of the parents. Results: The mean duration of illness prior to hospital presentation for males and females were 4.40 days and 4.16 days respectively (P>0.05). Children who had been hospitalised in the past had a mean of 4.93 days; those never hospitalised before had 4.08 days (P>0.05). Children from Bhaktapur and Kathmandu were brought to the hospital the earliest. Younger children were brought to the hospital sooner; children less than fi ve years were brought earlier, particularly infants.Conclusions: Health seeking behaviour of the parents is affected by age of the children and geographical location. However, previous hospitalisation of the child and their gender do not affect health seeking behaviour of the parents. Key Words: children, health seeking behaviour, paediatrics
Thyroglossal cyst is the most common congenital neck anomaly in children with equal sex incidence, but papillary carcinoma of the thyroglossal cyst in children is rare with only 10 cases reported so far. Even in adults, the incidence of malignancy in the thyroglossal cyst is only 1%. Most cases are diagnosed following surgery on histopathological examination; there is no consensus on the management owing to this rarity and indolent but unpredictable behavior of thyroid cancers. Here, we present one such rare case.
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