A comprehensive and reassuring family guide for all the sneezes, wheezes and common diseases!

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A comprehensive and reassuring family guide for all the sneezes, wheezes and common diseases!

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An illustrated, easy to digest children's health book that is broken down into bite-sized sections and easy to find chapters.

What does the book cover?

Dr Golly’s Guide to Family Illness is reassuring guide to general children’s health and daycare illnesses: from common colds to ear infections.

Dr Daniel Golshevsky – also known as Dr Golly – is a paediatrician and father of three who knows first-hand how exhausting and overwhelming all the rashes, coughs and sniffles of childhood can be.

He’s here to help you learn

when to be worried,
how to recognise symptoms and,
most importantly, what to do next and when to seek help.

Dr Golly’s Guide to Family Illness covers EVERYTHING you need to know:

what to do when your child is sick, and how to tell if it’s an emergency
what to keep at home
warning signs of severe illness
when to seek medical help
feeling better and staying well
plus, how to recognise and treat common childcare illnesses

No-one knows your child like you do. Dr Golly reminds parents that this book does not replace medical care. If you suspect something isn’t right, trust your parental instincts and contact a healthcare professional.

This book is perfect for:

First Time Parents

Particularly those starting their children at childcare or kinder

Parents in the thick of it

Managing illness is hard, this is the go-to book for all parents in merry-go-round of childhood illness

Baby Showers!

You'll be the toast of the party if you arrive with a copy of this book; it's the most practical gift.

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Dr Daniel Golshevsky (Author)

Dr Daniel Golshevsky (also known as Dr Golly) is a paediatrician and father of three who has spent years working with thousands of families and their babies. With so many demands on new parents, navigating children’s health and daycare illnesses can feel overwhelming. Through his books and programs he shares useful and practical advice to take the guess work out of parenthood.

If sleep is a concern, Dr Golly’s revolutionary Sleep Programs have helped thousands of parents establish happy, steady rhythms with their babies.

Cora Muccitelli (illustrator)

Cora is an illustrator and designer based in Surrey, UK. This is her fourth illustrated book (the first was Dr Golly’s guide to the first four weeks of parenting, Your Baby Doesn’t Come With A Book).

Cora’s illustrations bring clarity and humour to Dr Golly’s book and as a mother of two herself, she has drawn from her own experience of juggling sick children (and wishes this book existed back then!)