Earlier this year, I saw a 13 year old child with an unusual complaint. He presented with nasal blockage that was entirely left sided and told me that his nose “was only blocked when he breathed out”. Truly enough in clinic he demonstrated to me that he could breathe in through his left nostril without difficult but could not breathe out. He…
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In the past few weeks, two children have been brought to see me by anxious parents worried about the apparent asymmetry in their children’s tonsils. In both cases the condition was spotted by the primary care doctors. The tonsils sit in the back of the throat. In most patients these tonsils are similar in size. Rarely, there is a significant difference in…
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Hearing loss is common in children and may often go unnoticed. Just a few days ago a parent brought a child to see me for a sore throat. The child, she said also had a wax problem for which her family physician had attempted syringing. Her mother said that there was no hearing loss. I enquired about speech development which had been…
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